So Gawker publishes the pictures of the crazed contractors over at the US Embassy in Afghanistan. What do you do if you're a major TV network, and want to cover it? If you're MSNBC, you have on a staffer from former MSNBC honcho and current "contributor" Dan Abrams' new website to discuss it. It makes sense, if you think about it! One thing Gawker has never done is hire the sort of PR people that The Daily Beast and other websites have, people who basically handle TV bookings. Some websites just have that whole thing built right in though. Genius!

If you'd like, you could watch former MSNBC honcho and now "NBC adviser/consultant" and also now Internet entrepreneur Dan Abrams blow a gasket on the TV (on the MSNBC in fact!) over what is essentially criticism that he isn't doing serious work, launching websites that monitor gossip and rank media personalities, unlike, I guess, the serious work he was doing before.

Tom Scocca: Even if you set aside the money. Which is hard to do! But set aside the money. Why is a newspaper offering to grease the way to backroom meetings between people who want policy and people who make policy? READ MORE