Matt Taibbi

http://racketteen.tumblr.com

― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 11, 2014 6:08 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

most interesting thing to me is that the remaining staff of the racket have set up a joke tumblr

that story on taibbi defection bylined by all the intercept people seemed pretty much like they were putting first look on notice to me

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/30/inside-story-matt-taibbis-departure-first-look-media/

sure it also said tho

“First Look executives, who by and large come from a highly structured Silicon Valley corporate environment, and the fiercely independent journalists who view corporate cultures and management-speak with disdain.” The Intercept, the story said, “was able to resolve most of these conflicts.”

its funny cause sillicon valley generally has less structured corporate environments that most corporations prob less than say big newspapers like the new york times but more than say ur average big time blog like gawker, prob its more a case of the style of the corporate environment than the amount, or more likely even had mostly to do w a billionaire w no industry experience trying to run this shit part time and remote using stuff that works when ur trying to make software

btw dear ebay guy u seem nice and misunderstood i will run ur media properties 4 u if u want ps i dont do meetings tho

No it's good you're pointed that out lagoon. Yet what Brio is saying seems otm abt putting first look on notice

ya i agree

greenwald and taibbi both seem like they wld be mighty unchill to work with too fwiw

like maybe he shdve hired editors to run the sites

lots of things "seem" to guys just chillin on the interwebs, i notice

wow morbs

its p perfect when u think abt how libertarian ebay billionaire thinks the purest future of journalism is two wildly self righteous guys who cant stop typing shd run his "digital magazines"

he should have just given them wordpress accounts and credit cards

lol morbs

wonder why first look wanted to be so hands on, shoulda just hired them a shitload of lawyers and let em loose

http://33.media.tumblr.com/f6496dd181498385bf1583a32cba0b0c/tumblr_ney0baNtPD1u3tccwo1_1280.png

oh so Greenwald gets the poodles

is that a cum shot splatter to his left

a fair amount of dog content in Citizenfour btw, Alfred

I have had legit crushes on at least two of those ppl.

I'm not sure I'm over Scahill actually.

met Scahill at the Book Fair last year. Rowr.

Watching him obsessively and irritably hit an ecig during a 1-1/2 hour discussion panel made me feel like, okay bro I get you now. You are this anxious just all the time. Go. Go do something. Stop fidgeting.

papaziti ‏@papaziti 15m15 minutes ago
@ggreenwald Hope he doesn't burn any bridges as Gawker may be going the way of the DoDo. #GamerGate

Retired Lothario. Dog whisperer. Patron of the arts. Leisure Consultant. Grandfather. http://youtube.com/user/papaziti

lmao

Catt Taibby

wonder why first look wanted to be so hands on, shoulda just hired them a shitload of lawyers and let em loose

― Brio2, Thursday, November 13, 2014 10:56 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p clearly a large element of disrupting journalism aspiration here with the typical result when an extremely successful person with deep knowledge of their industry thinks their shit will just carry over no prob ie guy prob thinks the key to new journalism is grafting startup management techniques onto teams of reporters

realize that quesh was not entirely srs but i have important observations to share

so much shit to disrupt, so little time

the whole thing would make a great mike judge movie

i've managed to avoid it for however many weeks it's been a "thing" (mostly b/c i skim past anything related to computer games), but can someone explain "gamergate" to me in 40 words or less?

its about ethics in game journalism

lol

some dudes fled the tyranny of women and sex and found a safe haven but women and sex are encroaching on their territory and they have decided to fight back

wait taibbi was involved?

that's where he's been this whole time.

some dudes fled the tyranny of women and sex and found a safe haven but women and sex are encroaching on their territory and they have decided to fight back

― Roberto Spiralli,

I didn't have a clue that ship felt this way!

real lotharios never retire.......

https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/0494a1118df90f0830a8e8c6c0e73820/tumblr_nexx40d3pI1u3tccwo1_500.gif

lolmg

lol

some dudes -- me plus another guy

so i would pay money for a subscription to a daily hot takes board

http://racketteen.tumblr.com/post/102968234254/hot-takes-board-11-18-14

Honestly, I'm pretty happy that they are getting paid to do Racket Teen. They deserve to make money from it.

welp http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/11/8557378/first-look-media-ends-racket-project-fires-staff

welp yeah that sucks

http://racketteen.tumblr.com/post/103560723094/but-you-know-that-our-hearts-will-go-blah

RIP I guess, I never knew you

rip our last best hope for independent teen opinion journalism

I skimmed it for a few mins it just looks like another hipster runoff blog to me all this shit is the same lol I am old