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Great Hill, and specifically, Paul Maidment ruined Deadspin forever. His name should not be forgotten. That scumbag hypocrite Peter Thiel, for as loathsome and
by exogeny 4y ago
Great Hill, and specifically, Paul Maidment ruined Deadspin forever. His name should not be forgotten.
That scumbag hypocrite Peter Thiel, for as loathsome and vampiric as he is, is only half guilty.
- astrange 4y agoKilling Gawker was Thiel’s only good act. They started out that trial by saying they’d publish a sex tape of a four-year-old in their deposition.
- xhkkffbf 4y agoI must agree here. This article suggests that injecting some snark into sports journalism was somehow revolutionary. It isn't. It's easy to be snarky and negative. It's harder to be generous, balanced and thoughtful. Gawker and Deadspin were all about snark and, in retrospect, no one really misses them.
- spamuel 4y agoAgree. I think the praise here is coming from the fringe "very online" demographic that are wrecking the media and entertainment environment. Few people read Deadspin. Few people read Defector. Few people watch SportCenter anymore because they try to emulate Deadspin. Professional sports broadly have lost significant viewership because they listened to the media noise around them. It seems like these things are only successes if your goal of success is reclaiming sport as a pass-time of the idle-handed elite. Because commercially this turn has been a profound failure.
- astrange 4y agoWas Deadspin mainly about snark? I didn’t really read it but got the impression it was mostly the same very online journalists as every other blog, writing the same things as every other blog, ie anxiety pieces about things young people in cities think is important. That’s a good business if it gets other online people to form parasocial relationships with your writers, but it’s bad if every piece starts and ends with “but what’s really important is this political issue I just saw a tweet about”.
- exogeny 4y agoYes, SportsCenter's ratings are down because they try to emulate Deadspin. No other colluding factors in there, no, not at all! It's because they're all social justice-y and trying to tell me I can't shoot me guns!
- icelancer 4y agoI miss the OG Deadspin while simultaneously denouncing what they did to Thiel. That crossed the rubicon.
- exogeny 4y agoThe fact that you think Deadspin in particular was all about snark basically certifies to me that you have no idea what you're talking about.
- icelancer 4y agoThiel being the bad guy in the Gawker v. Thiel situation requires a hell of a lot of contortionist thinking or just blind hatred for rich people.
- exogeny 4y agoOf course he is. He's a thin-skinned, self-hating hypocrite who uses his power inappropriately. This is the same Thiel who pals around with people who tell gay professors to "go die of AIDS". This is the same Thiel who fights tooth and nail for free speech on social media platforms, but bankrolls an entire lawsuit -- in shadow, of course, because he's afraid of being obviously called on the hypocrisy -- against Gawker because his previous fee-fees got hurt. This is the same Thiel who believes, almost unilaterally, that corporations should be able to do what they want without interference. The same one who backs disingenuous, sociopathic goons like Blake Masters and J.D. Vance, and continues to back Trump despite all of his moral cowardice and treason. I'm suddenly supposed to believe that he's some altruistic, moral figure? Why? Because some people didn't like Gawker's tone? Fuck that. Thiel is slime.