It’s really impressive. Got me defending someone calling her a child and everything. Bravo Splinter. 

I, I um....smashed my guitar for ‘research purposes’

I think they are seriously attempting to drag every popular mainstream democrat before election day in two weeks as much as possible. Warren, Obama et al.

Just cuz it’s bait doesn’t mean we shouldn’t point out that there’s a trap here.  Worth pointing out the trap to people who might follow, even if we get stuck in it ourselves.

You couldn’t have phrased this better. Splinter is the only place I am out of the grey’s since Gawker’s demise, but the past few months I haven’t even bothered here and have spent my commenting time trying to get ungreyed at io9 and The Slot, because wtf is Splinter turning into besides a bad hot take machine?

Because it’s definitely woke white folk who need more representation, amirite?

Christ, I felt dirty just typing that, and I’m white as the driven snow.

Sure but I don't think getting all of your readers to say "you're wrong" is a perfect long term strategy. 

I sort of disagree in that I tend to view “bait” as being inherently not sincere.

pretty sexist to describe a 28 year old female journalist as a child

Yeah, I jumped on that bomb too. But goddamn, I would never have thought that exposing your stupidity would be worth clicks. And yet here we are...

Fuck. And we all fell for it.

The model was never good for TV news — and it’s only gotten worse financially. That’s happening at a time when Americans can’t differentiate reality from reality TV and don’t have patience to be bored by newspeople yapping on about something unimportant like climate change when we could be covering ANOTHER SHOCKING…

Well, no, this isn’t a pox-on-both-political-houses kind of issue. Fox News operates on an entirely different conceptual framework than mainstream news networks. Fox carries water for movement conservatives, on behalf of a viewership that is 1) conservative, 2) believes fervently that all other media networks are an…

The “tolerant right” just tried to mail-bomb George Soros’s home, so Gaetz can absolutely lick my goddamn oyster.

It’s almost like unfettered capitalism is a bad thing! That relying on a centuries old system of mercantilism that could never have predicted the rise of a global economy, asymmetrical power systems, communications technology, and the rise of devices that allow us to actively deceive one another could somehow go…

We are all the woman behind her:

Wasn’t 27 the age David Carr was when he became fully shell-shocked in Houston?

The kinds of spaces you can afford as a start-up don't extend to such niceties. I'm just happy we get indoor plumbing.

Follow the money:

“Holy shit that’s an option?”