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Wait, so let me get this straight: nine people lost their jobs over this and it's front page HN? Are we gonna have a nuclear war the next time a startup closes

Wait, so let me get this straight: nine people lost their jobs over this and it's front page HN? Are we gonna have a nuclear war the next time a startup closes up shop? Is there something special about The Nine that separates them from the hundreds of thousands of scientists and doctors and engineers and burger flippers who get laid off everyday? Y'know, like, other than having journalist friends?

icebraining 7y ago
CityLab is a popular publication on HN, with over 1400 submissions and usually over a hundred comments on each. It's normal that people care more than about other companies.
- lainga 7y ago
  I get the feeling I could make some kind of comment here about an aristocracy of labour, especially given that it's motherjones
  - sandoooo 7y ago
    The means of mass communication is the new means of mass production.
    - jachee 7y ago
      Is it time to seize it?
      - sandoooo 7y ago
        well idunno, last time around the people who seized it did a pretty piss-poor job afterwards. mostly they just ran it into the ground, in fact. there's a lesson to be learnt there.
nabilhat 7y ago
It's not about the nine people. It's about the perceived guileless neutering of a media outlet by a far more powerful entity with financial attachments to a financially formidable presidential candidate. Of course, it's too early to know if the perceived outcome is the intended or actual outcome. Whatever the outcome, this is still an event remarkable far beyond the bounds of those nine journalist's social circles, regardless of where the actual cause falls on the continuum between incompetence and malice.
- mc32 7y ago
  But they were let go before the deal happened, so if anyone is the baddie it's CityLab/The Atlanic itself!
  - busterarm 7y ago
    Well, the remaining folks could have gone anywhere, but now that they're employees of Bloomberg Media, they're expressly forbidden for writing anything _critical_ of any Democratic candidate for President.
- Proven 7y ago
  neutering how? did the laid off have non-competes?
ahoy 7y ago
This story fits into a larger context of wealthy investors buying up media properties and gutting their staff. It's extra relevant b/c Bloomberg is outrageously wealthy and running for president.
- umeshunni 7y ago
  The right thing to do in those situations is clearly to just let the media properties die rather than salvage them.
tqi 7y ago
Headline said "half" and most ppl didn't bother to read the article, so assumed it was a much larger number?
subpixel 7y ago
Bloomberg is running for president and his prior company shares his name.

icebraining 7y ago

CityLab is a popular publication on HN, with over 1400 submissions and usually over a hundred comments on each. It's normal that people care more than about other companies.

lainga 7y ago
I get the feeling I could make some kind of comment here about an aristocracy of labour, especially given that it's motherjones
- sandoooo 7y ago
  The means of mass communication is the new means of mass production.
  - jachee 7y ago
    Is it time to seize it?
    - sandoooo 7y ago
      well idunno, last time around the people who seized it did a pretty piss-poor job afterwards. mostly they just ran it into the ground, in fact. there's a lesson to be learnt there.

nabilhat 7y ago

It's not about the nine people. It's about the perceived guileless neutering of a media outlet by a far more powerful entity with financial attachments to a financially formidable presidential candidate. Of course, it's too early to know if the perceived outcome is the intended or actual outcome. Whatever the outcome, this is still an event remarkable far beyond the bounds of those nine journalist's social circles, regardless of where the actual cause falls on the continuum between incompetence and malice.

mc32 7y ago
But they were let go before the deal happened, so if anyone is the baddie it's CityLab/The Atlanic itself!
- busterarm 7y ago
  Well, the remaining folks could have gone anywhere, but now that they're employees of Bloomberg Media, they're expressly forbidden for writing anything _critical_ of any Democratic candidate for President.
Proven 7y ago
neutering how? did the laid off have non-competes?

ahoy 7y ago

This story fits into a larger context of wealthy investors buying up media properties and gutting their staff. It's extra relevant b/c Bloomberg is outrageously wealthy and running for president.

umeshunni 7y ago
The right thing to do in those situations is clearly to just let the media properties die rather than salvage them.

tqi 7y ago

Headline said "half" and most ppl didn't bother to read the article, so assumed it was a much larger number?

subpixel 7y ago

Bloomberg is running for president and his prior company shares his name.