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

lol

http://www.people.com/article/michael-cavallari-timeline-his-troubled-past?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag

man did they stumble into a clickbait investment vehicle or what

http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/4b9949f67f8b9a640da40100-265/hamilton-nolan.jpg

I can’t believe this guy hates spin and yoga

Hating everything is the world's easiest schtick if you can continue getting paid for it so it's hard to blame him.

Has Hamilton Nolan always been a condescending nihilist or is that new

I think that's on his business cards.

http://gawker.com/the-best-posts-about-kristin-cavallari-on-gawker-in-201-1750132648

I am still not quite sure I understand who Kristin Cavallari is, but I do know they made a lot of posts about her

she starred in 2 MTV reality shows about annoying rich kids from 2004 to 2010, it's just a self-flagellating 'lol this is one of the minor celebrities we pay too much attention to but ONLY AS A JOKE' gawker circle jerk. we talked about it at length itt a few weeks ago.

that's what she's done... but there's no sense of a person there, you know?

probably why this works

it works?

the worst, least working thing of any site on the web

didn't her brother die a few weeks ago?

lots of gawker lols fer sure

#jordans4ombudsman2016

One thing we have to look forward to in 2016: the end of 500 days of KC

I mean I could care less either way about it but I guess I won't mind having to ignore it anymore

this article from eonline doesn't mention her brother either http://www.eonline.com/news/727323/kristin-cavallari-posts-stunning-makeup-free-selfie-shares-picture-of-her-snow-angel

makes u think huh

hey, only 100 more days

or so

:-)

I've never clicked on a single one of those posts, so I have no gauge of whether or not they're even popular. Maybe if they originally were, there's no way they still are...right?

there's a dedicated community of fans...

Jay Cutler probably reads them during games

think i'm just going to switch to mentalfloss or something.

fark

fart

I think I've unfortunately seen maybe like three corpses in three days on rotten.com Gawker. I'm sure they'd argue that that's something other than immensely douchey and tasteless.

not a fan of Weegee, huh?

Four in four days. Seriously, the fuck is wrong with you guys?

And now I think I'm just done with you fucking people. YES, WE GET THAT PEOPLE DIED, WE CAN READ THE FUCKING WORDS YOU WROTE, WE DON'T NEED A GRAPHIC VISUAL AID SPLASHED ACROSS YOUR FRONT PAGE YOU SENSATIONALIST PIGFUCKERS.

Yes, what's up with this? The victims presumably haven't all been identified formally yet.

Tabloid for self-appointed clever people

what's the over/under on io9 getting shuttered completely because nobody feels like bothering to replace Annalee Newitz?

if the alternative is an io9 headed by rob bricken, i'm all for them shutting up shop

give it to Casey Chan, you simply WON'T BELIEVE how EPIC it would be!!!!!!!!!

lol I was gonna say, Rob Bricken will Peter Principle his way right to the top.

Editing Nerd Blogs is Amazingly Beautiful

Why don't you think Charlie Jane Anders can hold onto the throne? She's got a book coming out later this year, so there's a small degree of prestige in keeping her there.

Seems like a problem might be that when Alex has to spend all day writing his screed about how Chelsea is a bitch and the Clinton campaign is attacking Bernie from the right, he doesn't have time to be an editor, and this happens:

http://gawker.com/the-problem-with-journalism-is-you-need-an-audience-1752937252

I guess we're all done here then! Thanks!

that's a good and otm piece imo. what don't you like about it?

It's tritely pessimistic & also, He names a number of quality diverse American publishers vs the proposed solution of 'government gives the good writers money' which can be deconstructed equally unfavorably

Besides the fact that it's a college newspaper column written by a sophomore?

lol CJR actually linked to the piece and quoted the line about the true interests of the public being garbage. I give up. Where do I sign up for the job where I get paid to complain about my job?

I think the sentiment has a lot in common with this hypothetical sophomore but to be fair, the writing's a bit better.

Have you read any college newspapers lately?

I don't think it's an ad hoc endorsement of government-funded media. Just seems to be the lay of the land. Quality writing on its own isn't anything, you will still end up getting gigs that pay for large interests that either are profitable from their other properties, or fund your publication out of some sense of altruism.

It's true of nearly every field, though, unless you make physical products yourself or perform manual labor, in which case you're directly contributing goods or services for cash. Then you have to question where that cash came from. Or not.

There's still a minor stripe of gawker that's writers talking about journalism or the journalism market, it seems pretty much in that niche

Just work in computer security auditing, it's non-stop complaining about the state of security

I sympathize with the sentiments in the article. I tried doing some writing for a clickbait-esque website recently and despite having a lot of freedom to write about what i want, the medium (quick turnaround, pieces pegged to whatever hot item is trending), is very unpleasant. otoh historically writing has only rarely been associated w/ any kind of profitability and not having a huge literature market hasn't stopped mankind in the past from generating great + important texts. it might even be that the less profitable writing is, the better the writing you'll get since all the not-so-talented writer hacks will stop writing and you'll just be left with ppl who have to write bc they feel compelled to say something important or compelled to write as some kind of metaphysical experience idk now i'm rambling and have to get back to work writing copy for my company.

why do you think good, "literary"-ish journalism outlets keep closing, other than for the reasons mentioned by ham? is there a smart non-sophomoric reason, or is it just sophomoric to say the true reason?

good journalism doesn't create it's own market and the demand for it is highly depend on the fragile whims and egos of super-elites is a good thesis imo

i like the contrapuntal dissonance of holding up England Britain as a non-capitalist model of journalism right underneath a photo of someone reading the Daily Star