There was a notable Internet tempest this week with the implosion of the blogsite "Deadspin," which some number of people evidently had heard of. Basically, the slackoisie kids who were the "staff" of Deadspin, and apparently always thought of it as their personal, "creative" playhouse, resigned in mass rather than follow the editorial direction from the company that had purchased their operation and signed their paychecks. The notion that they were being paid to perhaps actually follow the directions of their employer was seemingly never a part of their world.
(Imagine, if you will, the travail that would follow if someone bought Glawker, and ordered the staff to "focus on law.")
Of course, at the moment, there are hundreds of unemployed former blogsite "writers" wandering the hinterlands. Some of them will at least be able to fake "sports," even if they have to research and write their posts via the Shannon Technique. The Deadspin management team need only take some sandwiches and coffee down to the bus station, and they will be back in business by Monday. Meanwhile, the child-like "writers" at various proprietary blogsites can take this as their wakeup call that capitalism still rules in business, and media organizations, generally, still eat their own young. Perhaps this lesson will serve the former Deadspin "writers" well at their next job, if there is one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/business/media/deadspin-was-a-good-website.html
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