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Because you’re obtusely missing the point--these outlets were not sustainable as constituted, so if it wasn’t Tronc or Thiel or whatever, it would have just been something else. 

Sinclair Media isn’t a market correction but it’s not anything new. There has been major news sources spouting bullshit forever. Sinclair Media is just another form of it, what with their packaged lies and must-airs. And Sinclair Media existing has nothing to do with newspapers closing down, so I don’t get your point.

The notion that private equity is killing traditional media outlets is analogous to the argument that General Motors killed the streetcar.

I’m 30 and I’m the only one of my friends that I know that owns a subscription to a newspaper. 

Tell me about it. I buy 2 physical papers (Philadelphia Daily News, New York Post) and subscribe to a Sunday paper so I can access the pay wall (Philadelphia Inquirer) and subscribe to a local paper for local information.

I’d love to know what papers people actually pay for when they are complaining about the death of legacy media.

They could not have done that to the NYDN if people actually BOUGHT. PAPERS. Whether it was investment group douchebags, or local owners, or even an ESOP platform, they, like all papers lose money.

The New York Daily News wasn’t profitable. How is that not a market correction? It was literally sold to Tronc for $1 because the liabilities were more than the paper’s value. 

America has also lost five million manufacturing jobs since 2000. The Daily News layoffs affected 40 people yet seem to have spawned 400,000 Very Important Takes from every dip ship on Twitter who was dumb enough to get a print journalism degree (yours truly included).

Am I wrong to think that there’s a heavy dose of irony that this particular brand of lament is posted here on Deadspin, where many (most) times facts take a backseat to hot-takey opinions? This place is just as culpable in the death of traditional media as anywhere else. In fact - name me one outlet private or

I also think the “News” sections may have been subsidized all along by the personals, the sports section, etc. Now those sections really do have superior competition online.

Blaming money hungry PE types for this issue is akin to accusing executioners of murder. Sure they kill people, but all Executioners really do is their job. You could argue executioners are still bad people but they are literally just doing what they are told as part of a legal system of justice in the US (which I

No, his point was the statement that now is an incomparably bad time to be alive is hopelessly over dramatic and short sighted. More importantly, it is factually false.

Helluva nosedive over the last 52 weeks.

Know what else should not exist? Left wing people who judge a book by its cover. Try watching it to find out if it actually IS offensive. You and your ilk are like left wing versions of foxtards who refuse to watch sasha Baron cohen, even though SBC sets up democrats the same he does republicans. Get into the habit of

No one is forced to watch it, but our intellectual superiors need to protect us from all the harmful things in society.  They tell me that they know what is best for the rest of us.  

This your first time Interneting?

Wah. Wah. Don’t support it. Move on. It’s always something.

Are people being forced to watch this show?

Here is a crazy idea watch the series before calling for it to be cancelled. Also from what I read about the series this doesn’t seem like fat shaming at all, it seems like the opposite of it.