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gawker is the worst and its perverse 'invade and recap everything' existence is one of the things that keeps me from being a media optimist.
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Before Gawker I had a diverse group of friends and while we didn't agree on everything we generally got along and respected each other. After Gawker I dumped everyone who doesn't march in exact lockstep with my correct viewpoints on life and even though I'm alone and no one can live up to my standards I take solace in that I'm right, I always have been right and always will be right and ultimately that is what's important.
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straight up brolic posted:gawker is the worst and its perverse 'invade and recap everything' existence is one of the things that keeps me from being a media optimist. Its too late because "real media" is just like them now. Snarky millennial writers, slideshows, clickbait, stories about twitter, feigned outrage, and more.
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Nov 3, 2015 21:58
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I keep going to Grantland by accident.
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chunkles posted:I keep going to Grantland by accident. Same. I have 10 minutes between meetings, don't want to do any work, and I keep going to Grantland to check out the shootaround article for the nights previous NBA games and then just get sad. I don't care too much about Simmons but I really did love that site.
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In actual important media news, perhaps even bigger than Grantland closing, and certainly more surprising than Deadspin editors ghostwring fake quotes for Greg Howard, Whitlock is bringing back The real Real Talk Podcast, not the lame ESPN version. How do you know this is the legitimate Real Talk, the best sports podcast ever, and not Real Talk adjace (the ESPN version), which sucked? His first guest is Big Deuce! You may remember Big Deuce as Whiltock's barber who came on the show and insulted Tebow for an hour straight. "We call dudes like him cock strong, he need him a woman" I still think of that line and laugh. To say I can't wait would be the understatement of the year.
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Man, Jonah Keri put up one last podcast, Ken Tremendous was the guest, good listen, and hearing the Grantland podcast tag was so 
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Lol at you parroting that dumb ghost writing thing over and over to support loving Jason Whitlock of all people
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It was extremely unethical.
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Alain Post posted:It was extremely unethical. Gawker has never given one good god drat about ethics though
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Agreed, they're dirty and them and Whitlock deserve each other.
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Nov 4, 2015 05:43
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Editors making suggestions is not "ghost writing" e: unless you mean him having a bad source for the grantland thing, which I guess is bad, but doesn't necessarily seem unethical. Adam Schefter gets bad info from a source and reports it like 80 times a week and no one seems too mad.
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African AIDS cum posted:Its too late because "real media" is just like them now. Snarky millennial writers, slideshows, clickbait, stories about twitter, feigned outrage, and more. Oh hi grandpa.
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Ribsauce posted:In actual important media news, perhaps even bigger than Grantland closing, and certainly more surprising than Deadspin editors ghostwring fake quotes for Greg Howard, Whitlock is bringing back The real Real Talk Podcast, not the lame ESPN version. Its weird that you like Whitlock.
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Nov 4, 2015 09:22
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ESPN wants those sweet sweet millenial clicks and are putting $200,000,000 into Vice Media
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That's Disney doing that not ESPN.
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soggybagel posted:Its weird that you like Whitlock. It's weird that he has the kind of giddy crush on Whitlock that an 11 year old girl might have on One Direction.
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Noctone posted:It's weird that he has the kind of giddy crush on Whitlock that an 11 year old girl might have on One Direction. I'll back him up a little bit on that, Whitlock in podcast/sports radio format is much much better than Whitlock as a journalist. The hot takes are somehow lessened in a notorious hot take format and the entertainment is better.
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Grittybeard posted:I'll back him up a little bit on that, Whitlock in podcast/sports radio format is much much better than Whitlock as a journalist. The hot takes are somehow lessened in a notorious hot take format and the entertainment is better. I get what you're saying here but "better than Whitlock as a journalist" is damning with the faintest of praise.
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I think Bill Simmons has finally gone off the deep end:@BillSimmons posted:My kids love the movie Pixels. If Adam Sandler started a church they would go there every Sunday to pay homage to him.
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Crazy Ted posted:I think Bill Simmons has finally gone off the deep end: During one of his podcasts last week he was talking about how he had to stop letting his 8 year old son watch South Park because his son told him to suck his dick.
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Crazy Ted posted:I think Bill Simmons has finally gone off the deep end: Kids under 10 love the absolute dumbest poo poo.
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Sooooooooo seriously what other sites are out there for good sports writing? I'm legitimately lose without Grantland.
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Ty1990 posted:Sooooooooo seriously what other sites are out there for good sports writing? I'm legitimately lose without Grantland. Sometimes sports illustrated, if you want stories as opposed to analysis.
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SBNation and Players Tribune are hit-and-miss but there are some good pieces on both from time to time.
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DJExile posted:ESPN wants those sweet sweet millenial clicks and are putting $200,000,000 into Vice Media And the tv channel is going to be known as Viceland Seriously
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Ty1990 posted:Sooooooooo seriously what other sites are out there for good sports writing? I'm legitimately lose without Grantland. Football and Rational Thought for all your football needs. Vertical Lime posted:And the tv channel is going to be known as Viceland No fuckin way
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Ty1990 posted:Sooooooooo seriously what other sites are out there for good sports writing? I'm legitimately lose without Grantland. There are none
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Crazy Ted posted:I think Bill Simmons has finally gone off the deep end:
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Crazy Ted posted:I think Bill Simmons has finally gone off the deep end: ? That seems like a normal little kid thing
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players tribune is terrible. It's like reading Pau Gasol's twitter feed.
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Kalli posted:During one of his podcasts last week he was talking about how he had to stop letting his 8 year old son watch South Park because his son told him to suck his dick. Simmons doesn't even pay attention to the show. He was supposed to say "present it" to him.
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MourningView posted:? That seems like a normal little kid thing Yeah I don't really understand what is weird or wrong or whatever about that tweet Anyway as far as there being alternatives for good, serious sports writing I can't come up with any, other than to wait for the writers who were recently in Grantland to settle into new places and start going there.
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FlamingLiberal posted:That movie isn't even aimed at kids. No kid is going to know who those characters are or what an arcade is. It's marketed towards Sandler's rapidly declining audience of manchildren. Kids like it anyway.
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The New Yorker has some good pieces once every so often, but they tend to be much more human interest related then statistical break downs.
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Spoeank posted:Football and Rational Thought for all your football needs. way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pCNJKGhQXM the timing makes it seem ironic
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MourningView posted:Editors making suggestions is not "ghost writing" When I say I say the ghost writing stuff I am also joking, Greg Howard (usually) sucks no matter who writes his stuff. But things like that Grantland article make me question his other stuff. If he can't even get it correct if people gave a 2 week notice how much of his other stuff is made up fantasy? I did call his "How Grantland Died" article an ESPN press release right after it came out because that is what it reads like. Gawker as a whole is unethical, which would be fine but they act like the ethics police for everyone else. Noctone posted:It's weird that he has the kind of giddy crush on Whitlock that an 11 year old girl might have on One Direction. Ty1990 posted:Sooooooooo seriously what other sites are out there for good sports writing? I'm legitimately lose without Grantland. I miss the Grantland podcasts. For some reason in my head when the site closed I just assumed the podcasts would keep going on ESPN. ESPN already has like 200 other podcasts and how much more work could it be to throw up the Grantland ones. Ribsauce fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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CharlestheHammer posted:Oh hi grandpa. If rage at "Thing X did Thing Y, you'll NEVER guess what happened next" makes me a grandpa, then give me a recliner and a bowl full of ribbon candy.
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