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Do you have any evidence for that claim?
by kevinh 7y ago
Do you have any evidence for that claim?
- manigandham 7y agoI’m in adtech and know enough publishers. I can’t share exact numbers but readership is way down. Constant political stories and culture outrage doesn’t make good sports reading. Contrast this with barstool sports which is doing well.
- slg 7y ago>Constant political stories and culture outrage doesn’t make good sports reading. >Contrast this with barstool sports which is doing well. There is a high level of irony in these two comments considering Barstool doesn't "stick to sports" either. They just approach a lot of the same issues from the opposite direction as Deadspin.
- pasquinelli 7y agoWhen people talk about politics they mean other people's politics. When they talk about their own politics it's just common sense.
- manigandham 7y agoBarstool has noticeably more coverage of actual sports and much less divisive political and cultural content. Low-brow/college humor is very different than left vs right politicking. It is not surprising that you will suffer audience loss when picking one side of the battle.
- tclancy 7y agoThey literally became famous for their daily “smokeshow” content. If that isn’t politically divisive I don’t know what is.
- big_chungus 7y agoA magazine targeting men distributing pictures of scantily-clad ladies? The humanity! On a more serious note, I don't hear any issue with tabloids putting guys in speedoes on the front, let alone hear it called, "politically divisive." What distinguishes the two?
- manigandham 7y agoAlong with their sports coverage, yes. And how is “smokeshow” politically divisive?
- darrmit 7y agoI’m not surprised to see this given what has happened to Gizmodo. It used to be one of the few tech sites I’d check daily but it has basically just become a constant stream of global warming and left-wing propaganda that even I, as left leaning, got sick of having rammed down my throat. Contrast that with another G/O Media site, Jalopnik, which continues to be one of my favorite sites on the Internet. The Verge also seems to have moved on mostly from trying to straddle “culture” and tech and is better for it.
- selectodude 7y agoYes, of course. Here's Deadspin sticking to sports in 2017 https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-full-transcript-of-donald-trumps-black-history-month-1791871370 https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-full-transcript-of-donal... Here's Deadspin sticking to sports in 2016 https://adequateman.deadspin.com/the-2016-hater-s-guide-to-the-williams-sonoma-catalog-1789529261 https://adequateman.deadspin.com/the-2016-hater-s-guide-to-t... Here's Deadspin sticking to sports in 2013 http://deadsp.in/cgmoid5 http://deadsp.in/cgmoid5 2012 https://deadspin.com/what-happens-when-a-35-year-old-man-retakes-the-sat-5893189 https://deadspin.com/what-happens-when-a-35-year-old-man-ret... I'm done diving into the archives but that's a pretty hot take you're throwing out there.
- manigandham 7y agoOf course they have extra content, but your links show that those articles have gotten more numerous and political over time.
- sylens 7y agofound the stoolie
- manigandham 7y agoI have 0 interest in sports or either of these 2 sites.
- dang 7y agoPersonal attacks will get you banned here. Please follow the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- tclancy 7y agoReadership isn’t down because anyone who goes to Deadspin was offended by politics. That you would compare them to Barstool as an equivalent suggests one of us is badly confused. The company has been bought by a series of wet brained “investment” professionals who never bothered to discover what they bought. I have no idea why you would buy what was Gawker and then think neutering it would make it better.
- manigandham 7y agoBecause Gawker did so well? Every media company is suffering massive losses and downsizing. There never was some great success here.
- traderjane 7y agoAren’t sports news tending toward data oriented reporting with online community?