The Ringer is Live

And he'll still bitch about how he never had a chance to make it the old-fashioned way b/c of the old boys network.

 

Dipshit who hires white 20-somethings gets busted for hiring diversity.

https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/bill-...-on-him-after-he-is-championed-for-diversity/

 

Sad truth is "only" 84 percent white is pretty low in the media industry. I'd say The Ringer is better than 95 percent of major media outlets. TV will be "diverse" in front of the camera, but not behind it. Radio? No. And Print? Maybe not even trying to put on appearances.

 

No doubt about it, but Simmons is too lacking in self-awareness to know when to sit one out. As we all know, he NEVER sits one out.

 

It's 86 percent.

And I'm sure they are trying to get to 90 soon enough.

 

This reminds me of the Simpsons gag w/the MTV VJ aging out on screen. "But I'm only 32!"

 

No raises, more work and laughed at when asking for promotion.... the ringer is every newsroom in the country after all

 

As I read over the names who signed this, outside of one or two, who could leave there and, substantially, negatively impact the revenue-producing part of The Ringer?

Sometimes in this business, you work to have the name of the company on your resume. Then you make the money at the next shop. Any ESPNEWS anchor can attest to this.

 

At The Ringer, Staff Writers Say They Are Second-String

 

I wonder if this makes the celebs with podcast reconsider their approach. Those retired athletes all belonged to a union at one point and I don't know if "union buster" is something that they or Jemele want attached to their brands. Maybe the celebs don't care, but I would have to imagine that they could get podcasts elsewhere. It will be hard to hear Rachel Lindsay and Van Lathan speak up for the disenfranchised while they are also being used to screw over the no-names at the company that produces their podcast.

 

I think that one mistake a lot of mid-sized organizations like the Ringer make is to de emphasize the importance of a good HR director. When a start up is created there is a feeling that an HR director is not a revenue producer and the whole function is ignored. Employees are caught up in the excitement of the start-up and are generally happy.

But then the organization grows and at some point someone needs to figure out issues like promotion paths and sexual harassment policies.