Deadspin Writers Are Resigning En Masse Following Firing Of Top Editor And 'Stick To Sports' Decree

[LiberalLovinLug]

https://digg.com/2019/deadspin-stick-to-sports-g-o-media

Update: On Wednesday afternoon, the day after G/O Media management fired longtime writer and editor Barry Petchesky, multiple members of the Deadspin team quit the company in protest of management's policies. Tom Ley, Laura Wagner, Lauren Theisen, Kelsey McKinney, Chris Thompson and Patrick Redford all announced their resignations on Twitter:



New owners. Probably Trump humpers.
This is a publication with a good staff of political writers... Or was.

Maybe this recent piece got under the new owners skin:

It's Absolutely Fine That Donald Trump Got Booed At The World Series

https://deadspin.com/its-absolutely-fine-that-donald-trump-got-booed-at-the-1839425624

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. I hope they stick together and continue their Deadspin style of sports/reality. nt

[Cartaphelius]

2. They just had to go there

didn't they. To chastise employees for doing their jobs as JOURNALISTS.
If management had done this earlier the WAVE might never have been
a thing. Whereas management being assholes has always been a thing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. David Roth is a great writer, and they'd be mad to restrict him

"Of late, these have been either partisans deranged enough to wait for hours outside a mid-sized arena to hear Trump tell a 17-minute story about how he definitely had a good and many would say even great chance with Cheryl Tiegs in 1982, or members of Trump friendly organizations with names like the National Wardens Association or the American Mail Fraud Council."

I've said it before: he's the new Charles Pierce, who also came from a sports background. At its best, American sports writing is marvellous (the British equivalent is either cliche-ridden, or addicted to pretentious metaphors). And that should be allowed to invigorate political writing.