Matt Taibbi

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

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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

it was a parody of same done by ppl waiting to get fired, no?

oh, lol sorry I think I missed half the story here

yeah, Matt Taibbi didn't recruit those folx to do Racket Teen. I think they were supposed to make the NSA implode, more like.

it was perhaps the nicest, most meta bit of journo-narcissism i've seen in a long time.

it was fun how u cld tell they were just hanging around drinking waiting to be fired

tbh anytime i read about racket the vision seemed really muddy and unclear to me, like they weren't even sure what it was supposed to be, so i can't say i'm shocked that it didn't really work out

i'm happy that pareene has been liberated though, assuming someone snaps him up quickly. he's one of the best politics writers, it sucked not hearing from him for half a year or whatever.

except for when he filled in for andrew sullivan lol

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/life-and-death-of-the-racket/

“The whole site is a reaction to the clickbait, robotic, aggregating direction to journalism that’s the direction everything’s going on the Internet. We want readers to feel like everything they see on the site was the creation of an individual human being,” said Taibbi. A big part of that was going to be an emphasis on voice. The Racket was going to reject the dry, third-person style of the traditional media for strongly opinionated writing that, rather attempting to hide its biases, would flaunt them. It would be a way to connect with the audience and even drive its own reporting.

Man, this site would have been pretty fun, at least.

The Intercept is actually really good though. The dry third person style of traditional media is being avoided every day.

wanna read those outsourced tom friedman columns

yeah i'm kinda gutted now tbh. friedman gag so otm.

not sure where on the internet to turn for my strongly voiced opinon writing that, rather attempting to hide its biases, would flaunt them now

so you're saying... pareene was a mole and denton blew them up from the inside

its all connected

there were some very funny ideas in that piece and i def wldve liked to see what racket cld do cause they had some cool ppl on staff even if reading two consecutive matt taibbi sentences is painful for me, but having voice and being opinionated and hating clickbait are not really anything that sets you apart from a lot of people on the net

tho they did seem like they were prepared to ratchet up the obnoxiousness to rarified heights lol buying franklin foer twitter follower

tho im not sure if any of those funny ideas wldve been good for anything past the initial joke

its really too bad they didnt just give it to pareene and edith zimmerman after taibbi left that wldve been the best possible outcome

tbh i would give them all my lunch money to just troll friedman, brooks, and dowd every week

wld be cool to be all we are launching this exciting new journalism project that will have high quality content and also be sort of prankish but then its 100% pranks