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I 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 negati
by xhkkffbf 4y ago
I 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.