Pajamas Media goes commercial-free

by John Q on March 24, 2007

I visited Pajamas Media today and it looks like they’ve adopted the same model as public broadcasting – a couple of public service ads for the a girls-and-technology initiative from the Girl Scouts (quite a good one, I thought) and ads for PJM itself, but, as far as I can see, no commercials.

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sidereal 03.24.07 at 3:54 am

Is this intended to be ironic? If so, I don’t get it.

I just visited and there are two skyscrapers on the right. . one for JoinRudy2008 (cause freedom is authority!) and one for a Qwest bundle.

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John Quiggin 03.24.07 at 6:33 am

Curiouser and curiouser. Maybe Australian readers get the commercial-free version.

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abb1 03.24.07 at 8:26 am

Adblock?

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Andrew Brown 03.24.07 at 8:27 am

Could this have anything to do with the price they find they can charge for commercials?

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eugene 03.24.07 at 9:19 am

Two skyscapers and a Guiliani ad…the symbolism is overwhelming!

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Kevin Donoghue 03.24.07 at 12:16 pm

No commercials in the Irish version either.

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abb1 03.24.07 at 1:09 pm

Download HOSTS file from here http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm and you won’t see any ads for a while. And your browser will work faster and use less bandwidth.

Hell, you can even add an entry to 127.0.0.1 pajamasmedia.com and you won’t see the pajamas thing ever again.

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fred lapides 03.24.07 at 2:13 pm

I believe they may be sponsored indirectly by the pharaceutical and oil industries

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P O'Neill 03.24.07 at 2:23 pm

Glenn Reynolds seems to use the same hosting for the Pajamas ads — are those not seeing the ads on PJM seeing any skyscrapers to the right of the HehIndeedys on his site?

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harry b 03.24.07 at 3:30 pm

I got 2 ads for Rudy, both huge, like others. Visiting from the Midwest.

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John Quiggin 03.24.07 at 7:48 pm

I saw the same Girl Scout ad on a several sites affiliated with Pajamas Media (Dan Drezner’s for example). I’d say the Giuliani advertisers must have requested that the ad only be served to US addresses and that PJM haven’t been able to sell space in other markets.

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neil 03.26.07 at 3:50 pm

I see the same two ads as Quiggin, from a non-US, not-blocking-anything browser.

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