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> Truckers are leaving containers all over Los Angeles.[1] There are so many of them, that they couldn't find a picture of one of them to illustrate the artic

by polote 5y ago

> Truckers are leaving containers all over Los Angeles.[1] There are so many of them, that they couldn't find a picture of one of them to illustrate the article

GuB-42 5y ago
G/O media is particularly terrible with illustrations. They once had an article abut the ISS with a picture of Mir as an illustration. I think they have a contract with a stock image provider, no photographer, and no one to seek out and license original pictures. Writer are probably asked to select an illustration in their stock image library. I think it is a disgrace to journalism. The front picture is, with the title, the most important part of the article, do some effort FFS, or don't put a picture at all.
- irrational 5y ago
  What is G/O media?
  - jrockway 5y ago
    That's the name of the company that publishes Jalopnik. Scroll down to the bottom, "Copyright 2021 G/O Media Inc".
  - dangrossman 5y ago
    > G/O Media Inc. is an American media holding company that runs Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Jezebel, The Root, The A.V. Club, The Takeout, The Onion, and The Inventory - Wikipedia
    - saagarjha 5y ago
      > G/O was formed in April 2019 when Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm, purchased the websites from Univision for $20.6 million. Is it just me or is that a shockingly low amount for those websites?
      - prostoalex 5y ago
        Over the past decade advertisers shifted spending onto deep targeting (benefitting primarily FB and GOOG) and re-targeting (benefitting any rando site with lots of pageviews) away from interest-based publishers.
      - x0x0 5y ago
        It is -- the sites sold for $135m in 2016 (out of the gawker bankruptcy) to Univision. Gawker media group was famously operationally well run and threw off lots of cash. After Great Hill bought them for $20m -- presumably with a ton of debt, or something -- they then put an idiot named Jim Spanfeller in charge. Jim managed to get the entire staff of deadspin -- also a profitable, well run site -- to quit en masse. Said staff later started Defector and are running it as a coop, basically. Defector has survived a full year running on subscription fees and largely without advertising (or maybe entirely without?).
      - bobthepanda 5y ago
        Online advertising nuked most media company revenues.
- mechanical_bear 5y ago
  You could have left it at the first five words.

by polote 5y ago

> Truckers are leaving containers all over Los Angeles.[1] There are so many of them, that they couldn't find a picture of one of them to illustrate the article

GuB-42 5y ago

G/O media is particularly terrible with illustrations. They once had an article abut the ISS with a picture of Mir as an illustration. I think they have a contract with a stock image provider, no photographer, and no one to seek out and license original pictures. Writer are probably asked to select an illustration in their stock image library. I think it is a disgrace to journalism. The front picture is, with the title, the most important part of the article, do some effort FFS, or don't put a picture at all.

irrational 5y ago
What is G/O media?
- jrockway 5y ago
  That's the name of the company that publishes Jalopnik. Scroll down to the bottom, "Copyright 2021 G/O Media Inc".
- dangrossman 5y ago
  > G/O Media Inc. is an American media holding company that runs Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Jezebel, The Root, The A.V. Club, The Takeout, The Onion, and The Inventory - Wikipedia
  - saagarjha 5y ago
    > G/O was formed in April 2019 when Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm, purchased the websites from Univision for $20.6 million. Is it just me or is that a shockingly low amount for those websites?
    - prostoalex 5y ago
      Over the past decade advertisers shifted spending onto deep targeting (benefitting primarily FB and GOOG) and re-targeting (benefitting any rando site with lots of pageviews) away from interest-based publishers.
    - x0x0 5y ago
      It is -- the sites sold for $135m in 2016 (out of the gawker bankruptcy) to Univision. Gawker media group was famously operationally well run and threw off lots of cash. After Great Hill bought them for $20m -- presumably with a ton of debt, or something -- they then put an idiot named Jim Spanfeller in charge. Jim managed to get the entire staff of deadspin -- also a profitable, well run site -- to quit en masse. Said staff later started Defector and are running it as a coop, basically. Defector has survived a full year running on subscription fees and largely without advertising (or maybe entirely without?).
    - bobthepanda 5y ago
      Online advertising nuked most media company revenues.
mechanical_bear 5y ago
You could have left it at the first five words.