Good people make mistakes too. This was a big mistake by Hall. That doesn't mean you should lose all respect for him.

Seconded. And if that isn’t possible, SBNation needs to relaunch LongForm with her at the helm.

You know, I have to agree with Stout here. If he had allowed Bergeron to make the edits she wanted, it would have killed Arnold’s authentic communication. Unfortunately, what he was authentically communicating was his total lack of concern for the women Holtzclaw raped.

I wish Gawker had cared this much about how something got published when they outed a private citizen and protected his blackmailer.

I feel like the general philosophy here, re: Spencer Hall’s culpability in this piece’s publication is: “look, Spencer Hall has a really really good track record of being intelligent, well thought-out, and compassionate. He obviously made a mistake, but we don’t think it’s endemic of a systematic problem in the way…

Thank you. Let’s be very, very, clear: Bergeronis the hero here. The only hero. And Stout is but one of many villains and dummies here. He and all the other male editors who read this piece of shit and did NOTHING and allowed that article to get out. It was in the world of white men who know everything and when…

Man, she really does have guts.

Anybody, apparently, except the writer and the editor in charge of the piece.

I find it really entertaining that gawker is pointing the “ooooh look what they published” finger. Did we already forget about the Conde Nast CFO story?

That doesn’t really address a lot of the larger questions about his role for me; he is the editorial director and this piece doesn’t pin nearly as much blame for this on him as it does for others involved. In fact if anything it does some legwork to at least partially clear him of blame, making it explicit that he was…

This is a great piece. I have one quibble. Arnold, Stout et al didn’t “forget that these women were black.” For them, it just easier to have empathy for Holtzclaw because he’s a former football player and half-white. There’s a difference.

Could you do one of these on Gawker’s piece outing the CFO of Condé Nast?

Same thoughts here from another fan of Spencer’s; this seems like the kind of potential bomb that he could’ve at least have the story held until he’s all caught up upon coming back from vacation.

This is why diversity is important in every field and business. It is easy to mistake a consensus for the right choice in any given situation. If we all agree, it MUST be the right thing to do.

A homogeneous group might come to a decision faster and easier, but it might not be the right one.

A diverse group might be…

My brother writes for an SBnation blog covering the Women’s BB team at the school we went to. He doesn’t get paid but he still likes it. I do wonder if a lot of the other writers are getting paid tho.

Has Hall said anything publicly about this since the apology? Did he participate in this article outside of the small quote about Glenn?

I think it’s a little unfortunate that they had to suspend the entire platform.

“SB Nation is a virtual monoculture, built to profit from writing done with minimal infrastructure devoted to it and deeply unserious about ambitious things.”

a longform on a longform.

+1 Greg. You write better than you sprint.