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I try not to be too grumpy, but you know, in light of the recent thread on here about paying for online content (bad!), paywalls (also bad!) and anything but st
by x0x0 11y ago
I try not to be too grumpy, but you know, in light of the recent thread on here about paying for online content (bad!), paywalls (also bad!) and anything but static, self-hosted, non-targeted image ads worth probably under 1c cpm (other ads are superbad!) this is sort of the inevitable outcome...
I actually find gawker sites pretty amazing. You can dislike some of what they publish, but they've succeeded at the most important thing: making enough money to pay writers and keep publishing. And they regularly, by accident or not, commit serious acts of journalism!
- patmcguire 11y agoDeadspin is actually pretty good. Sports journalism is kind of the opposite of tech journalism: smart things written about dumb people.
- jolux 11y agoWhy do you think athletes are dumb?
- patmcguire 11y agoYeah, I thought about this before I posted. I mean, they're not explicitly selected on intelligence, so you get the full spectrum of people. And there are a lot of dumb people in the world, which kind of gets cut off by the process of deciding who gets to be on TV, etc, unless you're also a good athlete.
- jolux 10y agoMost quarterbacks actually are quite smart. And also there are plenty of dumb people who get to be on TV: take Wolf Blitzer for example.