Deadspin is dead

[Just Jack]

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The sports blog that refused to play ball died Friday at the age of 14. Former Editor-in-Chief Megan Greenwell confirmed its passing on Twitter. Cause of death: Everyone quit in protest.

“And with that, it’s over,” Greenwell wrote. “Deadspin no longer employs a single writer or editor. I am gutted but so very proud of this group of people.

“Deadspin was a good website.”

 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/deadspin-is-no-more-after-mass-staff-exodus-former-eic/

Edited November 2, 2019 by Just Jack

[RyanC883]

very interesting.  Site was mostly garbage, IMO.  More click-bait and self-righteousness reporters than anything else.  

[CaptnCoke11]

Good.  Garbage website

[Mike in Horseheads]

I thought it was a great site that wasn't same old crap. Shame that some big shot got involved.

[Rocky Landing]

I will miss its annual "Why Your Team Sucks."

[djp14150]

This had some real stories worth reading. Other stuff was crap.

 

it showhow fragile web sites really are.

[Big C]

1 hour ago, Rocky Landing said:

I will miss its annual "Why Your Team Sucks."

 

It was about time to call it on that series, I feel. But it was, for a time, one of the site's crowning achievements.

[bbb]

2 hours ago, Big C said:

 

It was about time to call it on that series, I feel. But it was, for a time, one of the site's crowning achievements.

 

Yeah, it was boring this year, but other years were great 

[VaMilBill]

They got very political and very anti-conservative. I had to stop reading it cause their articles turned from mostly sports to mostly liberal talking points

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

5 hours ago, djp14150 said:

This had some real stories worth reading. Other stuff was crap.

 

it showhow fragile web sites really are.

That sounds like the Buffalo News website.

[LeviF]

Started out good. Got bad in a hurry around 2015-2016, like a lot of things. Portnoy is gloating on Twitter about it. He offered a former deadspin editor $100k a year to be his butler ?

[stuvian]

politics ruins everything

[Nester]

Oh no, SJW bloggers got mad and now want to bag groceries instead of write articles no one read. 
 

 

[RaoulDuke79]

Good....when I first heard about Deadpsin I found it different and interesting. But over time, the more I read it the more I could definitely sense an overt one sided political slant. I can't remember exactly which article was the straw that broke the camel's back per se, but at that point over a year or so ago I made a conscious decision to no longer visit the site. 

Edited November 2, 2019 by RaoulDuke79

[HOUSE]

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Edited November 2, 2019 by HOUSE

[OrtonHearsaWho]

1 hour ago, LeviF91 said:

Started out good. Got bad in a hurry around 2015-2016, like a lot of things. Portnoy is gloating on Twitter about it. He offered a former deadspin editor $100k a year to be his butler ?

 

The upper management should be fired directly into the sun specifically for giving Portnoy something to gloat about.

[Doc]

What?

[SCBills]

4 hours ago, VaMilBill said:

They got very political and very anti-conservative. I had to stop reading it cause their articles turned from mostly sports to mostly liberal talking points

Agreed.  Im not even a conservative - I’m about as moderate/in the middle as it gets, but I am so sick of the constant bias of self righteous reporters at every turn lately. 

Deadspin turned into Buzzfeed sports. 
 

 

Edited November 2, 2019 by SCBills

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

I was mistakenly under the impression that being “gutted” would hurt more than finding out 14 of your hypstyr journalist co-workers did not show up for work to protest a greedy hedge fund.  It sure looked painful in Braveheart, but then again Mel Gibson is a pretty good actor and I don’t have any hedge fund people in my neighborhood. 

Edited November 2, 2019 by leh-nerd skin-erd

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

good riddance