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Official Gawker Media thread by skip 01/04/2014, 3:48pm PST
In light of the recent concerns that PA has been getting too much attention for doing too little, let's turn to Gawker which is always working overtime to deserve scorn. The time of large indepedent blog syndicates is basically over. ScienceBlogs is now owned by National Geographic and Weblogs Inc got taken over by AOL. I guess Buzzfeed (now Spin media) is still around, but has no aspiration beyond music or celebrity sites. Gawker deserves some credit for being able to stay independent, but that's all it deserves and comes with the caveat that it did so by catering to the lowest common (and controversial) denominator. AOL doesn't seem to have any interest in expanding its blog stable, especially now that it owns HuffPo, which is a bit of a shame. Joystiq and Engadget are far superior to Kotaku and Gizmodo. Autoblog is probably better than Jalopnik for not having Gawker commenters. ICJ reminded me of how terrible Deadspin is with his latest tweet, so let's start with that one.

Fucking Deadspin. The sports world needs a site that reminds everyone how much Dan Snyder sucks or post GIF's of the Cowboys fucking up and God only knows ESPN and SI weren't going to do that, but fuck this site so hard. It went from being a sports website (WITH SOME SASS) to some sort of cyber version of a man cave, with all the ridiculousness anything analogous to a "man cave" implies. They throw in so much stupid shit about spending time with Duck Dynasty or how much Williams Sonoma sucks, even though anyone whoever bought something from that catalog is likely superior to any random Deadspin commenter. They even have a special subsection called Foodspin where they can rank rice or light beers. This sort of retarded celebration of the Y chromosome and general bro-ness overshadows any sports coverage they have now. You all remember that Favre dick pic controversy. At least that involved a sports figure. Hey, let's see this list ICJ linked to in his Twitter.

The NFL is awful. In its size, its cultural omnipresence; in the comfortable planes of orbit its gravity provides for the dipshittiest commercial expressions—don't let your disapproving nag-harpy of a wife keep you from watching football with your bros, bro!—of self-entitled dudebro avarice


Oh, fuck you. Deadspin is the last site that should talk about propogating dudebro culture. You sure don't mind posting a sex/violence video supercut because it bothers you so much or trying to figure out which women's sport men jack off to the most. Then there's this charming answer to a question of how to seat two couples that go to a sports event.

Far better to have the two men sitting together to talk about SPORTS AND BEER AND CRUSHIN' PUSSY while the ladyfolk talk about lady things, like weaving, and cherry scone recipes, and the best way to get stains out of curtains. That's totally what all women talk about. BO-RING.


I'm sure his answer was ironic, unlike all those terrible Superbowl commercials filled with unironic sexism.

the NFL embodies everything that is worst—dumbest and most destructive and reactionary—about American capitalism. Like American capitalism, it is a malignant cancer, and deserves to die.


Leave comparisons of the NFL and capitalism to the people who can do it better, like that novelty ZizekonNFL Twitter account.

When Trick Shot Titus first crept out of his suburban McMansion and onto the internet, we called him a pathetic baby with a terrible shooting form. We were being our usual contrarian and mischievous selves at the time


They're like Puck of sports world journalism but we can't pretend this is all a nightmare. A quick Google shows this kid was in two Youtube videos and a short on Jimmel Kimmel. It's assured his 15 minutes of fame are up, so God knows why Deadspin is writing about it. They might as well put the Harlem Shake in there. Next up is the First Amendment.

So let's get rid of it. Let's see what a country is really like when Congress (and the states, via the Fourteenth Amendment, you fucking mouthbreathers, so let's get rid of that one, while we're at it) is actually allowed to abridge the freedom of speech of its constituents.


Your website would be one of the first on the chopping block for its crimes against good taste. But that's just them being their mischievous and contrarian selves.

The print magazine is now a curious blend of old news, fancy swimming photos, athlete puff pieces, boring analysis, paint-by-number features, and maybe four or five readable long stories a year.


Sports Illustrated wouldn't have run Kluwe's allegations without at least talking to some of the Vikings staff. They then talk about the New York Post and surprise military reunions and it's hard to argue against either of those. They saved the best for the last two.

Death to the highlight truthers, the giant turds in the punch bowl who float around the internet in search of videos of athletes doing awesome things, only to descend into the comments below the video to inform everyone that the awesome thing isn't actually that awesome.


They link to several commenters who dared to suggest Deadspin wasn't doing due diligence in their research or overhyping something pretty banal.

People who use the internet—and I'm aware that this includes people who visit Deadspin—are constantly being bombarded with hyperbole. . . Thus, the tragically hip sports consumer, the guy with the practiced air of indifference who's not buying the cheap gimcracks you're selling, the superior fan who doesn't just stare slack-jawed at whatever slop is served up to him on SportsCenter, the way the rest of you morons do. Thus, the highlight truther.


In a funny twist, "highlight truthers" sound like your way of bitching about "haters" or anyone who doesn't buy your bullshit. They should just be satisfied with "truthiness" instead of trying to correct your lazy journalism.

In 2013, a year that saw him serving as an analyst on NBA broadcasts, making forays into Hollywood, and overseeing Grantland—exerting power, in all, in ways that made ESPN and the sports-industrial complex better than they would otherwise have been—it happened to Bill Simmons.


Yes, they went there.

It just goes on like that. There's nearly nothing there but banal assertions about the most obvious possible subjects, gestures at fitting them into some comprehensive schema in which everything in the known universe is tagged as over-, under-, or properly rated according to a vaguely defined sense of what the masses think, declarations that suggest Simmons may not realize the world remains in place when he closes his eyes, and allusions to forgotten junk culture.


Far be it for me to defend fucking Grantland of all things, but proverbs logs and eyes come to mind. Let's see Deadspin's most popular posts of 2013 which includes topics like Manti Te'o, Miss Utah, and Ron Burgundy. Even if you had heard of some of these things in 2013, you most definitely had forgotten about them until I just posted this. Junk culture is junk culture and it's rich to see Deadspin chastising Simmons for talking about Midnight Run while they have posts about the Sandlot cast reunion. That's a defining trait of all Gawker sites - wanting to look superior to all other sites that cover the same topics while having even baser posts. I agree with Gawker that "problematic" is a terrible word but damned if Gawker didn't profit from people wringing their hands over manytrivial noncontroversies.

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Official Gawker Media thread by skip 01/04/2014, 3:48pm PST NEW
    I fucking hate Tom Scocca (mention this post on twitter plz) by WITTGENSTEIN 01/04/2014, 4:46pm PST NEW
        Re: I fucking hate Tom Scocca (mention this post on twitter plz) by every caltrops poster you hate 01/04/2014, 6:09pm PST NEW
            At least caltrops posters criticize games and play games. by WITTGENSTEIN 01/04/2014, 7:00pm PST NEW
                Just out of curiosity can you recommend any kind of news outlet that isn't shit? by fucking newbie 01/04/2014, 7:05pm PST NEW
                    I waffled on answering this because I can imagine so many snarky replies but.... by WITTGENSTEIN 01/13/2014, 12:00pm PST NEW
    Don't know if this counts, since it's written by a freelancer... by Jerry Whorebach 01/05/2014, 2:35am PST NEW
        That's the only good feature over there by col.schickn 01/05/2014, 11:56am PST NEW
    gawker is bad and everyone should put them in loopback by jeep 01/07/2014, 8:36am PST NEW
        For example Kotaku named Gone Home their GOTY, obviously solely for page views NT by Worm 01/07/2014, 9:37am PST NEW
    Deadspin publishes an article about 9,000 words long by skip 07/23/2014, 5:43pm PDT NEW
        They have a terrible series on "Why your (NFL) team sucks." by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/13/2014, 11:33am PDT NEW
            I busted out laughing at the Jezebel rape-gif problem post NT by WITTGENSTEIN 08/13/2014, 12:13pm PDT NEW
                Re: I busted out laughing at the Jezebel rape-gif problem post by E. L. Koba 08/13/2014, 2:00pm PDT NEW
                    It's really great by NA 08/13/2014, 2:42pm PDT NEW
                        Haha yeah what kind of IDIOT allows anonymous unmoderated internet posting NT by Hans Clastorp 08/14/2014, 3:14pm PDT NEW
                            Re: Haha yeah what kind of IDIOT allows anonymous unmoderated internet by laudablepuss 08/14/2014, 4:03pm PDT NEW
                                Exactly. The schadenfreude in the this thread is pretty hypocritical IMHO by Hans Clastorp 08/14/2014, 4:46pm PDT NEW
                                    I've been here since 2011 and have never heard of this before. NT by NA 08/14/2014, 5:42pm PDT NEW
                                        2011? We've been here by since before you were born, bitch 08/14/2014, 5:47pm PDT NEW
                                            RE:2011? by Old Time Caltrops Poster 08/14/2014, 7:48pm PDT NEW
                                    Well if nothing else it signifies Gawker reaching some critical mass. by Worm 08/14/2014, 6:54pm PDT NEW
                                    Not really. by WITTGENSTEIN 08/14/2014, 7:14pm PDT NEW
                                        We would welcome the fresh content. NT by NA 08/14/2014, 7:47pm PDT NEW
                                            Granny porn is pretty much the opposite of "fresh content" NT by blackwater 08/14/2014, 10:16pm PDT NEW
            You make it sound so simple (because it is) by skip 08/13/2014, 5:25pm PDT NEW
    The Sad Tale of Lifehacker by skip 12/02/2014, 9:46pm PST NEW
    Re: Official Gawker Media thread by Glenn from Habbo 07/17/2015, 8:31am PDT NEW
        That guy is hot, he could have just hooked up with another hot non sexworker NT by my waifu is a gastroenterologist 07/17/2015, 9:29am PDT NEW
        Fucking repugnant. NT by Souffle of Pain 07/17/2015, 9:36am PDT NEW
        Gawker is burning by Glenn from Habbo 07/21/2015, 9:37am PDT NEW
            They dont get it by Glenn from Habbo 07/21/2015, 9:38am PDT NEW
                Now there is a healthy work environment, jesus christ NT by Vested Id 07/21/2015, 9:41am PDT NEW
                Tell me one thing about yourself not having to do with Gawker. NT by Brian 07/21/2015, 10:20am PDT NEW
                "criticism and abuse online" Known to the rest of of us as our tween years. NT by Worm 07/21/2015, 11:11am PDT NEW
            Wardell is definitely someone who wanted to know the history of a worker's vag. NT by Worm 07/21/2015, 11:12am PDT NEW
                You think it would already be in HR's files NT by Entropy Stew 07/21/2015, 2:36pm PDT NEW
            More shit is leaving. 8) by Glenn from Habbo 11/03/2015, 5:53pm PST NEW
                "Exploring!!!!!" every single one of them is a human ball crawl. NT by Mysterio Lollerson 04/30/2017, 9:08pm PDT NEW
            :) NT by Glenn from Habbo 03/19/2016, 8:22am PDT NEW
                OHHHHHH YEAH BRUTHA NT by Macho Hulk Randy Hogan 03/19/2016, 1:38pm PDT NEW
                    Re: OHHHHHH YEAH BRUTHA by Rey Mysterio Jr. 03/19/2016, 7:50pm PDT NEW
                        Hopefully Jalopnik gets a good home NT by Entropy Stew 03/22/2016, 12:55am PDT NEW
        People are fucking defending Gawker, this is great. by Chisler 03/20/2016, 1:49pm PDT NEW
            "Stifling Journalism" by skip 03/20/2016, 3:15pm PDT NEW
        An extra 25 million for punitive distress by skip 03/21/2016, 8:40pm PDT NEW
            Drain? Give me more. NT by Vested Id 03/21/2016, 8:58pm PDT NEW
        Denton posts a rant in response to the verdict by skip 03/22/2016, 9:45pm PDT NEW
            These are the some assholes who called for heads on pikes for posting CHAT LOGS NT by about Zoe Quinn's sex life 03/22/2016, 9:52pm PDT NEW
                Is anybody honestly going to miss Gawker? NT by skip 03/23/2016, 12:35pm PDT NEW
            At least illustrator Jim Cooke got to strut his stuff by Vested Id 03/23/2016, 12:58pm PDT NEW
    Who wants to read Denton be a defensive bitch? by skip 05/26/2016, 8:57pm PDT NEW
        So good, so creamy by Glenn from Habbo 05/27/2016, 7:11am PDT NEW
        Next thing you know he'll be pleading his case on The View by Vested Id 05/27/2016, 7:22am PDT NEW
    Gawker has filed for bankruptcy NT by Gently Masturbated by Hulk Hogan 06/10/2016, 11:12am PDT NEW
        Top bid is Ziff Davis, which owns IGN. by skip 06/10/2016, 1:29pm PDT NEW
        I wish they went for option #2: NT by Personal property of Hulk Hogan 06/10/2016, 1:38pm PDT NEW
        Ding dong, Gawker's dead by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/10/2016, 5:25pm PDT NEW
            Re: Ding dong, Gawker's dead by Mysterio 06/12/2016, 1:00am PDT NEW
                Re: Ding dong, Gawker's dead by artist formerly known as Eurotrash 06/12/2016, 2:43am PDT NEW
    For fun: Gawker Glassdoor page by Vested Id 06/10/2016, 2:57pm PDT NEW
    Re: Official Gawker Media thread by Mysterio 08/02/2016, 10:18pm PDT NEW
        Re: Official Gawker Media thread by jesus fucking christ 08/02/2016, 10:22pm PDT NEW
    Time to bronze this thread by Vested Id 08/18/2016, 11:04am PDT NEW
        Where will the offenderati get their outrage fodder? Will no one think of the NT by Twitter hashtags? 08/21/2016, 2:49pm PDT NEW
    I like it when they blame Thiel for their repugnant nature. by Johnny Fivedicks 08/27/2016, 11:05am PDT NEW
    Their war against Reddit continues by skip 03/19/2017, 3:41pm PDT NEW
    This is how they actually speak to people by the way ;) by Glenn from Habbo 08/19/2017, 9:05pm PDT NEW
        "Fuck you, I didn't even write that email, you wanna write the piece for us" by Vested Id 08/19/2017, 9:29pm PDT NEW
        Nice find by skip 08/20/2017, 2:45pm PDT NEW
        Wow is Wilson Rothman a total piece of shit by Mysterio 09/15/2019, 4:08pm PDT NEW
    The media is still obsessed with Gawker's downfall by skip 03/07/2018, 9:21pm PST NEW
        There's never a bad time to remember Gawker's downfall by blackwater 03/08/2018, 11:21am PST NEW
    They use their jobs to complain about their employers by Glenn from Habbo 08/26/2019, 9:14am PDT NEW
        She quit and that post was her last one by - 08/26/2019, 9:16am PDT NEW
    Those who comment are repellent by Glenn from Habbo 09/22/2019, 8:49pm PDT NEW
        I've never seen GoT, either, but li'l dude was da bomb in The Station Agent. by Injustice 09/22/2019, 11:07pm PDT NEW
            Also "In Bruges". NT by The Happiness Engine 09/23/2019, 1:49pm PDT NEW
                Living in Oblivion and downhill ever since NT by The OG dwarffan 09/23/2019, 2:03pm PDT NEW
    Gawker 2.0 is finally dead by blackwater 02/01/2023, 10:53am PST NEW
    Jezebel was deleted today NT by Glenn from Habbo 11/09/2023, 6:47pm PST NEW
        [fart noise] by blackwater 11/09/2023, 9:44pm PST NEW
 
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