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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I don’t read it but it sounds like management wanted to keep a sports blog limited to sports?
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When Peter Thiel won his libel suit, Deadspin and other Gawker sites were sold to a private equity company, which brought in new management. The people they choose seem to have expertise in clickbait and other trickery to inflate page hit numbers for advertisers, but not in any skills that would help them run a place like Deadspin. They have been running off the people there, intentionally and unintentionally, and things have come to a head this week. Deadspin was never a sports blog limited to sports, so telling the writers to "stick to sports" seemed more about the comfort-level of the new management than a sound business idea.
eta: stp -- RT tells it much better
eata: the politics stuff often was more profitable than the sports
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 11-01-2019 at 11:50 AM..
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