Deadspin editor quits, blasts G/O management

Yeah, that'll buy lunch. Once.

 

10,000 people paid at least 69 bucks on Day 1 for this?

Twitch

Twitch

 

He can't drink because of his brain injury, but he can get as stoned as he likes, so that's what he does.

 

Exactly. You would think that someone as obsessed as Alma would know that.

 

I like Julie's writing and radio voice, and she's definitely not wrong here about women in sports media.

The Problem With Mark Grace and Sports Media

 

Drew on SLR.

Sunday Long Read (with Drew Magary)

 

There's something a little too Taibbi'ish about the quote at the end of the paragraph:

Across the country, women are being pushed out of jobs in sports media, and the public doesn’t seem to notice. Or care. Maybe it’s because of the pandemic. Maybe it’s because the women who had broken into sports broadcasting were still outliers, and going back to all men just feels like going back to the status quo. But I can tell you from experience that it matters. Nearly every week, Hendricks and I would get calls from parents listening with their daughters. Once, on a remote broadcast, a small girl stood in front of us, an enormous smile on her face. “Mommy!” she exclaimed, “those girls are talking about sports!”​

Close your eyes and tell someone to read that quote and it's straight out of a Taibbi dispatch from the political trail.

Otherwise Julie's post is good and timely and relevant.

 

Chuck Modiano, "citizen journalist who writes for Deadspin," was making the rounds in D.C.

 

I wish the new site was up and running. I tried reading one of Deadspin's NFL previews ... absolute trash.

 

Patience is a virtue.

 

Zombie Deadspin still doesn't have comments enabled. It's just bizarre - I get Kotkau's email newsletter, and part of that is that they'll include 5 to 10 other stories from the other GO Media sites, like Deadspin. The only ones that ever make the cut from Deadspin are items that don't stick to sports. Some of the stuff I've read has been fine, but management basically burnt things to the ground in order to make a new version that's the same thing but way less robust. (Hey, I just described 21st century journalism, yeah but still.)

 

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