hes not wrong about that galway road neither
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 03:35 (five years ago) link
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
i feel terrible for the folks at the onion who are chained to this shambling zombie
― TV presenter and animal lover, Matt Baker (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
they lure you in with the promise of Kinja, but then you wake up to the reality of getting sold to something called Great Hills Partners
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
fuckin' kinja, what a disaster that was
― TV presenter and animal lover, Matt Baker (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
i posted dozens of hilariously witty comments on gawker over the years. about 3.5% of them were approved and published. imo that is why the whole enterprise went down in flames
(in case you're keeping track, gawker has now woke up to a dystopian reality, went down in flames, died, been placed in a coffin, and sunk to the bottom of the sea)
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
still got tim rogers, though
i posted dozens of hilariously witty comments on gawker over the years. about 3.5% of them were approved and published. Seriously. What was the actual process for getting out of the grays?
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
you had to personally know a mod and text them
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
yet more proof, as if further proof was required, that ilx is the only good design for an online forum
― TV presenter and animal lover, Matt Baker (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
if you post on a site that isn't one of the more-trafficked ones or post on an older article you're never out of the grays. no clue how you become regular enough that you're not gray comment-by-default
I think the writers are self-moderating comments on their articles? seems like a hellscape
― mh, Monday, 8 April 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link