andrew sullivan c/d

https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/497058322751975424

nothing huh

pundit TMI

who among us hasn't wished for more back hair

Bob Hoskins RIP

i get tired of:
-so many posts about religion, jesus, etc
-south park references, fuck that show imo

i enjoy:
-some of his posts about sexuality, usually when he collates others' writing on the subject, i don't always enjoy his own writing on it
-his pot activism

He sures loves complaining about radical leftist feminists!

yea that's annoying. tbh i don't often read anything he actually writes apart from the pot activism stuff, i just go there because he pulls together a bunch of interesting stuff from the rest of the web

I got the impression that Saturdays were for sex and culture posts and Sundays were for faith & religion posts. Maybe I was just imagining it.

oh could be, i just never pay attention

In 2008, from the Iowa primary onwards, I'd be checking his site every 15 minutes--it was like a clearing house for everything that was happening, and we were rooting for the same person. In 2012, I'd take a look every few days; the debate meltdown was funny. I hardly ever look at him anymore. I'd say it's about half because of loss of enthusiasm on my part, half that he lost me when he started what seemed like a complicated pay scheme.

My minor pet peeve with the site (and I'm a subscriber) is that unless Sullivan is gone, none of the posts have bylines. He has a big staff of writers, editors and contributors, yet they're never created for the work they do, creating the misleading impression that he's authoring all that content. That seems like something he'd gripe over if another big media site did it.

Anyway, I probably won't resubscribe unless his 2016 election coverage is sensational. The site has seemed removed from the subjects that interest me lately.

i kind of feel like a dick for doing this but one way to view the subscribers-only non-truncated posts is to right-click the post's title & "open in a new private window"

I wouldn't feel too guilty about that. For all the hubbub he makes about the importance of supporting independent journalism and all of that, so much of what that blog does is link to outside content and other sites' reporting and analysis. If anything I feel guilty that I'm supporting that aggregation over sites that do actual journalism.

I understand outside sites benefit greatly from his links, too, so it's a symbiotic relationship, but still, one party is doing significantly more work than the other

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/01/28/a-note-to-my-readers/

welp

that post endorsing Chait was a suitable last straw

RIP - i read sullivan for a year or two back when he was still at the atlantic. some things he always did well (primarily social issues) and some things he has always been horrible with (geopolitics)

still read him every day, often nervously

And now, where will you go?

Damn, end of an era. Can't believe he's crossing the blogger rubicon

https://twitter.com/johnjcook

it's always been hard to take this dude seriously because of his support of the iraq invasion. how can someone so "smart" be that dumb?

as a general rule, you won't go too far wrong ignoring any political writer who was wrong on iraq in 2003

see also: jonathan chait

I can't think of any political writer that was right on iraq in 2003 unless Seymour Hersh counts

the general preponderance of willful ignorance and cynical opportunism was mind-blowing

why does anyone care about andrew sullivan

gay rightwingers are funny

is there any issue on which he's still a rightwinger?

being 'a rightwinger who's not really a rightwinger' seems like such a great shortcut to undeserved attention

yeah that was a cheap shot but after yesterday's political correctness bullshit he deserves it

xp

is there any issue on which he's still a rightwinger?

― Mordy, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 2:32 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

charles murray

Most of his shit these days is aggregated, with the occasional splenetic outburst to remine people tbat he's a dick and his "A Prayer for Today" twaddle.

Dude was editor of Thw New Republic during its 18th Brumaire phase; every mastheas Dem waa as conservative and insufferable as he.

loves Obama, still a rightwinger

Was gonna make that B- joke.

i lol'd

is there any issue on which he's still a rightwinger?

― Mordy, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:32 PM (32 minutes ago)

uncritical adoration of ronald reagan?

or i dunno, maybe that's a bipartisan thing at this point

the recent bell curve apologist stuff...

The timing of this is really a slap in the face, just a year after going all in on this ad-free independent blogging model, touting himself as a model for others to follow.

And accepting a ton of money from readers to do so, right?

Yup. Also for all his self-congratulatory posts about what a strong community his team and his readers have created, the truth is it's not strong enough to survive with out him and his distinct voice and perspective. There's no way that site will carry on as a reader-sustained, ad-free venture without him. It's over.

http://mashable.com/2013/01/03/andrew-sullivan-daily-dish-third-million/

Time to cash out, suckers!!

wow that's crazy

Happy Tenth Anniversary of Andrew Sullivan's Previous Blogging Hiatus

As you can see in the accompanying screenshot of Sullivan's Dish archives, in the nine months following Sullivan's 2005 announcement that he was stepping down from blogging, he updated The Dish 1,564 times.

Andrew Sullivan is not retiring from blogging.

http://tktk.gawker.com/happy-tenth-anniversary-of-andrew-sullivans-previous-bl-1682343500

It's a lucrative gig and he's good at it, so yeah it doesn't seem unreasonable to speculate he'll be back. Especially if he remains financially vested in the Dish; the incentive to return to blog up the 2016 election has got to be huge.

people aren't gonna come back to his pay model after getting burned

Not to get too speculative/cynical, but he could use this as his hiatus to parachute away from the dish, then return to blogging in the year to cover the elections for some other site that would probably pay much better. The hunger for election coverage is going to be huge, and I could see a few sites bringing him on as a renter the way NYtimes did Nate Silver

lmao the dean hits on what's really important

https://twitter.com/rxgau/status/560554662815076352

(yes that is from like 1min ago heh)

Checked in hourly during the last few months of the 2008 election. Not too often the past few years.