One can forgive the traditional media for the somewhat over-the-top reportage devoted to last week's discovery that three of Gawker's editors - half its staff - were quitting the publication.

For all of the glaring attention placed on the travails of other publications, it must have been nice to capture Gawker at an inopportune moment in its history.

The pretentious "everything-about-our-culture-is-annoying-but-us-and-our-take-on-our-culture" magazine n+1 gleefully circulated its "obit piece" about Gawker, which catalogued its descent from wide-eyed ...