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.There was a one-month period where I was posting there a lot for some reason (chronic messgeboars guy here, can’t help it), and what was frustrating was that even on the heavily trafficked, 20-minute old articles it was nearly impossible to get your comment approved
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 April 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
And on and older one, yeah, total waste of time to try to contribute. Cool system!!
what ever happened to "new gawker"?
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 8 April 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
it's still happening. now run by the guy who ran details for a long time. racist socialite girl is still there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/business/media/gawker-editor-dan-peres.html
― maura, Monday, 8 April 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
missed this when it was reported a couple of days ago
lmao obv
In the latest sign of editorial turbulence, the number two editor at the yet-to-relaunch Gawker is returning to Interview, the Andy Warhol-founded magazine that only emerged from bankruptcy in September.Ben Barna, who had been reporting to Editor-in-Chief Dan Peres, opted to return to Interview a mere five months after he joined Gawker, which famously filed for bankruptcy in 2016 after a Florida jury ordered it to pay $115 million for publishing a Hulk Hogan sex tape.Barna will be replaced by Nate Hopper, who is still listed as the ideas editor on Time magazine’s website. He also once worked at Esquire.A spokeswoman for Gawker’s new parent company, Bustle Media, said Hopper started in the new role Wednesday. Bustle, owned by Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg, bought Gawker out of bankruptcy in late 2018 for $1.35 million.Barna’s departure is just the latest setback in the notoriously snarky website’s relaunch. Gawker’s only two full-time writers quit in January in protest of an executive who they said used anti-gay slurs and made derogatory comments about Asians and celebrities deemed to be overweight. The site is now slated for a relaunch in “fall 2019.”
Ben Barna, who had been reporting to Editor-in-Chief Dan Peres, opted to return to Interview a mere five months after he joined Gawker, which famously filed for bankruptcy in 2016 after a Florida jury ordered it to pay $115 million for publishing a Hulk Hogan sex tape.
Barna will be replaced by Nate Hopper, who is still listed as the ideas editor on Time magazine’s website. He also once worked at Esquire.
A spokeswoman for Gawker’s new parent company, Bustle Media, said Hopper started in the new role Wednesday. Bustle, owned by Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg, bought Gawker out of bankruptcy in late 2018 for $1.35 million.
Barna’s departure is just the latest setback in the notoriously snarky website’s relaunch. Gawker’s only two full-time writers quit in January in protest of an executive who they said used anti-gay slurs and made derogatory comments about Asians and celebrities deemed to be overweight. The site is now slated for a relaunch in “fall 2019.”
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
in related but not connected news: https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/babe-net-aziz-ansari-date-rise-and-fall.html
― mh, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
seems like a remarkable number of stories about the stories of men accused of horrifying things include some version of the line "the now-defunct news site Gawker published a story about..." https://t.co/7QBzk3IGEj— Mark Berman (@markberman) July 10, 2019
― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 August 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
Yup.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 August 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
nice.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 23 August 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
big time banger
― J0rdan S., Friday, 23 August 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
now 13 captures on the wayback machine
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 August 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
Seems obvious that it won't stay up. It hits home way too hard to be allowed to live.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 23 August 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
Hm
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 24 August 2019 04:58 (four years ago) link
rip splinter
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 October 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
god needed a radical rat.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
this blows, they annoyed me sometimes but on the whole they put out a lot of really good stuff, especially HamNo but also Paul Blest, did Pareene write for them too?
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
the internet is shrinking
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
http://wondersinthedark.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/annie-hall-3.jpg"What is that your business?!"
― SHANTY the golden fish portion (stevie), Thursday, 10 October 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
at the beginning it was so big that i was afraid; i kept running and running
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 10 October 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
Yeah I didn’t read it that regularly but this is shit. And yeah Pareene did write for them!
― gyac, Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
How long til they gut Deadspin and turn it into SportsNation?
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
and yet according to Google (which ought to know) there are now over 30,000,000,000,000 individual web pages. But I'm guessing maybe half of them are for fake Louis Vuitton bags on Amazon.com.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
according to one of those hamilton nolan posts that was linked to on another thread (us politics?), the guy running the company who now owns the remnants of gawker used to run forbes, and during his time there he instituted a goal of five THOUSAND piece of new content every DAY. (that's what we that are not in the biz like to call the "forbes seal of quality content")
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 10 October 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
the ^good^ internet is shrinking, i mean, or even just the part of the internet that tries
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 10 October 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
saw this RTd and it's maybe the best thing they ever published
https://splinternews.com/how-to-not-die-in-america-1822555151
― Simon H., Thursday, 10 October 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
yeah the people now in charge of gawker and sports illustrated have specific experience in running terrible websites
also g/o media's slogan is . . . THE HEARTBEAT OF NEXT
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 October 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
more like fartbeat, imo
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 October 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
Whomp whomp
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a29501602/gawker-bryan-goldberg-bustle-digital-group/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 October 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
a man who appears to know what he wants but isn’t exactly sure how to get it
lol
― mh, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
G/O editorial bosses tell Deadspin no more non-sports coverage "Where such subjects touch on sports, they are fair game for Deadspin. Where they do not, they are not."https://t.co/6EP5hsOjky— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 28, 2019
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 October 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
RIP The Big Wet President
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 28 October 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
nvm, someone has given Roth the out:‘for all Trump articles you write, the first mention of him should be "Former USFL owner" -- boom, stuck to sports.’
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 28 October 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
Hi! I’ve just been fired from Deadspin for not sticking to sports.— Barry Petchesky (@barry) October 29, 2019
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
the deadspin front page is a greatest-hits array of their non-sports tuff right now
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
the internet was great for widely disseminating good journalism and commentary but we're running out of places that are actually allowed to produce it.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
i hear blogger.com is hiring
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
Earlier today, @JimSpanfeller, CEO of G/O Media, fired our colleague and longtime Deadspin Deputy Editor Barry Petchesky. This will not stand. We will have updates soon.— GMG Union (@gmgunion) October 29, 2019
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
i'll campaign for any candidate who promises to jail private equity firm execs en masse
― maura, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
Is there a good resource on how private equity works? Like a more extensive article than the HamNo one? I don’t understand how these firms are able to profit off of undermining the long term health of the companies they acquire—much less saddling them with debt. Are they not looking to flip them later?
― treeship., Tuesday, 29 October 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
this matt stoller newsletter is pretty good (scroll down a little for the PE bit):
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-private-equity-should-not-exist
― adam, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure if you acquired gawker/deadspin in order to strip political content from it, you acquired it to kill it
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
tbh the wikipedia article on asset stripping gets to a lot of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_stripping
― mark s, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
and basically no, they have no interest in flipping it at the end, there's often literally nothing to flip
― mark s, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
i am shocked that the former CEO of forbes.com would do such a thing. forbes.com is filled with so many articles. there are so many articles. and that's why forbes.com is the content provider we trust and don't just accidentally click on every once in a while. they've got everything on forbes.com
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
why don't likeminded gawker/deadspin editors + writers leave and start their own indie thing? they believe (and it seems like they're right) that what they're doing can be profitable/viable, why hang around on this sinking ship?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link
ask all the writers on ILM why they don’t start their own music rag
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
bc w/ a few exceptions we are not professional journalists?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
because there's still a start-up cost and pitching a journalism venture is incredibly tricky in 2019, even if it's a website concept with a proven readship
I could see some of the larger names from Deadspin giving it a try, but many of the former Gawker writers who did good, if sometimes less controversial, work have shifted to NY Magazine, The New Republic, and the NYT Magazine, among others
― mh, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
― Mordy, Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:07 PM (forty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
ok so ask the professional journalists
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link