Wonkette Overhauls Staff ... Again

Seems the folks over at Gawker can't quite figure out to do with the staff of their political blog Wonkette lately. Late Friday afternoon, former Wonkette associate editor Megan Carpentier was fired from the position she took on just a few short months ago. The Huffington Post aptly sums up the merry-go-round, when last fall then-editors Alex Pareene moved up to New York to start writing for Gawker and Ken Layne stepped down to a contributor. A new editor and associate editor were brought on board, and Carpentier, who had been writing their "Ask a Lobbyist" feature and, coincidentally, had just been laid off from her lobbyist job, was asked to join them full-time.

She quickly outed herself with a full photo spread and most readers seemed to enjoy her less-inside-joke-more-ranty style of writing. But according to her personal blog, not everyone did, including Layne, who decided he was going to take over as editor again and "move the site towards being what it was under him and Alex and that my voice and writing didn't fit with that vision." So the world of blogger turnover goes. In Carpentier's goodbye post on Wonkette she notes that she'll still be writing some posts for sister-site Jezebel while she starts looking for a new job.

Photo by Lisa Boggs