you know, I realized in recent times that even if old gawker had turned into just a site with the insightful, funny articles and political content and had jettisoned the celebrity gossip stuff entirely, Thiel still would have found a lawsuit to work with his vendetta at some point. it was the one thing, but it could have been anything, or death by a thousand cuts
― irn-scamp (mh), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
they printed one of the slanderous comments I submitted about my favorite NFL franchise so I'm even more in the tank for nu-Deadpsin now.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 11 September 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
https://adequateman.deadspin.com/i-was-catfished-in-2012-and-i-took-my-anger-out-on-manti-teo-1829355555
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 11 September 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
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― maura, Friday, 11 September 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
that's what i got when i clicked on that link
yeah sorry, it was a fake link. joke was supposed to be in the url.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 11 September 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
A few years ago I went for a dinner with a colleague and we ended up talking about feminism, at which point I told her that in my teens I exhibited a great deal of internalized misogyny that I was in no position to really understand due to my immaturity and somewhat typical (in this regard, at least) Eastern European upbringing. She was utterly shocked and disgusted when she found out and I was just like… a) based on what we both know of teenage boys in the 90s and early 00s, what were you expecting?, b) I'm telling you this story because I'm still ashamed of my stupidity back then, and c) would it be best to never speak of this to anyone ever again and instead foster the notion that I'm a one-dimensional being whose behaviour has always been and always will be guided by the exact same ethical principles sub specie aeternitatis?
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 September 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
oh lol i thought it had just been spanfeller'd
― maura, Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
No idea what that means.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 12 September 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link
that the link had been seasoned with dried leaves
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Saturday, 12 September 2020 01:22 (three years ago) link
Barstool - chaotic evilDefector - chaotic goodThe Ringer - lawful evilGrantland - lawful goodThe Athletic - true neutral
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 12 September 2020 02:00 (three years ago) link
grantland and the ringer are more or less the same people, some of whom are great. but simmons was the same guy both places and it is, of course, not open mic night
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 September 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
That's why they're both lawful but Simmons has gotten worse and his influence over the site (and transition to podcast network) has gotten heavier-handed.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 12 September 2020 02:41 (three years ago) link
haven't heard about anyone killing themselves over a ringer story
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 September 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
lol milo otm
― k3vin k., Saturday, 12 September 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
Mookie otm
― treeship., Saturday, 12 September 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
everyone is OTM
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Saturday, 12 September 2020 07:11 (three years ago) link
putting aside any personal feelings i have about, the it athletic is vc funded which is a bad sign for its being at all “good”
― maura, Sunday, 13 September 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
*about it, the
also mookieproof otm
It's nice that people give enough of a fuck about sports to pay for writing about sports. If only I had made the choice as a small boy to give a fuck about sports, perhaps I would be making the big bucks as a writer today, instead of scrabbling in the gutter for nickels as a *cough, spit* music critic.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 13 September 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
I doubt anyone outside of ESPN is making big bucks but perhaps these subscription models are allowing more sportswriters to at least make a modest living, which is admittedly a hell of a lot more than can be said for the popcrit hustle.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Sunday, 13 September 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
Athletic poached a lot of veteran sportswriters from daily newspapers and even ESPN, I don't think those guys were switching for less money
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 13 September 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
I was gonna say I figured only the writers who alsodo TV and maybe pods get the big bucks but shit, they kinda all do TV and pods nowadays
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Sunday, 13 September 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
I occasionally see a mention of or ad for podcasts from local newspaper people or former sports talk radio people and it seems a lot like they have listeners in the dozens.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 13 September 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
my neighbor is a sports radio guy. the conglomerate that owns pretty much all the stations basically fired/laid off the full staff of three different stations and then un-fired most of the sports guys within a week after public outcry. I really think they had no idea what people cared about listening to, wanted to keep something and didn’t know what, and just canned everyone to see which fanbase yelled the loudest
― mh, Sunday, 13 September 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
Defector should sponsor a Chrome extension that changes deadspin to defector.com for people who still start typing it out of habit
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 13 September 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
Noticed this in a Defector story:
https://defector.com/defector-a-roaringly-successful-website-beloved-by-several-thousand-people-is-now-offering-special-holiday-gift-subscriptions/
More than 30,000 of you have purchased subscriptions to this site since it was announced, and that’s allowed us to do the work we’ve been doing.
Way upthread from Silby:
if all the contributors on that masthead become full-time employees they need like 13,000 annual subscribers at $69 a year to pay them all $50,000 a year, plus a bunch more to pay for the CMS and so on. That'd be a very high conversion rate of the erstwhile pre-ratfucking deadspin audience, but it's also not an objectively large number of customers.
So it seems like they've more than doubled this goal, and 30,000 at $69 comes out to over 2 million dollars, though the subscriber number is larger than that. Plus some subscribers are paying more than the basic $69 a year. Not bad.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 November 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
and they do have ads so
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 28 November 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/business/media/apple-gawker-tim-cook.html
Two Gawker veterans sold the idea to Apple TV+, the new streaming service: Cord Jefferson, who left the site for a career writing for TV, and Max Read, Gawker’s former editor in chief. Apple hired two more former Gawker editors, Emma Carmichael and Leah Beckmann, as writers, and they had completed several episodes, people close to the production said.Then, an Apple executive got an email from the company’s chief executive, Tim Cook.Mr. Cook, according to two people briefed on the email, was surprised to learn that his company was making a show about Gawker, which had humiliated the company at various times and famously outed him, back in 2008, as gay. He expressed a distinctly negative view toward Gawker, the people said. Apple proceeded to kill the project.
Then, an Apple executive got an email from the company’s chief executive, Tim Cook.
Mr. Cook, according to two people briefed on the email, was surprised to learn that his company was making a show about Gawker, which had humiliated the company at various times and famously outed him, back in 2008, as gay. He expressed a distinctly negative view toward Gawker, the people said. Apple proceeded to kill the project.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 13 December 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
Whoops!
― is right unfortunately (silby), Sunday, 13 December 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
interesting stuff at the end of that about appletv’s struggle to develop any big tv shows of merit and how that relates to their squeaky clean corporatist bootlicking culture
― k3vin k., Sunday, 13 December 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
and of Apple News, a well-curated, if unexciting, app that is reportedly where President-elect Joe Biden gets his information.
― k3vin k., Sunday, 13 December 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
how is that not surprising
But now, from beyond the grave, Gawker is revealing another reality in this era of media consolidation: that the chief executive of one of the biggest companies in the world, who testifies before Congress and negotiates with China, also decides what television shows get made.
I do not see how this is actually any different than the head of 20th Century Fox finding out someone hired a bunch of people who tried to tank the studio to make a series about their efforts. Casting this as a First Amendment issues is, if I’m being generous, disingenuous. No one deserves to have their television show produced.
― DJP, Monday, 14 December 2020 00:07 (three years ago) link
I think the issue is more that the information that we get is increasingly dispensed by fewer and fewer companies, which is a serious problem.
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, 14 December 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
Really? Information? I feel like information is more democratized than ever (a serious problem during a pandemic).
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 14 December 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
Last thing I want is new information, I’ve had plenty
― is right unfortunately (silby), Monday, 14 December 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
in one way this sucks but in another way i was spared a tv series about gawker
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
yeah it was bad when that article framed it as “first amendment issue” (?lol)
― k3vin k., Monday, 14 December 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
Max’s most recent thing in BookForum is tedious in any that I was genuinely concerned about him.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 14 December 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
lol @ "Scraper"
― buzza, Monday, 14 December 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
I do not see how this is actually any different than the head of 20th Century Fox finding out someone hired a bunch of people who tried to tank the studio to make a series about their efforts.
This is more like 20th Century Fox killing a series because the show runner once worked for someone who was critical of 20th Century Fox 10 years ago.
Things can be completely expected and still frowned upon.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Monday, 14 December 2020 00:42 (three years ago) link
So all of you saying that all of the news sites that have gone under or consolidated in recent years is a good thing?
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, 14 December 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
Yes, that is what we are saying and not that an entertainment show exists at the whim of the people bankrolling it and trying to get the dude you harassed for years to pay your salary is at best a reach
― DJP, Monday, 14 December 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
Like, it’s understandable that the Gawker alums might try to spin their experiences into Prestige Television but it’s incredibly dumb to think that Tim Cook wouldn’t be like “oh those people? fuck every single thing about them”
― DJP, Monday, 14 December 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
Or is the idea now that it’s okay to out someone if they make too much money?
― DJP, Monday, 14 December 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
The gawker crew’s adventures in outing really came back to haunt them over and over
― buzza, Monday, 14 December 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
closeted skeletons
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Monday, 14 December 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
Max would have been like 15 when Tim Cook was outed by Gawker.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Monday, 14 December 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link