This somewhat related to a previous thread about Gawker being sued successfully by a Peter Thiel funded Hulk Hogan: http://www.internationalskeptics.com...d.php?t=304944
Since then Gawker was closed and the other Gawker sites have been passed from one owner to another. Recently they were bought by a private equity firm and the new boss did not like the old editorial direction.
Deadspin was a weird site under the Gawker umbrella. It was nominally a sports site, but if you really wanted sports news you could get that better elsewhere. It was more like a sports bar than a sports news source. The community was more important than the sports. This is in contrast with Jalopnik which is one of the better car news sites. Well, the new owner wanted it to stick to sports. So, now it seems that most of the staff is gone and they have taken down the ability to comment.
All of this played out in the comments on various Gawker sites and in the twitter feed of their union GMG Union.
Is anyone else going to miss Deadspin?
Since then Gawker was closed and the other Gawker sites have been passed from one owner to another. Recently they were bought by a private equity firm and the new boss did not like the old editorial direction.
Deadspin was a weird site under the Gawker umbrella. It was nominally a sports site, but if you really wanted sports news you could get that better elsewhere. It was more like a sports bar than a sports news source. The community was more important than the sports. This is in contrast with Jalopnik which is one of the better car news sites. Well, the new owner wanted it to stick to sports. So, now it seems that most of the staff is gone and they have taken down the ability to comment.
All of this played out in the comments on various Gawker sites and in the twitter feed of their union GMG Union.
Is anyone else going to miss Deadspin?
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