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So unfair! If only a sports publication left it's writers alone to wander off onto non-sports related politics[1], ignoring the publisher's plan & repeatedly di
by throwGuardian 7y ago
So unfair! If only a sports publication left it's writers alone to wander off onto non-sports related politics[1], ignoring the publisher's plan & repeatedly digressing from the job they were hired to do, the world would be a better place.
[1]: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/dont-doubt-what-you-saw-with-your-own-eyes-1831931203 https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/dont-doubt-what-you-saw-wi...
- Xero 7y agoBootlicker
- avs733 7y agoRead their top ten most visited stories list [1] and tell me how many of those are 'sticking to sports.' You don't just get to assume reality...data is a thing and can be used to evaluate statements of what is true. [1] https://deadspin.com/the-top-10-most-visited-deadspin-stories-of-the-deadspi-5438483 https://deadspin.com/the-top-10-most-visited-deadspin-storie... (A year I arbitrarily picked because it was on top of google)
- makomk 7y agoEvery single one of the stories on that top ten most visited list is "sticking to sports", by the looks of it. My understanding is that the new owners are perfectly fine with stories that are even tangentially related to sports, they just objected to totally unrelated political activism like the story linked in the comment you're replying to.
- avs733 7y agoI'm honestly struggling with an argument that will call drunk people sports related just because it happened in a sports stadium...all so we can defend that capital class against critiques from workers.
- rdlecler1 7y agoThe new owners took over this year. Not 2010. They paid for the acquisition and it’s for THEM to decide what editorial direction the publication should take, not the journalists. Frankly, I personally don’t want politics and culture in everything I read and that can be a feature, not a bug.
- watwut 7y agoIf I understand it right, this was only publication that mixed culture and politics to sport. All others haven't done that and kept it sport only. Which means there are multiple publications available you would like, whether this one exists or not, and is read by people who are not you.
- QuesnayJr 7y agoAnd its for the writers to quit, torching the owners' investment. And that's what they did.
- avs733 7y agoGiven the multiple areas of content it would perhaps be better to look at the writers and the tone and the perspective of irreverence as the feature and, in fact, the the value. We are about to find out what is the true asset of deadspin...the name and the sports articles of the writers and their broad interests. If nothing it'll be an interesting experiment. You may not want a product, but if you bought the company that makes it, successfully, and tell them to suddenly produce something else you may well end up look like a stupid investor.
- rdlecler1 7y agoI’m going to bet they saw an established brand and audience but a company that needed to be turned around in a number of ways, and I bet it didn’t make money before.
- msbarnett 7y ago> Frankly, I personally don’t want politics and culture in everything I read and that can be a feature, not a bug. So read literally any other sports publication. Why do you object to anyone’s but your tastes being catered to anywhere?
- strbean 7y agoOh goodness, they posted about non-sports related politics on their subsite dedicated to non-sports related "Culture, Food, Politics, Whatever"?!? How dare they!?
- throwGuardian 7y agoYes! We really need ESPN writers' regurgitated opinions on "Culture, Food, Politics, Whatever", though the parent company owns different publications for all that. Instead of spending that energy on writing more sports stuff