Any of you guys following this Deadspin walkout thing?

[AaronY]

Big mass quitting/firing there for being told to avoid politics

https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2019/10/deadspin-staffers-quit-one-by-one-after-being-told-to-stick-to-sports.html


Kind of liked deadspin but the blowing of all those supposedly heroic dudes for quitting on Twitter is hilariously nauseating.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Fuck snowflakes and censorship, tbh.

[Spurtacular]

That sucks that they were told to do their fucking jobs. Good that they're taking a stand, amirite?

[Millennial_Messiah]

That sucks that they were told to do their fucking jobs. Good that they're taking a stand, amirite?
It's censorship and let's not be hypocritical here. It's wrong on either side.

[Reck]

Deadspin fucked itself.

They did some analytics or whatever and it showed that their political articles got more clicks but oh well gotta stay woke.

[SnakeBoy]

It's censorship and let's not be hypocritical here. It's wrong on either side.

How is it censorship?

[Millennial_Messiah]

How is it censorship?
Not allowing journalists the freedom of expression.

[gambit1990]

really never followed deadspin but they had good stuff.

it's shitty of them being told to be sports only... they weren't sports only before...

[monosylab1k]

They had some funny shit, like the Why Your Team Sucks series, but it was mostly a bunch of unethical liberal blowhards. They’re on the same shit-tier level as Barstool but have convinced themselves that they’re some elevated form of sports journalism.

:lmao that NY Times story where Deadspin’s editor brags about having Puerto Rican neighbors.

[Spurtacular]

It's censorship and let's not be hypocritical here. It's wrong on either side.

It's not censorship. Writers are hired to write within a proper scope. If they're interested in being political writers and ditching sports, then that's what they should do.

It's funny watching these indoctrinated snowflakes bitch and moan because they don't understand boundaries.

[Spurtacular]

Not allowing journalists the freedom of expression.

They don't have "freedom of expression" as you put it. They're there to do a fucking job, which is to report on sports.

[Reck]

It's not censorship. Writers are hired to write within a proper scope. If they're interested in being political writers and ditching sports, then that's what they should do.

It's funny watching these indoctrinated snowflakes bitch and moan because they don't understand boundaries.

They were allowed to before. What's changed from the time they did to now?

:lol You taking the defense approach for every losing battle.

[AaronY]

lol

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[Spurtacular]

They were allowed to before. What's changed from the time they did to now?

:lol You taking the defense approach for every losing battle.

What changed is they were losing readership because purveyors of sports actually want sports information and not whiny snowflakes crying about politics.

This isn't a hard one to figure out, Wreck.

:lmao Snowflakes self-cleaned house for them. They don't even have worry about the severances this way.

[monosylab1k]

They don't have "freedom of expression" as you put it. They're there to do a fucking job, which is to report on sports.

I’m sure you’d say the same thing if Clay Travis was told to stick to sports.

[DJR210]

I don't give a shit about Deadspin, but it's retarded.. what's wrong with growth and covering more topics? Bigger audience, bigger bottom line right? They could have segregated the site by topic instead. Surely there are a ton of writers that have no issue writing about sports exclusively so they'll be back

[ChumpDumper]

The owners can order whatever they want. It's fine that the writers and editors quit instead of following those orders. If Deadspin's previous mix of issue coverage was successful some other source will fill that demand.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

yeah i don't get the big deal here

[Spurtacular]

I’m sure you’d say the same thing if Clay Travis was told to stick to sports.

I don't know who Clay Travis is. Nice fail, slob.

[monosylab1k]

I don't know who Clay Travis is. Nice fail, slob.

So it should be easy for you to say. You’re even less biased.

So what’s it gonna be?

[Spurtacular]

So it should be easy for you to say. You’re even less biased.

So what’s it gonna be?

I said what I said already. Do you remember me saying there were exceptions?

[leemajors]

I am gonna miss Deadspin, if for nothing else their endless articles shitting on Bill Simmons.

[monosylab1k]

I said what I said already. Do you remember me saying there were exceptions?

So you’d side with the employer who tells a known MAGAtard like Clay Travis to stick to sports :tu i respect your consistency.

[monosylab1k]

I am gonna miss Deadspin, if for nothing else their endless articles shitting on Bill Simmons.

Their jealous snark towards any other media entities got really old. Their obsession with Simmons was a perfect embodiment of the Mad Men “I feel sorry for you/I don’t think about you at all” meme.

I kinda love that a bunch of dumbasses like Barstool managed to troll them into oblivion.

[Spurtacular]

So you’d side with the employer who tells a known MAGAtard like Clay Travis to stick to sports :tu i respect your consistency.

I don't know who Clay Travis is; why would I speak directly to his situation?

[monosylab1k]

I said what I said already. Do you remember me saying there were exceptions?

[Spurtacular]

Slob triggered. Don't be too mad that businesses see the incessant whining as a liability.

[Spurtacular]

:lmao


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfaSx9NZO0

[Spurtacular]

I honestly didn't know Deadspin was a sports website. They did a terrible job of sticking to their mission.

[Spurtacular]

I honestly didn't know Deadspin was a sports website. They did a terrible job of sticking to their mission.

At least four different links on DJT getting 'booed' at UFC.

The new parent company clearly gets that fans of sports don't want to have to swim through a river of SJW tears while trying to find out about sports, which hasn't been delivered in the second place.

https://deadspin.com/down-a-hole-the-missing-scenes-of-donald-j-trumps-fab-1838707638
https://deadspin.com/donald-trump-gets-boos-lock-him-up-chants-at-world-s-1839403261
https://deadspin.com/its-absolutely-fine-that-donald-trump-got-booed-at-the-1839425624
https://deadspin.com/sports-fans-booing-and-jeering-trump-round-two-1839576019

[Spurtacular]

Listen to this snowflake bawl about Trump and being told to do his job. Even the Chumpettes don't care about this drivel outside of a pursuit for a tiny w.

https://deadspin.com/nationals-fans-didn-t-stick-to-sports-1839424010

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Not allowing journalists the freedom of expression.

That's called editing ie what an editor at all publications does.

[Reck]

I honestly didn't know Deadspin was a sports website. They did a terrible job of sticking to their mission.

My second post on the first page addressed this, dummy. But since you like to take the contrarian stance you probably didn't even catch on. Derp is gonna derp after all.

[Spurtacular]

My second post on the first page addressed this, dummy. But since you like to take the contrarian stance you probably didn't even catch on. Derp is gonna derp after all.

Your second post you were just crying like you are now, Wreck. You on your period?

[monosylab1k]

:lmao 5 consecutive unsolicited posts.

[Spurtacular]

:lmao 5 consecutive unsolicited posts.

:lmao That you think I wait for a cuck, slob, psychopath, tranny, etc. to "solicit":lmao

[leemajors]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/business/media/deadspin-paul-maidment.html

[gambit1990]

respect to those who quit. them quitting actually mattered :tu

[Capt Bringdown]

The Ham-Handed, Money-Driven Mangling of Sports Illustrated and Deadspin --- >>> (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-ham-handed-money-driven-mangling-of-sports-illustrated-and-deadspin)

[Spurtacular]

respect to those who quit. them quitting actually mattered :tu

No, it doesn't. They're not heroes by any means.

[gambit1990]

No, it doesn't. They're not heroes by any means.
if they don't quit then the person in the wrong doesn't resign. they're not heroes but have backbones.

[Spurtacular]

if they don't quit then the person in the wrong doesn't resign. they're not heroes but have backbones.

Nope. They're just emotional snowflakes throwing tantrums.

[leemajors]

Nope. They're just emotional snowflakes throwing tantrums.

Nah, this is venture capitalist firms ruining a once decent network of websites that stupidly tried to peddle hulk hogan's sex tape.

[Trey Gowdy]

https://www.mediaite.com/online/deadspin-editor-wants-everyone-to-know-she-lives-in-a-diverse-neighborhood-in-cringeworthy-site-profile/


Greenwell pushes back at that critique, even as she occasionally embodies it. When explaining that she lives in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, she added, “but the part where a lot of Puerto Rican families live.”

:lmao