“US diplomatic assurances are not worth the paper they’re written on,” Robinson said, according to the outlet.

“US diplomatic assurances are not worth the paper they’re written on,”

The U.S. has stated that it does not consider Assange a journalist.

Someone wants the US to make promises and expect them to be held? Have you SEEN us over the past...ever?

Tldr after Gawker was sold and Spanfeller eventually took over what became G/O media, his genuis idea was to de politicize Gizmodo Groups writing, beginning with his famous mandate to stick to sports to Deadspin.

How do they make money off destroying all these popular sites?

Wow - nothing will really drive home the complete and utter lack of long-term planning than watching all three in a row!

Jezebel was reformed just without Kinja. However, its quality it still left to be desired atm. Aftermath is the staff-helmed old Kotaku and has the decent writers back, but it requires a payment sub to comment.

Spanfeller’s stewardship of Giz:

Deadspin - Dead (most of former staff formed Defector, a staff owned and managed successful subscription based site that remains profitable into its 4 year, website was sold to a publisher I never heard of)

tl;dr - Kotaku is a zombie site.

This is a bummer but what would be cool is if Kotaku could be done with Jim Spanfeller, a man who is both an herb and hilariously bad at his job.

reminder that this website sucks:

This doesn’t look like a how-to guide for BG3, does Spanfeller know about this?

“But hey, talking about Madame Web still beats investigating the actual debate over whether Sweeney’s boobs are killing wokeness.”

“Seeing as no one can be normal about her”

It is a bit weird that people are playing hardware-intensive games like Hogwarts, Cyberpunk, Starfield, RDR2, etc, on the Deck. Aside from looking and running poorly, they’ll drain the battery real quick, undermining the whole point of the Deck: portability.

Similarly, a lot of people who are backing her now were screaming about her character in Mandalorian being Woke up until she was fired.

Hell, it’s hard to “cancel” someone even if they’ve done really fucked up things. R. Kelly had to be a practicing pedophile for over twenty years. And, more importantly, stop having hits.

In short, they call it “canceling” because they can’t comprehend the idea of consequences.  

“Following a years-long controversy that’s currently awaiting litigation against Disney…”