hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

at least in the emily gould era, say what you will about how unethical they were, they pretty much went after celebrities and not private citizens (as far as i remember). i assume everyone has seen this classic video from the gould days?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-avakrRUaU

feel like mistakes is a way too kind reading of what lehrer did, his entire approach was to bend the whole concept of non fiction and journalism in order to advance his career, like there was nothing besides that

ironically being a terrible science reporter who reaches ridiculous conclusions to make his writing more interesting is not a fireable offense just ask malcolm gladwell or the freaknomics guys

ya i like his work quite a bit but i in this case i dont think his approach is really appropriate, this doc of his is a stone classic imho

this and secret rules of the world are way way more interesting than anything he's done of late. he was more interesting before he got big in america.

secret rulers*

o fine blame america

i apologise for my post - thank you for calling me out on it.

please can a mod delete.

too late my boss has seen it

my parents just received death threats

on the plus side i am writing an article for the new yorker about my experiences

more justice goodly done

ironically being a terrible science reporter who reaches ridiculous conclusions to make his writing more interesting is not a fireable offense just ask malcolm gladwell or the freaknomics guys

Gladwell and Broken Windows covered extensively in the book!

hey max. what the fuck is wrong with you?

thats good but he still gets 200k (made this number up) per speaking engagement xp

i caught an interview w/ gladwell on, idk fareed zakaria's show maybe? where he was saying that americans should probably cheat more on taxes bc we'd get away with it, but we're just too darn honest.

America should torrent more Malcolm Gladwell ebooks

Stop and frisk continued through the 2000s and into the 2010s and one by-product of it was that some repeatedly frisked young people sought revenge in online activism - by joining 4chan. It wasn’t only Mercedes who told me this. Soon after we met I had a cloak-and-dagger meeting outside a subway station in Queens with a 4chan friend of hers. A battered car pulled up. The driver was young, white, of Spanish heritage and wore a big crucifix. I still don’t know his real name. He said I should call him by his Internet name: Troy.

He took me to a cafe where he grumbled about how things weren’t like they used to be, about the good old days when you couldn’t leave your mobile phone on a cafe table around here without it being stolen. I told Troy that the good old days sounded terrible to me, but he explained that with gentrification comes collateral damage - constant stop and frisks of any young people who don’t look like preppy hipsters: ‘Going to the store, coming home from school, ruining your whole day. It’s disgusting. It’s dangerous to walk the borders around here.’ It was these police inequities that compelled Troy to join 4chan, he told me.

I keep expecting an epic Gladwell takedown story to come up, but it never comes.

its been tried but he always responds its just a bit of fun and besides criticism is bad and who can disagree that fun is good and criticism is bad

https://ourbadmedia.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/tipping-points-malcolm-gladwell-could-use-a-few/
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115164/malcolm-gladwells-pseudo-profundity
http://blog.chabris.com/2013/10/why-malcolm-gladwell-matters-and-why.html
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/16/hack_list_no_10_malcolm_gladwell/
http://shameproject.com/report/malcolm-gladwell-unmasked-life-work-of-americas-most-successful-propagandist/

gladwell takedown stories is its own cottage industry

lol at shame project

yeah, totally, but they never stick. I thought the debunking of the "koreans can't fly planes because of their culture" story would get more traction.

I don't know about epic takedown, but he calls him out on some stuff here too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LktwDI6JqO0

I think the getting fired angle is usually bad, except for that Business Insider CTO (?) dude who was a complete and total misogynist dick. Dude had views that he made no bones about, was in a position where he could hire people for a company that is presumably doing journalism.

The entire "oh, I have free speech, I can say whatever I want and it's separate from my job" doesn't fly to me when part of your job is being a leader at a company that could very much be seen as biased by employing people espousing views that could create a misogynist work environment.

so last time i checked in we were watching them humiliate some kid for singing along with Drake... not sure what happened.

you can't just skip to the most recent post you have to read them all

Did that kid get fired from his pr job or

he was SB'd from his pr job. so he may return to his pr job at anytime.

if you are singing along to Drake, you are already shamed

so the only defense of posting that video we've gotten so far is an assurance that "he'll be ok"

that the article author apparently posts on ILX means it deserves far more clowning

what did J0rdan's mom think of this post, is what I am wondering

whole lotta white people defending their rights

well who else is going to

white kid caught ecstatically repeating n-word in gawker headline by ilx watchdogs

what did J0rdan's mom think of this post, is what I am wondering

― mh, Tuesday, April 14, 2015 2:52 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

my mom likes everything i write except if the post is about someone's penis

why don't you write about all the kids singing along to steely dan

*search's j0rdan's kinja* that's...quite a few of your gawker pieces, at least

it just didnt fit his narrative of all powerful mobs taking mostly innocent ppl down

Misread "all powerful morbs", was confused

so the only defense of posting that video we've gotten so far is an assurance that "he'll be ok"

― Treeship, Tuesday, April 14, 2015 2:48 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

in any event i don't really think the post needs to be defended but: it's a funny clip that was noticed by tons of people at the time, that perhaps says something very small about society, and which was presented in a rather non judgmental way (and the judgement -- that he got a little too into it -- was jokey, not preachy).

should append that disclaimer to all of your jokes tbh

kid lookin kinda racist #no preacho

Re: j0rd's non-story, it's mostly meaningless aside from the cultural context we currently live in where the execution of a black man by a police officer was just plastered all over the airwaves as entertaining teasers for the evening news, which puts a pretty vicious point on the types of things Americans find funny. Add into that max's The Hero Who Rescued Three Kidnapped Women in Cleveland Is Hilarious story my impression is that sometime millennials should look into a mirror and tell themselves to smarten the fuck up.

oh I get it yr just posting viral content that already made the rounds, thanks neetzan

we're the only ones that posted it

It is true that you guys aren't the only ones putting unthinking racism into your pieces; I hope you don't think that means you should get a pass

sorry, didn't mean to imply you guys weren't trying to be viral content originators

what is the internet if not originating viral content

hot take

if you are singing along to Drake, you are already shamed

srsly, what is that word doing in a formulaic, lameass fuck-me ballad?