I'm so glad that Joel Johnson's been shown the door out of another Gawker blog. Unfortunately, they let him into Jalopnik. Hopefully they'll shift him to Jezebel by the end of the year before recognizing he's absolutely useless as a human being or a doorstop.
I've had issues with Kotaku's journalistic quality and truthfulness for much of the past year, but I stopped reading after Johnson took over and destarred me for calling him out on bad writing and fact checking during the PSN outage debacle. Internet people almost never rub me the wrong way, but there's something about that blubbering manchild that just makes me want to stuff him in a locker. I stopped reading Gizmodo for the same reasons, and I won't visit either site for any reason, unless I absolutely have to (like when people here link stuff back). I don't think I've missed much the past 8 months, though.
Hopefully with Totilo taking the helm for real, Kotaku can get away a bit from the tabloid trash tone of its parent company and get back to reasonably well-written and informative articles that aren't lifted off somebody else's back. That said, I still read a couple GM blogs, io9 and Jalopnik and think they're great. io9's staff are professional and still can write snarkily informative stuff, and Jalopnik's just fun with a great community.
I really hope Jalopnik doesn't give Johnson much pull there, because it's my favorite car blog and he ruins everything he touches. So long as we can get away with trash talking him in Oppo, we'll be ok, capisce?
