This is an interesting and lucid post. But the true and simple explanation is buried in the 2nd half of the story: we’re terrified of being sued out of business, thanks to Charles Harder and the former Deadspin editor who posted revenge porn on Gawker. Our legal training at a large digital media company this year was…

Hey Keenan, the officers were Mauricio Rodriguez Jr., Steven Smith, and James Long.

I would love to hear all your stories.

This is a very good question that I’d like to know the answer to. I’ve wondered the same thing.

Nope. There’s no way to tell if they’re making a net profit or not from these docs.

The real “Valleywag” story is that they needed to spend $100s of millions in advertising to GET to these revenue numbers (the ads arewhy you’re writing about them in the first place), and when both companies ultimately collapse it is…

He was the guy that put Alex Smith on his ass 4 seconds after the whistle on a play that was dead because he was clearly offsides.

Von Miller should’ve been ejected last night.

+1

This was prescient.

Pretty sure Mr. Baseball used to be Weed Homer, who used to be Dwyane (@collatingbones.)

Smarm alert. You should add a note. Would love to see the Slack conversation behind changing the top tag.

Way to republish 5/7ths of Matt Klinman's piece — now I have no need to leave Jezebel!

Can we please get a list of all the various ways that Samer has described Gronk over the years?

Not a violent guy, but I wanna donkey punch him in the face.

I believe you.

Kinja fuckin' works. Exclusive images that took a day of reporting simply dumped on this stub that took 30-seconds to write via a commenter.

this is a good comment

That's embarrassing. Who spells 'dek' with a C?

+1 steamer down the middle

Would love that, and I'm a Skins fan