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Nick Denton: “It’s seriously the best guide to web journalism there is.”

Deadspin: “I’m a dick and it’s an incredibly funny story, but one that didn’t really hold any real weight..”

And I don’t even care about the NBA. #freefuckingagency

Here is Deadspin, liberally and sincerely using the term “fagbait.”

Discuss.

“If you submit to this icing business, you are a fucking sheep. You lack the ability to think and judge for yourself, which probably means you also like the Dallas Cowboys.“

The first thing to change? That shitty attitude. Changing diapers is no hardship. Someday that child will be revolted to spend 10 minutes within two fucking feet of you. Appreciate the current intimacy.

OK, that’s better.. Read the rest at Deadspin

Via Deadspin, here is professional hockey player Brian Boyle.

Yes, I said professional athelete. A hockey player no less, not like, a tennis star or ping-pong champ. Hockey players are basically a combination of soccer and basketball players except only those players’ most violent lack of self regard characteristics. Meanwhile, wasn’t the whole point of being a hipster doofus that you were a misunderstood artist who couldn’t wait to escape your small school that only rewarded sports to make it to the big city where you could express yourself (by dressing like a combination of Eastern European tourists and 8-year-olds)?

Is he wearing TWO leather jackets?

Come on people, I count on my stereotypes to get me through the days. Stop messing around like this.

Hey USA Today, are you aware you are offending the delicate sensibilities of your “readers?” Also, “Related Topics:” Martha Fucking Stewart?!

Related: Read this fucking thing I wrote for Deadspin.

Look at this. Gawker appears to be slowly spinning its Deadspin title into more of a comprehensive male-oriented site Deadspin XY. It makes sense for Denton to capitalize on the audience, especially since the blog faces so much competition in the very segment it practically created.

It’s like Esquire’s more athletic brother. Wonder when we’ll see the first post on fashion.

“I think the short answer is that writers go back because Gawker Media sites and sites modeled after them spent the bulk of this past decade systematically obviating and destroying most all of writers’ other options for regular employment. We’ll all work at Gawker one day!”

Emily Gould on why writers return to Gawker (”Doree Returns (To Gawker)“)

I would also hazard that the “style” needed to be a good Gawker writer just does not translate well to any other medium. Magazines do not want shallowly-researched snark. Ditto, newspapers. Meanwhile, writers for other Gawker sites like Gizmodo and Deadspin have specialized knowledge bases that translate throughout targeted industries. That is to say, A Gizmodo writer could probably easily move to PC Magazine or wherever. What is a Gawker writer’s specialized knowledge base? Media? Only for a tiny few.

Not to say that Gawker writers cannot give magazines and other media the content they want, they just don’t excel at it any more than the glut of writers out there. And once they experience that, Gawker looks like a warmplace to return to flex what they are best at.

By now everyone has seen the clip of the Tiger Woods animated “reenactment.” No? It’s here.

The really funny thing about the Apple Daily clip (it’s a media outlet known for its animated segments, especially a recent ultra-violent one that got the organization fined) is that Apple Media is Taiwanese despite the video being posted as “from China.” Everyone from TMZ to Deadspin noted it being from “China.” While Chinese and Taiwanese may all look the same, they tend to, you know, not always see eye to eye.

This is especially absurd on today’s Gawker TV segment where the Apple Daily clip from “our friends in China”  comes just below a clip accusing Wanda Sykes and Geroge Lopez of “recycling the same tired, old racist jokes.”