Hogan v. Gawker Royal RumbleFollow

But it sure sounded like a good talking point.

Gawker staff writers stand united behind the integrity and quality of their "news".

There are good writers there, like Evan Narcisse, for Kotaku (and now Io9, and a few others still hanging on...)

But this flailing out article there is just so Denton-Smirk. And so Denton-why-say-anything. He will just smile and smirk to his last dollar and doesn't seem to give a **** about a lot of decent writers (yes, there are some) being out of work due to his intransigence and hubris and stupidity.

Guess what would've taken less money? Settling for say, Hulkster for $20 million or somerthing. Settling now. Settling anytime. No, never. Settling is for losers, or for people who aren't me but instead care about workers on my site, who can't afford me being full of hubris and stupidity.

Most good writers have jumped ship as they saw their boss didn't give one **** about their care/continuing employence. Charlie Jane Anders gone, smartly. Etc.

Gawker is a black hole with Denton at the center. It's sad. If he cared at all about the site he'd immediately resign and settle with all complaitants. That would keep the site alive. Instead he'll grind it into nothingness. And it's also amazing that a few writers there resigned over the decision to redact Jordan Sergeants' blackmail gay outing article. As if that was the hill to die on. Good riddance. Would be a nice site if the owner and wrirters were decent. Again just sad. Just like Television Without Pity used to be good. Or Jumping the Shark. And yet in this case didn't even take a sale to a new owner.

Did I mention that Jezebel and other sites were ordered to focus on this election cycle? And that's why Jez is **** now with 50% politics?

When your list of Very Important Journalism articles includes stuff like "Once a half-rotten dead racoon washed up on shore and Gawker was there to cover it!" it might be time to just admit that maybe the world will get along without you.

The note they make about having some of the best-paid writers was sort of a coincidence with talking about Forbes the other day. Forbes gave up any pretense of journalistic excellent online when it went to allowing basically anyone to write clickbait articles for them. It was a huge financial success and they went up like 400% in revenue for the site. A few writers have done very well and been paid a lot (although most make nothing because their articles aren't generating enough clicks to warrant a check so they're getting paid in "exposure"). Anyway, paying a handful of people a lot of money isn't indicative of them actually deserving it as, say, Marissa Mayer could tell you.

Jezebel was always shit.




*ducks*

You and I must belong to different internets.

Do tell us what sites/comment sections other than Jezebel are as well-populated by women seeking advice from other women due to harrowing situations. And/or other sites about concerns, re: women issues.

You just need to copy-paste the urls here. Shouldn't be difficult, since that is your claim. To do so. Either... Do so.... Or STFU. If your reply does not include a url then your post is to be ignored.

Edited, Jun 4th 2016 9:46am by Palpitus1

I miss Emily Yoffe as Prudence. It was nice to hear common sense answers to certain questions once in a while.

Yoffe was indeed great. A good reason to go to Slate, sad she's gone. It's remarkably coincidental though that you plucked out one word "Slate" of Jophiel's ******** response, to champion. Well, I guess you just really love Yoffe. Or something.

Never daring to call out Jophiel on some BS here...

...just pluck a random thing out to praise...

Whatever. Joph's reply was BS. Agree/Disagree Yes/No/ whatev let's just talk about Emily Yoffe or whatever and not commit to anything. Coward. Poseur.

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WTF.


Edited, Jun 4th 2016 10:21am by Palpitus1

I think I broke the Armenian Feminist

Edited, Jun 4th 2016 2:15pm by Jophiel

Vice has some reasonably good reporting of stories that wouldn't traditionally get coverage. I think it has value as a news agency.

Like 'em or hate 'em, Facebook and Tumblr probably generate a million times more supportive female bonding missives each day than you'll find on Jezebel. It's not as though, if Jezebel drops, people won't have anywhere left to talk to other women and seek support about various topics. Heck, there might be other places as well... I'm not really the target demographic for telling you all the places women go to discuss rape survival. Saying that it's the comments section of a clickbait "news" site or nothing else compares is obviously stupid though.

Vice is good. A bit too idealistic for my cranky old self sometimes but there's a lot of interesting stuff that gets put up there.