Gawker just largely talked shit and towards the end got on some great writers to be more serious but no one questioned it was mostly sarcy, talk smack gossip (which in the end was what destroyed the company).
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Well the whole enterprise ballooned a few years back didn’t it, there were video teams for every site regardless of point. There’s been botched crossovers like JezeRoot (which was always The Root doing all the work and Jez not really doing much).
I think the modern “guild” approach makes far more sense than the modern union approach. A self selecting membership organization that has its own standard of quality. For these organizations to survive they must be a mark of quality, otherwise they’ll just spur more outsourcing and automation.
“Believing the victim” means exactly what you just said: a crime has been reported, we will investigate it fully because we believe a crime has been committed, and we need to get to the bottom of it.”
This has been a textbook case for why skepticism is always healthy and how wrongheaded the “believe victims” mantra of modern progressives is. A lot of people didn’t feel his story added up and/or was way too perfect when it first came out but were afraid to express skepticism for fear of being branded racist and/or…
“Pro-Trump acolytes and conservative media have jumped all over this case because Smollett confirmed that the attackers called him a “nigger” and “faggot” and said “This is MAGA country” while beating him.”
I prefer a proprietary 78% Nitrogen/20% Oxygen/1% “other stuff” mixture, myself.
Nitrogen fill is expensive. They can’t just get that from the air you know.
I don’t like the pro-life march. I don’t like his MAGA hat.
“ we didn’t see what we saw.”
Translation: “I didn’t watch the footage at all but I think if I keep pretending I have then what’s in it will match up with what I say is.”
Sandmann is a serious threat to news outlets all over America, because most of them reported that he did things, that video clearly refutes. Most of them reported that he approached Phillips and got in Phillips face, but the reverse is true. And then instead of retractions, corrections that cast aspersions on…
You’d think between this and the Smollett case people would take a few minutes when served these oh-so-perfect narratives before parading them around as somehow reflective of our entire country (or the white part of it, anyway).
Cops aint stupid. This is a charged case with the gay and black elements.
No doubt they put their best people on, tons of oversight, making sure they cannot be accused of being corrupt or racist or whatever. My guess is they put a black detective on lead.
You and I both know, first thing Jussie does as a defense is…
I have nothin but love for this entire community. But lets be real here.
Not to paint too broad of a brush stroke here, but a lot of “creatives” I know aren’t exactly the most analytically minded people.
When I first heard the story my initial reaction was that it sounded exactly like what someone in Hollywood thinks a hate crime looks like, but I was willing to give him the benefit of the…
I’m very, very sympathetic to the trans community and quite frankly I don’t think it matters what gender you were born for things like marriage or military service or anything like that. However, the problem here is unique precisely because this is a sport that is segregated by sex (biology, not sociology mind you). A…
By not “going against them.” This isn’t about persecuting her. I feel bad for her.
“Fundamental” might be doing all the work here. There’s certainly a lot of important differences, but we can always quibble whether a difference is “fundamental.”