The Consumerist Gets A Tip Jar: Blogging Is Expensive, Or Something

Welcome back to a very Web 1.0 method of paying for news: Shoppers-fight-back blog The Consumerist, formerly of the Gawker network and now owned by Consumer Media LLC/Consumers Union (publishers of Consumer Reports), has launched a tip jar at http://donatetoconsumerist.com.

The bloggers posted last Monday about the change, but we were tipped off today by Folio:.

Co-executive editor Ben Popken writes:
“According to the data dwarfs, we have about 3 million visitors in a month. If everyone gives just $2.002,

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