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

lmao @ the Jeet tweet

Max on Chris Hayes last night

holy shit somebody wrote spon con about their dead sibling https://t.co/d7Iu6taoCZ

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) January 10, 2019

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwk2bX9XQAAYPRa.jpg:small

and for a volvo ffs

i couldn't finish the whole thing but what was the problem with it exactly? that it's tacky he wrote a story about his brother's suicide for an auto blog and kinda pegged it to the car he drove around? the narrative itself is... fine.

did he get to keep it?

i couldn't finish the whole thing but what was the problem with it exactly? that it's tacky he wrote a story about his brother's suicide for an auto blog and kinda pegged it to the car he drove around?

in this story about this writer’s brother there is one (1) picture of them both and five (5) pictures of the car as well as numerous paragraphs about what a smooth, enjoyable ride the volvo provided as he made his emotional pilgrimage around to places in ireland of great personal sentimental value

look i know we all love seeing ads everywhere for everything all the time now but this one just left a bad taste in my mouth for some reason 🤷‍♂️

For the world at large, this is the only experience they’ll ever have with him. There’s a weight on me, then, to make it something real.

he's an intern for gawker for cars and needed some car related peg obv to write about his brother - if the writing hadn't felt so sincere i'd hold it more against him but i feel like he did the bare minimum to get published (the "i drove a volvo" line was so perfunctory). i guess i'm just sympathetic :/ he's obv an aspiring writer who misses his brother.

to his credit, he doesn't delve into a thought exercise about what his brother would have thought about the car

Editors shouldn’t let this happen.

this is a particularly over the top example of a kind of article jalopnik has been running for like 10 years

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.

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

he's an intern for gawker for cars and needed some car related peg obv to write about his brother -

he did not

not badly written. needed more about achill.

if he couldnt find a galvin in kerry he wasnt looking.

deems, how do you rate volvos?

premium runarounds

hes not wrong about that galway road neither

the details I really needed

hey ama

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.

the editor of the “new gawker” has some interesting editorial standards!!! pic.twitter.com/9f8x3nuGaE

— tasbeeh herwees (@THerwees) January 16, 2019

I don't understand plagiarizing and I especially don't understand pointedly plagiarizing like that ^^^. It's trumpian in the absurdity.

yeah, as per the plagiarized: "imagine taking the time to re-type and plagiarize this dumbass tweet"

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

The relaunched gawker is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of

The fans will know the difference. They were a fan of a gossip blog that covered the media.

The original tweet was super cringey, but to like it enough to plagiarize? Oooof.

She has some other terrible tweets:
https://splinternews.com/here-are-the-media-chuds-joining-fake-gawker-1831782448

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.”

here's the direct link to that story:
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/105853/breaking-bad-karma

xp- lmao

it goes in a differently terrible direction than you'd initially expect

it’s fuckin wild

who in their right mind would've thought those were words that should be committed to paper

Oh, stop being coy, holocaust denier, tell us why you are estranged from your Jewish father!

Heard an interview with Max earlier this week btw

https://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/260-fake-ass-internet/

so much for that whole "hiring reporters" thing

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gawker-writers-quit-over-editorial-director-carson-griffiths-offensive-tweets-workplace-comments/

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.

wow, just a straight up evil person, i hope she eats shit forever

hard to believe this can't-fail concept is failing

walking away from presumably lucrative gigs like this in the current media economy takes guts, so props to them

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.

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

lots of people knowingly work for shitheads and keep on doing it because $$$. I have certainly done this!

Oh her instagram is now private. It was very white linen hamptons. Ha and pic with Billy McFarland.

xpost The majority of companies are run by shitheads. How to choose?

very hamptons indeed

https://guestofaguest.com/new-york/you-should-know/you-should-know-writer-carson-griffith

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)