Jeff Goldstein has been kicked to the curb by PajamasMedia, but I think Vox is correct when he says that he never expected it to succeed. I sent them a few submissions a little while back, and even though they were initially well-received, I was told on the first two that they had already covered the subjects and were moving on. Lo and behold, a few days later, they "changed their minds" if the front page of their site was any indication. While I was disappointed, I was not particularly mad at them because I never really expected them to publish my editorials because of the cliquish nature of the political blogosphere "A list."
There has always been something decidedly "mainstream mediaish" about them, and Dennis the Peasant's old post on the origins of PajamasMedia only adds fuel to the fire. A healthier, more blogger-friendly alternative to them is Culture 11 which is run by Joe Carter, the founder of Evangelical Outpost. PajamasMedia always struck me more as a formalization of a clique rather than a serious media venture.
That said, it should have been apparent to the major bloggers affiliated with PajamasMedia that it was about to leapfrog the shark when it made Joe the Plumber its war correspondent.
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