The S&P also carries risk, which owning an NFL team does not. The most incompetent, buffoonish owners in the league see their franchises generate consistent revenue and the values on those franchises increase significantly year after year.
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I don’t think the editorial and writing staff is made up (exclusively, or even a majority) of scumbags. There are some really, really interesting writers on these sites doing interesting work. (Jordan Sargent is vile little shit of a hack, but I think he’s the exception) Craggs and Read made a really, really bad…
You lost me.
You either believe in editorial independence, or you don’t.
Except this wasn’t a typical Gawker story, and it’s just disingenuous to pretend it was.
Wait, who is the “slimebag” in this scenario? The guy who thought that the story aiding a blackmailer to disclose potentially ruinous details of a non-public person’s sex life should be taken down, or the person who edited, posted, and defended said story?
I think your main mistake was to claim that something was “censorship” which was not under any reasonable definition.
You are portraying this as a case of one ad rep making the decision to pull a story because it made ad sales more difficult. This is not an accurate description. This was a wholly indefensible, vile story that made Gawker look terrible and did a lot of damage to the brand, and the senior management made the decision…
Neither “acting as the morality police” of your own website, nor pulling an article based on moral relativism and/or business interests on your own website is censorship.
But, it is different. Pulling a piece because it spoke ill of an advertiser is NOT the same thing as pulling a post because it contains nothing of legitimate public interest and it exposes embarrassing personal information about a private individual for no reason other than Gawker doesn’t like Reddit.
I’m afraid you don’t know what censorship is.
I think your example is a little off-point. Let’s say that you submit a design to a client for a building made of balsa wood 150 stories tall with a dynamite factory on the first floor, and for some reason, your supervisor agrees that this is a fantastic idea. The marketing department hears from the client that they…
Can you really one really complain about intrusion into “journalistic integrity and standards” when running, and then defending, such an egregious violation of journalistic integrity and standards?
But you certainly can’t argue that Simmons’ management of Grantland was really successful, can you? By all reports I’ve seen he was pretty beloved as a boss, and they did really good and interesting work under his leadership. If that’s what “treating them like friends” produces, then why would someone change that for…
Blech you’re gross and a turd.
You really aren’t helping.
Serious question for Natasha: if Roy had contacted you with these pictures and told you that he was attempting to blackmail one of the women but they wouldn’t pay him, would you have published his pictures of the woman in question and kept his identity secret?
Egypt. Turkey. Iran. Saudi Arabia. Israel.
That’s what we always gets wrong about these fundamentalists. As much as they hate the West, they hate other Muslims infinitely more.