Gawk This

Now, we here at the Quail don't normally call out other prominent members of the Blogosphere, but we would be remiss if we didn't take on the biggest dog on the block.

Half of Gawker's editorial staff jumped ship on Friday, including Emily Gould and Choire Sicha, long-time managing editor, without having new gigs lined up in advance. That's usually not the best sign...Reactions to the news have ranged wildly, from...
* The New York Times's peaceful report of what happened
* New York Magazine takes snarky pot-shots
* The Daily Swarm politely edits stories from other news outlets, letting us know that the writers in question objected to a new pay scale scheme whereby they were compensated based on the number of page views, not the number of posts
* And Gawker covers its own HR problems