{"id":3775,"date":"2023-05-31T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/from-deadspinss-ashes-the-story-of-defector"},"modified":"2023-05-31T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T00:00:26","slug":"from-deadspinss-ashes-the-story-of-defector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/from-deadspinss-ashes-the-story-of-defector\/","title":{"rendered":"From Deadspins\u2019s Ashes: The Story Of Defector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think more publications like Deadspin would be a net positive. Back in the day only Gawker reliably called out startup bullshit. \u2018The last good website\u2019 Deadspin, the influential sports and culture blog that all but imploded a few years ago, made its name by savaging those it deemed \u201cassholes.\u201d Founded in 2005 under Gawker Media,\u00a0Deadspin\u00a0used \u201casshole\u201d as shorthand for anyone the staff disliked: Floyd Mayweather Jr., the boxer, who defended Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cgrab \u2019em by the pussy\u201d line; Dan Snyder, formerly the owner of the Washington Commanders\u2014who, according to a whistleblower with the National Park Service, paid to have more than a hundred trees chopped down to improve the view from his mansion; Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL, also known to readers as a \u201chypocritical shitstain.\u201d That is to name just a few. Colorful barbs were a way of punctuating\u00a0Deadspin\u2019s journalism, the staff maintained. \u201cA lot of people confuse that with being mean,\u201d Megan Greenwell, a former\u00a0Deadspin\u00a0editor, told me. \u201cBut I actually don\u2019t think that having fun making fun of people and also doing accountability reporting are mean at their heart.\u201dDanny Funt May 30, 2023, cjr.org The post From Deadspins&#8217;s Ashes: The Story Of Defector appeared first on Mason Pelt.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masonpelt.com\/from-deadspinss-ashes-the-story-of-defector\/\">From Deadspins\u2019s Ashes: The Story Of Defector<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think more publications like Deadspin would be a net positive. Back in the day only Gawker reliably called out startup bullshit. \u2018The last good website\u2019 Deadspin, the influential sports&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2942,300,2943,2944,151,485,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}