Gawker.TV Launches: Your Pay Work Can Wait

Our sister blog FishbowlNY reports that Gawker.TV made its debut Tuesday. Drew Grant writes:

Today’s launch of Gawker.TV is the product of Richard Blakeley‘s three years as Nick Denton‘s video editor. Now the This Is Why You’re Fat co-author is manning his own satellite site, which will be posting videos throughout the day, with the help of the 16 or so interns currently working under Blakeley.

While the notion of media folks getting paid little or nothing for their efforts is getting pretty damned tiresome, I hear that if any of the 16 interns utter the site’s tagline, “Your Work Can Wait,” at a local Quiznos, they can get a free 6-inch sub. Well, if they say that and give the cashier $5.

OK, that was out of line. But I care about those kids. And really, I blame the advertisers. C’mon advertisers, advertise! (No, not with them, with us!)

In the Meet Your Editors section of the site, Gawker.TV promises:

Amazingly cheesy 80′s and 90′s music videos, the best comedy sketches in existence, a daily wrap-up of what we’ll be watching every night, cute animal videos to make you smile, the best in fail videos, weekly how-to’s on a variety of subjects, wrap-ups of the week in video, the web shows that you should be watching, and always leaving you with a daily moment of WTF.

Serve it up.

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