Forum Overview :: We Love Katamari :: Awful take. Deadspin had maybe the only good writer for covering Trump

[quote name="saltlord"]If you don't know enough about what happened to separate Deadspin's effective shutdown from acquisition by a competent system of industrial subversion of the sort that is unseating the papers of record and other traditional MLM edifices, that's understandable I guess, it's not a story people seem to follow with any depth. Deadspin was a well-designed and eminently readable site, though, and Google's grasp of advertising doesn't result in Evony-tier ads going up all over the place. Ultimately some people were fine with a sports site that had a mix of idiot stories and interesting stories in a certain ratio, as opposed to route garbage and nothing deeper than ESPN coverage. That site's mixed-bag existence secured the ability of the good authors to keep writing. Its transformation into a shitshow is a net loss, and the hooting and bitching from the rest of the press has failed to bring this point across because they choose to instead ineptly take potshots at Thiel, a man whose character is so vile it is a wonder how they could possibly fuck up publishing hit pieces on him given that's what the industry is supposed to be good for.[/quote]