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

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

i pick up an issue of gq or esquire or vanity fair or w/e when i'm traveling as a sort of ritual, but i've been at home lately so i grabbed one at the store

magazine is thinner than ever, 1/3 is advertorial (shades of that episode of 'girls') and the two long-form articles, which those publications still manage to sneak in, are pretty weak. bleh.

some level of journalism can probably be naturally supported by the market but not at the level we're currently at. like every frontier town can maayyybe support one fast-talking nosey can't-mind-his-own-business reporter w/ a press card on his cap

The answer is that quality and audience do not go together. The media is not the enemy of thoughtful writing. The public is.

says the media.

I've been in journalism for 20 years (first paid credit November 1996), edited three magazines, two newspapers and a couple of websites, and nothing Nolan says in that piece is false or even exaggerated. People love stupid crap. Sometimes they'll read an interesting, smart story, but they'll go right back to crap afterward. Me included. Media ownership has been a playground for rich idiots for hundreds of years, and will likely never be anything else, at least not under capitalism. (State media is a separate issue, of course.)

as much as I ridicule the NYT it is probably as good as The Guardian, and better at some things - and despite the shellacking local US papers have taken they are mostly better than any/all local papers in the UK

television/radio is an entirely different story of course

Any talent he has as a prose stylist disappears under layers and layers of greasy, florid smugness. He's clearly too precious to be asked to trim a sentence or a paragraph here or there even when he's making the same point for the third time.

I didn't realize the death of good content demanded this particularly sneering and hateful explainer, but I guess if you guys have never read a piece on the economics of commercial news media before, it's an okay start.

yeah i'm not sure any amount of editing could have stripped that tone away

I love the assumption that I had an issue with the point he was arguing, like I'm a fucking numbskull who doesn't understand why some parts of magazines are pictures of attractive people with just the name of a perfume in big letters

i don't think 'socialize the media' is a serious alternative (although uk has good some private media alongside bbc so it's not either/or) but Hamilton's beat is cranky socialist guy, plus that's like one half sentence added in as kind of an afterthought

sorry i assumed you didn't like else about it other than the tone, my bad. tbh Tombot u are just craving to edit him lol

easy to see how i can make that mistake though since everything he writes is in the same tone

his tone is the WORST

well, that's fair

I thought you were getting at it being the naive college sophomore seeing the true shape of the world and attempting to illuminate

well that too but apparently the point needed to be made I guess? I was pretty sure I understood why my CVS checkout counter is festooned with 120-point yellow letters instead of a wide variety of science and literary publications

maybe his next article can be about how Top 40 is a format entirely composed of third-hand ideas

that point needs to be made. i don't think its really common currency

well that too but apparently the point needed to be made I guess? I was pretty sure I understood why my CVS checkout counter is festooned with 120-point yellow letters instead of a wide variety of science and literary publications

― El Tomboto, Thursday, January 14, 2016 5:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Do you not follow media people on Twitter at all? When Grantland and the Dissolve shut down, people seemed completely at a loss that sites THEY clearly read all the time weren't profitable

I try to follow nobody on twitter and have gotten pretty topnotch at it

I guess a lot of gawker posts make more sense if one assumes that they are using their competition as an audience proxy. Actually a lot of a lot of things about modern web media make more sense through that lens. Doesn't give me any more appreciation or use for it, though.

I try to follow nobody on twitter and have gotten pretty topnotch at it
--El Tomboto

Am I supposed to read this in Ron Swanson's voice?

Close enough

El Tomo Swanboto

Meet Gawker’s New Boss: ‘Russia’s Richest Man,’ Viktor Vekselberg

Aw man, Vikky V-Berg! Yeah that guy's really cool

meet gawker's new boss: a minority investor in the company

Always good to see minorities involved I spose

if only!

does the union have any input on this kind of thing?

i would think not, but i dunno, what if the guy was all BLOOD DIAMONDS

He has a colourful history, for sure.

Organised labour probably best staying out of his way on past experience.

Fabergé egg bonuses!

Countdown to Hulk Hogan dying of polonium poisoning...

Colourful history month

does the union have any input on this kind of thing?

i would think not, but i dunno, what if the guy was all BLOOD DIAMONDS

― mookieproof, Wednesday, January 20, 2016 7:11 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

nah

All of a Sudden, I'm Way More Excited For DC's Upcoming Movies Than Marvel's

security flaw could allow hackers to

awesome https://twitter.com/AdrianChen/status/690236890449100800

I know this has been beat to death in other fora but it really is amazing and sad that the hulk hogan thing has had such significant repercussions for the whole outfit.

mostly sad but kinda lol

i love this hed

Matt Hendricks Stops Slapshot With His Dick & Balls

jesus christ this review

http://steamed.kotaku.com/darkest-dungeon-the-kotaku-review-1755308882

i know way too much about this person now

http://steamed.kotaku.com/darkest-dungeon-the-kotaku-review-1755308882

clue in today's nytimes mini crossword

It’s always a nice wink at an unknowing audience when a movie reveals a huge spoiler during the movie itself. It’s harmless fun that most people don’t even catch because they don’t know enough about what’s happening in the movie yet. But on future watches it gives a little extra chuckle layer for people to enjoy.

Aw, come on. Lay off Casey Chan, man.

no, he is the fn worst

wow omg can u believe that foreshadowing is a literary device that exists? totally epic, you won't believe it, watch the most hilariously epic sriracha bacon of all time blow you away

extra chuckle layer