What Valleywag has discovered is that they don't have to bother getting things right in order to generate a lot of page views. They're like a troll in that respect.
I wonder if they started out with this plan, or if they just discovered it by being careless and noticing it didn't hurt their traffic.
Mm, yes, and Donna Bogatin. She was beating on us for a while, but she seems to have stopped. What's distinctive about Valleywag is that it's a site and not just an individual.
Maybe we should make up a name for them. Journotrolls?
It's really not. Trollporter - some big green dude who carries bags, or a futuristic way for troll folk to travel instantly. I suggest Journatroll, it rolls of the tongue a little better than Journotroll. As a plus its fairly easy to work Journatrollism into a sentence where you would have said Journalism.
I wonder if they started out with this plan, or if they just discovered it by being careless and noticing it didn't hurt their traffic.