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Deadspin editor quits, blasts G/O management

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Regan MacNeil, Aug 16, 2019.

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  1. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    Tom Scocca was busy writing about cupcakes and shit.
     
    Regan MacNeil, Nov 7, 2019
    #385
  2. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    About halfway thru this. Interesting line ...

    “Fulcher 2 Stay” became the signature Bengals zone-blitz call, in the same manner Doug Plank is forever associated with the “46” defense in Chicago. As Wyche notes, “The 46 eventually got figured out. Dick’s Spinner defense never has.” But while Plank is a romantic figure and the heart of book-length paeans to the ’85 Bears, only devout Bengals fans even remember Fulcher, let alone credit him for being a linchpin in a stratagem that changed the NFL. As for LeBeau, that Cincinnati’s archrival, the Steelers, have benefited the most from his brilliance is Shakespeare-level tragedy.​

    Really? Only devout Bengals fans remember Fulcher?
     
    Songbird, Nov 7, 2019
    #386
  3. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    What is the world is this fantasy sentence from?
     
    Double Down, Nov 7, 2019
    #387
  4. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Hell no. He was a beast in early 90s Madden.
     
    CD Boogie, Nov 7, 2019
    #388
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  5. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Or the weather
     
    CD Boogie, Nov 7, 2019
    #389
  6. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    That's what I'm saying.

    You watched football you knew Fulcher.
     
    Songbird, Nov 7, 2019
    #390
  7. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    playthrough, Nov 7, 2019
    #391
  8. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    CD Boogie, Nov 7, 2019
    #392
  9. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    This is actually pretty informative about how clueless otherwise smart people can be.

    They spent a lot of time talking about the clueless private equity guys who didn't understand what deadspin does, didn't like the site, etc., and probably had some short-term plan to profit by destroying it. ... which may very well be true.

    But they never address (and may not even know) if deadspin was financially successul or profitable when those people bought it. Because it really matters.

    Let's say deadspin was losing a few mil for the year (Gizmondo as a whole was losing money when it was sold, reportedly). Is the expectation that someone was supposed to buy it and run it as a charity, so the editors and writers could stay pure to what they thought made the site so great?

    Later in the interview, Petchesky is talking about the art of blogging and he says, "There were a lot of good blogs in the year 2010 and 2011, and they’ve slowly been dropping out over the past few years. And now that Deadspin’s gone, there’s one less good blog in the world."

    I wonder if it ever occured to him to ask if there is a reason WHY "good blogs" have been "slowly been dropping out"?

    I'm not saying that to pile on or be a dick. I love how passionate they were about the site, and if I am running a business, I really value people who are that committed to, and passionate about, what they are doing. At the same time, that commitment and passion is only worth something to someone if the product can earn enough of a profit to make it worthwhile.
     
    The Big Ragu, Nov 7, 2019
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  10. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    I have had my beefs with Scocca, so this will seem like it's fuelled by that, but he really does write about some weird shit. I took a look at his new thing, Hmm Daily (which has since failed, I believe), and it was thousands of words about his family road trip, and I was like, What rational person thinks anyone else on Earth will want to read this? It was like a really long Facebook post. It struck me very much as a "critics are critics because they can't do" thing. It was really bad.
     
    typefitter, Nov 7, 2019
    #394
  11. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    I checked out Hmm Daily a few months ago after hearing that's where he landed. I never visited again. It was nonsense.

    Yeah, he's one of those guys who overwrites and can't pull it off. The Awl was just rife with that crap. And his weather posts, JFC, there isn't enough pot in the universe for me to smoke to think that people would want to read my musings on the weather. Perfect example of someone who was given too much encouragement at a delicate stage in his writing development. Now he's just fucking ruined.
     
    CD Boogie, Nov 7, 2019
    #395
  12. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    In other words, a site that prided itself on being the antithesis of legacy sports media eventually ran into the same problem.
     
    playthrough, Nov 7, 2019
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