Over at LGF, things aren’t going so great. Lots of internal politics, splits, recriminations and all that kind of crap. Nothing new there, you get this in any community, chat board, weblog or newsgroup. Why? Who knows, it just happens to any group of people that forge a community, sometimes it doesn’t work out. But take a bunch of haters, put them in the same room and see what happens. Now we’re talking.
In the meantime, I’ve been fairly busy at LGFwatch, as have some others. Luckily, we’ve yet to see the arrival of the entity calling himself “Iron Fist”. If you’ve never heard of him, be glad, he’s not the kind of person you want hanging around your kids – not in the Michael Jackson way, but in the general ‘fruitloop’ way.
Lizard Hunter writes: Yes, he is a sad figure. But he’s not the story — the story is the coverup at LGF. I’ve been on sites like LGFwatch and have had a few discussions with folks, I’ve yet to see a defence for this guy.
Anyway, here’s the reply I was hoping to make to the Lizard Hunter in the comments section, but can you believe my own site was rejecting it due to ‘inappropriate content’? Methinks I’ve overegged my own pudding when it comes to content scanning, must turn that down this weekend.
I still can’t figure out why Charles acts the way he does. He condemns crimes every day on his blog, yet lets this one twat get away with describing how he intends to knife people? All under a banner of free speech? IF has got something on Charles, he must have..
Thinking about this, I did a google search for the standard ‘Web Site created by LGF web design”. Not much, no sign of the credit text so beloved by web site designers. Tried a few variations on that search – no joy. Chuck Johnson must be one of the few HTML coders that doesn’t need business development. Maybe he’s working on a private contract or else getting another source of income apart from his company. I couldn’t find a single web site that akcnowledged being designed by LGF apart from Charles’ own blog. Strange, eh?
Now, with the split between DL and LGL the Iron Fist crowd are going to be even more obnoxious.
I can’t see anywhere left for IF to go to. He’s been shown to be a grade-a asshole for months now, at this stage he’s starting to erode what’s left of LGF’s credibility(!). I don’t think the DL crowd would want him hanging around with his ‘dark malevolent laugh’ or whatever. Now that posters are leaving for DL and Charles has delinked them for supporting his so-called stalkers I think the end is near. Too much water under this particular bridge, and a lot of it smells pretty rank.
Well, Johnson is pulling down $1000-2000 a week in blogad revenue (except when he has to decline an ad, as with the Cuban-cigar fiasco) — and that’s not counting his donations.
At this point, LGF is his business.
Hi Vaara – didn’t know blogads could pull down that much for a site, but I suppose Johnson is getting a shitload of eyeballs over his adverts. Don’t see them myself, since firefox and adblock (http://adblock.mozdev.org/) do a great job, apart from the frames based ones.
Still, with donations he must be pulling in $2500 a week at least, all in the name of promoting hatred. Even though I’m a wee bit jealous of the income, he’s paying a pretty high price. I normally have to leave LGF alone for a few days since the non-stop hatred makes me feel dirty. Imagine being immersed in that all day long, every day? Not good for your mental health.
It’s easy enough to check the rates — just enable graphics and then click the “Advertise Here” links.
The “premium” ads cost $750/week (a bit less on a monthly or [ha!] yearly basis), and the other cost $250. One premium ad plus 5 non-premium ads comes to $2000/week — not bad for a site that consists of one-liners, lengthy pull-quotes, and comments. And that’s not even counting donations.
CJ will never reveal how much he rakes in in donations — glasnost is for other people — but he’s clearly pulling down six figures. And he has the nerve to call all those other ink-stained wretches — whose work actually has to be, you know, good — the “élite.”
But as you say, he does pay a pretty high price. Even if he wanted to, he couldn’t possibly pull another post-9/11 style flip-flop, because then the purveyors of Christian T-shirts and “politically incorrect” tai-chi programs and Iraqi dinars would abandon him.