to his credit, he doesn't delve into a thought exercise about what his brother would have thought about the car
― mh, Thursday, 10 January 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
Editors shouldn’t let this happen.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 10 January 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
this is a particularly over the top example of a kind of article jalopnik has been running for like 10 years
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 10 January 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
at least it was his own brother, his family ... considering how many writers, artists, etc. appropriate other people's personal tragedies or use them to write tone deaf think pieces ... it may be tacky, but assumedly, it's not hurting anyone.
― sarahell, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link
compared to the NYT magazine feature story last month about Max Harris' veganism and care for animals that kinda handwaved his lack of care for the guests at his event, where 36 people died ... "volvo gave me a car to drive around Ireland and write about my dead brother" seems kinda sweet
― sarahell, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:24 (five years ago) link
he's an intern for gawker for cars and needed some car related peg obv to write about his brother -
he did not
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
not badly written. needed more about achill.
if he couldnt find a galvin in kerry he wasnt looking.
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link
deems, how do you rate volvos?
― sarahell, Friday, 11 January 2019 03:00 (five years ago) link
premium runarounds
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 03:35 (five years ago) link
hes not wrong about that galway road neither
the details I really needed
― mh, Friday, 11 January 2019 03:50 (five years ago) link
hey ama
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 03:54 (five years ago) link
I was wondering wtf was wrong with you all until I hit the line at the end about how they've taken out a lot of the words and phots about the car.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 11 January 2019 11:51 (five years ago) link
the editor of the “new gawker” has some interesting editorial standards!!! pic.twitter.com/9f8x3nuGaE— tasbeeh herwees (@THerwees) January 16, 2019
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
I don't understand plagiarizing and I especially don't understand pointedly plagiarizing like that ^^^. It's trumpian in the absurdity.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
yeah, as per the plagiarized: "imagine taking the time to re-type and plagiarize this dumbass tweet"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
it fucks me up because there are people on twitter who plagiarize constantly but they at least have the foresight to rephrase a little bit
― mh, Thursday, 17 January 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link
The relaunched gawker is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 17 January 2019 02:52 (five years ago) link
The fans will know the difference. They were a fan of a gossip blog that covered the media.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 17 January 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
The original tweet was super cringey, but to like it enough to plagiarize? Oooof.
― Yerac, Thursday, 17 January 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
She has some other terrible tweets:https://splinternews.com/here-are-the-media-chuds-joining-fake-gawker-1831782448
― jaymc, Thursday, 17 January 2019 05:23 (five years ago) link
In 2012, Breslaw wrote a story for Tablet Magazine titled, “How the cancer victim at the center of the AMC series [Breaking Bad] justifies my skepticism of Holocaust survivors.”
― jmm, Thursday, 17 January 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
here's the direct link to that story:https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/105853/breaking-bad-karma
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 January 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
xp- lmao
― flopson, Thursday, 17 January 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
it goes in a differently terrible direction than you'd initially expect
― mh, Thursday, 17 January 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
it’s fuckin wild
― Effectively Big Jim with a beard. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
who in their right mind would've thought those were words that should be committed to paper
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
Oh, stop being coy, holocaust denier, tell us why you are estranged from your Jewish father!
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
Heard an interview with Max earlier this week btw
https://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/260-fake-ass-internet/
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link
so much for that whole "hiring reporters" thing
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gawker-writers-quit-over-editorial-director-carson-griffiths-offensive-tweets-workplace-comments/
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
Kosoff additionally told HR of an exchange in which Griffith took a dismissive stance towards the recruiting of a writer who identifies as non-binary.Kosoff, who was tasked with recruiting some new editorial staff, wrote in a Slack message that she was going to meet with a potential staffer “who is a person of color and nonbinary (uses they/them pronouns).”When she returned from the meeting two hours later, Griffith initially laughed off the preferred pronouns.“lol is [name redacted] a girl?” Griffith asked.
Kosoff, who was tasked with recruiting some new editorial staff, wrote in a Slack message that she was going to meet with a potential staffer “who is a person of color and nonbinary (uses they/them pronouns).”
When she returned from the meeting two hours later, Griffith initially laughed off the preferred pronouns.
“lol is [name redacted] a girl?” Griffith asked.
wow, just a straight up evil person, i hope she eats shit forever
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
hard to believe this can't-fail concept is failing
― “I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
walking away from presumably lucrative gigs like this in the current media economy takes guts, so props to them
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
I was looking up Griffith last week on instagram, twitter and her articles. I couldn't figure out how she landed this job besides her mingling in the monied prep Trump crowd.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
at the same time, they a) took jobs from someone widely known to be a shithead and b) eventually realised, one presumes, that being associated long-term with his shitty project could affect their future job prospects xp
― “I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
lots of people knowingly work for shitheads and keep on doing it because $$$. I have certainly done this!
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
Oh her instagram is now private. It was very white linen hamptons. Ha and pic with Billy McFarland.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
xpost The majority of companies are run by shitheads. How to choose?
― Yerac, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
very hamptons indeed
https://guestofaguest.com/new-york/you-should-know/you-should-know-writer-carson-griffith
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
I mean there's clearly different calculus at work when you have a byline etc, but idk there are plenty of shitty, toxic outlets with one or two writers worth reading (the NYT for example)
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
What Yerac said, I don't understand how Griffith got the job in the first place.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
She did write a very nice piece about Ivanka too.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
The profile said she is “more than just a pretty face” so that’s something
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
there are a lot of valid reasons to shit on the original gawker as a tabloid rag, but the one thing they did right was allow writers who weren't grads from a subset of northeastern prep schools and prestige colleges or complete society hanger-ons get a foot into the media world
― mh, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
i'll sign off on that
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
tru
― “I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
however will we enable "access journalism" if our reporting staff didn't go to the right schools and do unpaid internships?!
― mh, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
Aw, all the party photo sites that Blue States Lose linked to are dead. RIP 2005 Brooklyn.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 9 March 2019 04:40 (five years ago) link
GMG bought by a private equity firm.
Gizmodo Media Group has been sold to Great Hill Partners. Our statement: pic.twitter.com/OJlbp3ysNH— GMG Union (@gmgunion) April 8, 2019
Jim Spanfeller, who is now overseeing The Onion and GMG sites like Gizmodo, Jezebel, Deadspin, acknowledges importance of “editorial independence” in a memo to staff, while also stressing the need for a “healthy and productive partnership” work with business side pic.twitter.com/XoCAxyoS4h— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) April 8, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 April 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
The skeleton has been pulled out of the coffin, tied off in a bag full of heavy stones and then thrown to the bottom of the sea
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link