@Ted Clayton -

No, WPTavern publishes plenty of posts, publicizes plenty of stories, which then go quietly into the long night, despite that WPTavern put them to the world. The WPTavern kiss does not make a great story from a trifle.

Bottom line: if WPTavern had never linked/tweeted KevinJohn's blog post, this blowup never would have happened. (That's a credit to Jeff, by the way; the reaction to the story isn't his fault.)