For-profit blog networks closing on left and right

The for-profit blogging network, Politicker has closed most of its sites. In this article at Politico, the bloggers are referred to as "reporters." The same is true at Talking Points Memo.

It doesn't matter what we call ourselves, running an operation like this for profit is next to impossible. When Pajamas Media started up, Roger Simon lured a large number of conservative bloggers from BlogAds with the promise of a stream of advertising dollars and apparently some subsidizing. That doesn't appear to have worked out too well for them. Wolcott had some fun with the demise of the PJM blog network. The B-Listers weren't happy.