salon vs. slate vs. atlantic

salon VS slate on twitter = tawdry clickbait death match. just by reading the headlines I've learned a LOT about my penis

http://www.salon.com/2014/08/21/welcome_to_toddlercore_how_dressing_like_a_2_year_old_became_the_fashion_worlds_latest_craze/

uhhhhhhhh

oh what the hell

?

jesus fuck

https://twitter.com/blippoblappo/status/562283289986486273

looks like any old day at Slate tbh

haven't read her piece but Dana Stevens is pretty good

http://www.theatlantic.com/

goddammit

this fuckin mobile design era

i dont know where to put this, but here'll do

In 2011, when Isaac Lee, president of news for Univision, set out to persuade his company and Disney to back Fusion, a digital news service and cable channel he wanted to start, he promised nothing less than the holy grail: young viewers for the older media conglomerates.

He played a slide show in which a middle-aged white man transformed into a young brown woman. The executives present were dazzled.

http://www.teenidols4you.com/blink/Actors/mccauly_culkin/SG_161245_Culkin.jpg

irl lol

is it just my browser/computer or did slate change the fonts (to something terribly ugly)?

http://gawker.com/how-progressive-are-the-media-liberals-1721339149

on salon not recognizing their writers' unionization acceptance yet

would be hilarious if they dropped them all

not hilarious for humanity of course

but still

wow did salon management not consider how hypocritical this was going to look considering that their primary beat is left-wing outrage?

is it normal for unions to form instantly after voting? (genuine question, wondering if there is some intermediary negotiation phase between vote and actually having union)

the story notes several quick acknowledgments etc

they have to register w/ the larger union they're joining (in this case Writers Guild East) but it doesn't sound like that is what is holding it up

the story notes several quick acknowledgments etc

― j., Friday, July 31, 2015 4:10 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it only mentioned that the guardian's was instantaneous but didn't say how long it took for gawker's to be acknowledged. just wondering if this is actually an unusual amount of time to wait

unfortunately probably not

can confirm this is mgmt stonewalling plain and simple, like if they stick their fingers in their ears it will just go away--they may be preparing to force an NLRB certified election, where they'd have the opportunity to undermine WGE.

The Huffington Post is a progressive news site. It is only a matter of time before some of their employees ask to unionize. Will Arianna Huffington, a good liberal, support their request?

Buzzfeed has publicly stated its commitment to a variety of progressive ideals. It is only a matter of time before some of its employees ask to unionize. Will Ben Smith and Jonah Peretti support their request?

aaaaah you fuckin guy

WGE and my org are jockeying for the same places, and hamno just gave their organizing committees a big WGE wink and a nudge

ha, crazy

http://www.ibtimes.com/saloncom-recognizes-union-ending-monthlong-standoff-editorial-staff-2034756

hell ya

will union labor decrease the quality of Orange Is The New Black thinkpieces? A Vox explainer

i'm just glad it shook out right, this has been some bullshit

salon is an OG 90's-era west coast internet property; resistance to collective solidarity isn't surprising in the least

fucking rich technohippies

salon can't have that much money, maybe at one point when it was the future of journalism, today it's a miracle it's still around

I mean a terrible miracle mostly

and lo on the seventh night the clickbait still burned

http://i.imgur.com/RdADR4M.gif

http://i.imgur.com/u96OJgU.png

that reads like it's by the vox dude who dislikes eating

How to stop writing for The Atlantic

The piece that got him blackballed is pointless and vapid, ftr.

couldn't have happened to a more deserving writer imo

lol at him characterizing his incredibly nasty and smug remarks in that piece as "i mentioned in passing..."

anything that means less of his shitty and worthless writing on the internet is a good development

I was trying to think of anything he'd written that I could remember reading prior to this - came up empty.

http://i.imgur.com/avoatxf.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ0Sv3DWIAAAkvO.jpg

http://thebaffler.com/salvos/omniscient-gentlemen-of-the-atlantic

lol

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/2/six-hot-media-startups-to-watch-in-2016.html

lol lol

Al Jazeera America has removed the satirical piece originally posted on this link, which included commentary on our company that we believe was not appropriate given its imminent closure.

nooooooooooooooooooo!!!

lmao it was so good

surely if anything al-jazeera's imminent closure is what made it appropriate

anyway no right to be forgotten

more perma link https://web.archive.org/web/20160225134033/http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/2/six-hot-media-startups-to-watch-in-2016.html

salon about to become faintly ridiculous in a different way

http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/08/new-salon-very-different-from-the-old-salon-004705

Can't possibly be worse

oh sure it could!