One thing we can know for sure, it wasn’t Paul Maidment or Jim Spanfeller. They’d have fired Ben and walked out, leaving the doors unlocked. 

Hey folks, for anyone distressed at the shakeups going on at GMG sites and worried about losing access to a great community, there’s a Discord for GMG enthusiasts built for just such an eventuality. Some cool folks to conversate with too:

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May I suggest a new Deadspin mascott, Sticky; The Stick-to-Sports Stick. Sticky lives in Jim Spanfeller’s butt.

That won’t happen - criminalizing EULAs and “I hereby agree to the terms & conditions” is something that has been tried and tossed out before, as it would give webmasters partial control of a system that resides in governmental hands (criminal charging, trial, etc.).

I would make the argument a lot of our unhappiness is largely based on external factors. World events, social media (addiction), a sense of not belonging or meaning especially among the young. Hyper focus on politics and the world at large can result in a feeling of helplessness. Myself, to counteract this I have…

I understand the sentiment but for me playing video-games is a very private and solitary hobby - I play story driven games mostly and rarely play online. As such I do not remember that I share a hobby with people capable of such horrible and deadly deeds like swatting...except when I read stories like these. But then…

Why shouldn’t he take credit for breaking the story? He did, along w/ Twohey & Kantor. What happened to him is half the story - powerful people going out of their way to protect abusers; people systematically trying to destroy those who spoke out (including Farrow by not renewing his contract.) How does him saying he…

Obviously Ronan Farrow has led an extremely privileged life but this game of never good enough is just stupid. Women have been asking men to do work on these issues for years and here is a man, doing the work, and he gets shit on for what? Having feelings about it? God it pisses me off. 

I actually waited for a review of She Said, but it's still nowhere to be found on Jezebel. Weird, right? Why review a book written by women and about women if you can bitch that a man didn't write this book instead? 

I’ve been reading and commenting here under various burners for a decade. Since before there were even burners. The quality has waxed and waned and waxed again but the current crop of writers are bar none the worst during that time period.

God Jezebel sucks. It gives me no pleasure to point this out. A female-focused culture and politics site should be thriving in the current zeitgeist. And yet...vape snark and Daddy Bernie. 

But bitching and complaining is more fun. I’m sorry, but we complain all the time about men not stepping up and here we have a man who did just that. If he wrote a book about the victims, Megan would have complained about that too.

This review, in my reading, is like getting upset at Spotlight for not telling the stories of the victims from their own perspectives. That movie doesn’t set out to do so, but does set out to tell another compelling story about the same topic, but from a different angle. Both sets of stories give a fuller picture of…

Did he ever claim or present this book as anything but a real-life thriller about him getting a story out after being pressured and implicitly threatened not to?

Wasn’t the journalism itself about the victims’ experiences? This is the meta book about the journalism. I guess you wanted a meta book about the women’s experience in the journalism? It’s hard to read between the gratuitous swipes against Farrow’s sins, like a brief aside acknowledging he felt competitive, or stating…

It seems pretty clear to me that in the course of reporting the Weinstein story - which was presumably first a piece for NBC TV, which by necessity morphed into a print article when it moved to The New Yorker - a second story started to emerge. It’s literally in the title of this book, “Catch & Kill.” Killing Farrow’s…

I have not read this book. But it sounds from the review that this is just not the book on the matter that Megan wanted to read. I’m sure, however, it’s exactly the book that Farrow set out to write.

“Catch and Kill is paced like a thriller, and Farrow, the detective at the center, positions himself as the main character....”

The book is about NBC killing the story and Farrow trying to get it published.