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Deadspin sold; Entire staff canned
Posted on 3/11/24 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 3/11/24 at 3:00 pm
I can't recall that much about the site, but I just have a general recollection of it being crap.
They were the site that held up a young Chiefs fan as an example of blackface racism for wearing garb to a game.
I rarely have sympathy for journos facing the real world. Even less so here.
NY Post
They were the site that held up a young Chiefs fan as an example of blackface racism for wearing garb to a game.
I rarely have sympathy for journos facing the real world. Even less so here.
NY Post
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Sports blogging site Deadspin was sold to a European publisher and the entire staff was reportedly fired with barely any notice Monday — just months after the publication was forced to apologize for accusing a young Kansas City Chiefs fan of wearing “blackface.”
Jim Spanfeller, the CEO of parent G/O Media, broke the news of the sale and the layoffs in a memo to staff as the media company sold off another site in its crumbling empire.
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Posted on 3/11/24 at 3:02 pm to Ag Zwin
They coming to the SEC?
Posted on 3/11/24 at 3:02 pm to Ag Zwin
Not even 24 hours ago the same brutha wrote a race baiting article about the women’s sec tournament championship 
Posted on 3/11/24 at 3:04 pm to Ag Zwin
Posted on 3/11/24 at 3:08 pm to Ag Zwin
They still existed?
Posted on 3/11/24 at 3:09 pm to Ag Zwin
Only thing they’ve ever done was break that Brian Kelly’s best player had an imaginary girlfriend.
Posted on 3/11/24 at 3:10 pm to Ag Zwin
These clowns never get it. People watch sports to get away from all the noise and they double down on it. Now they be gone. Poof!
Posted on 3/11/24 at 3:11 pm to Ag Zwin
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They were the site that held up a young Chiefs fan as an example of blackface racism for wearing garb to a game.
Rightfully so. All chiefs/braves fans are racist.
Posted on 3/11/24 at 3:12 pm to Ag Zwin
They were cool like 12 years ago. But this is, I believe, the second time this has happened to them. No one really cares.
Posted on 3/11/24 at 3:15 pm to Ag Zwin
Deadspin was funny back before they took themselves seriously. Drew Magary decided to insert politics into absolutely everything sometime in the last 12 years.
The "Why Your Team Sucks" NFL preview used to be good for a few laughs.
I remember them calling the Seahawks "the Dirty Birds, but for Caucasians."
The "Why Your Team Sucks" NFL preview used to be good for a few laughs.
I remember them calling the Seahawks "the Dirty Birds, but for Caucasians."
Posted on 3/11/24 at 3:55 pm to Ag Zwin
I never want anyone to lose their job... unless they're a Dem politician or a "journalist."
Posted on 3/11/24 at 4:19 pm to Ag Zwin
Deadspin was always more than sports but it was also always pure snark.
Posted on 3/13/24 at 8:04 am to Ag Zwin
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G/O Media sells Deadspin, lays off entire staff with barely any notice amid ‘blackface’ scandal
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Among those was senior writer Carron Phillips, who penned an incendiary column last November that accused 9-year-old Chiefs fan Holden Armenta of racism against Native Americans and black people for wearing “blackface” and headdress to a football game.
Phillips failed to mention that Holden is of Native American descent, and he was wearing war paint, with one color covering each side of his face.
Holden’s grandfather, Raul Armenta, sits on the board of the Chumash Tribe in Santa Ynez, CA, according to the Post Millennial.
“Journalism — and the country as a whole — is better today now that Carron Phillips no longer has a platform to target innocent kids with his agenda-driven writing,” Libby Locke, the lawyer representing the family, told The New York Post.
“We are also grateful to G/O Media for infusing the company with cash that can be used to pay the judgment the Armenta family is going to win against it.”
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