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Commenters Comment on Commenting, Actually Get Somewhere

Last week Chairman Denton wrote about Television Without Pity, the "unfettered" TV review site that just lost its three founding members, a lonely one year after Bravo acquired it. Fittingly, our commenters (many revealing themselves to be multiple-site commenting addicts) had many well formed opinions about the heavily commenter-focused TWoP, opining at length about why the three favorites left and what happened, in a general sense, to the once mighty site. Essentially the same conclusion was reached by all, that TWoP fell to that oldest of internet stories: small, cult-ish site ("beautifully self-contained", commenter Colonel Mustard mused) gets noticed and keeps getting bigger until it collapses under its own weight, especially when it goes corporate. There are too many recaps now! Who cares about Samantha Who?? (No one, I hope.) There are soo many damned commenting rules, you keened. More »

2:02 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Richard
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Latest by jsteele: And now Miss Alli is leaving: [www.televisionwithoutpity.com] more »

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And This Is Why Corporations Don't Buy Blogs

So how did NBC's Bravo lose not one but all three founders of the unfettered TV review site, Television Without Pity, it bought a year ago? The cable network disclosed this week, in a blog post, that Sars (Sarah D. Bunting), Wing Chun (Tara Ariano), and Glark (David T. Cole) were all leaving the 10-year-old site "to pursue dreams and ambitions that will take them beyond TWoP." More »

11:51 AM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Nick Denton
10,887 views, 67 comments

raphael vinoly

To-Do List

1. Hear architect Raphael Vinoly at NYU.
2. Panelists from Time, Entertainment Weekly, the Times, and Television Without Pity discuss television criticism at the Museum of Television and Radio.
3. Catch Cat Power at Warsaw.

3:38 PM on Tue Apr 8 2003
By Gawker
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