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	[quote name="understanding"][quote name="The Immortal Hulk Hogan's Durag"]and I'm being tongue in cheek.[quote name="saltlord"]and Google's grasp of advertising doesn't result in Evony-tier ads going up all over the place.[/quote]I was commenting specifically around how Silicon Valley is the current object of hate (In addition to Thiel I guess) right up in the headline.[/quote]Funny, I was commenting on how the new manager put in charge of Deadspin, a well-designed site that didn't torture its readership with stupid ads and bullshit ways to make money, drowned it in garbage ads and cheap attempts to increase short-term profits, which the staff protested, which resulted in a firing of a pretty good writer. There are places on the internet the rest of us go to read things. Deadspin was one such place for me, and I'd ask you to read David Roth before you tell me there's nothing worthwhile there. He's good enough that his name got put in a byline elsewhere too. [quote][quote name="saltlord"]it is a wonder how they could possibly fuck up publishing hit pieces[/quote]<i>I dunno about that</i>. The outcome seems pretty clear. Again, look at what the company reps said on the stand and do you <i>really</i> wonder?[/quote]That doesn't make any sense. These people have their pick of talent. They can get any editor, writer, or investigative reporter they want; they can pick any story offered them that they want to publish, and they still chose this. Silicon valley is full of lecherous tech-lords who grind their own kind to death without paying overtime. Thiel specifically wants to avoid all taxation and responsibility to any country (seasteading institute), have his head preserved in working condition and pumped full of the blood of the young like a vampire lich (life extension research), and build the new automated gestapo (palantir); any of these are great smears if you're the MSM. And that's just what we know about him already, what we can hang around his neck without even explaining his fintech leech work on PayPal. The ammo to launch against him could fill crates, but the best and brightest in the MSM throw a softball because they choose to, over and over. <i>They could print anything they wanted to about him, and they still went with some limp-wristed bullshit.</i> [quote][quote][quote name="Well anyway"]Why is his character vile[/quote]Because he helped a successful case against the media. saltlord will provide the 'good take' on the vile sins of the high-risk homo weirdo Thiel.[/quote]You've already heard my reasons, but if they really feel threatened they're doing an incredibly poor job of crying foul and waving the bloody shirt. Do I have to explain why it's the Failing New York Times again? Do I have to tell you that cable news viewership is down, that traditional media viewers are moving to new media, that the old system is failing regardless of who's buying it up? Really.[/quote]