• It's Fish Wrapper, Not Weed Wrapper

    In your maudlin Monday media column: Magazines fail at drug-smuggling, sad layoffs at Videogum and Boston Magazine, newspaper reporters in Canada may strike(!), the NYT pokes the WaPo, and an update on the Milwaukee journalist-cop affair scandal.

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    The talented Lindsay Robertson has been laid off from Videogum, the site she helped to co-launch. Her last day will be in a week or two. That leaves Gabe Delahaye as the last editorial employee at Videogum (Scott Lapatine and Amrit Singh remain at Stereogum, its musical counterpart). The owner of the site, Buzz Media, has been laying off other employees as well recently—including, we hear, two others at Stereogum. Although we hear traffic is doing well at the site, ad sales suck everywhere. Lindsay is maintaining a good attitude about the whole crap, in her farewell email: "Did you know the Chinese symbol for "crisis" is totally not the same as the one for "opportunity"? That's a complete myth. But I'm going to pretend like it is anyway, and take its meaningless "lesson" to heart. Onward and upward! When god closes a door he opens the garage door! I'm on this! Etc."

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