Elizabeth Spiers - At The Observer - Episode #159

"YOUR WELCOME" with Michael Malice

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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American journalist, digital strategist at The Insurrection, and the founding editor of Gawker, Elizabeth Spiers joins Michael this week for a discussion on the politicization of America and whether or not it's a good thing, a plethora of factors that would contribute to someone becoming a voter for Trump, how the many phases of Gawker could be directly linked to the editor in chief at the time, Elizabeth's time running The Observer under Jared Kushner, how to deal with a clash of values as an editor, general misconceptions about the point of journalism and what people should understand about the field, plus what may have led Donald Trump to become such a prolific salesman, and so much more!Get the most comfortable underwear you'll ever put on at http://www.SheathUnderwear.com and use code MALICE20 for 20% OFF your order.Get your energy back, sleep better, and block out the unhealthy effects of blue light from your computer, phone, and TV with BLUblox blue light glasses. Get FREE shipping worldwide and 15% OFF by going to http://www.BLUblox.com/yourwelcome or enter code WELCOME at checkout.One Farm produces organic plant-based CBD products sourced directly from the farmers that grew them in Boulder, Colorado. Get 30% OFF everything from full spectrum CBD to softgels this month only by going to https://onefarm.com and using the promo code MALICE at checkout. Elizabeth Spiershttps://www.elizabethspiers.com/https://twitter.com/espiershttps://www.instagram.com/elizspiersMichael MaliceOrder THE ANARCHIST HANDBOOKhttps://www.amzn.com/B095DVF8FJOrder THE NEW RIGHT: https://amzn.to/2IFFCCuOrder DEAR READER: https://t.co/vZfTVkK6qf?amp=1https://twitter.com/michaelmalicehttps://instagram.com/michaelmalicehttps://malice.locals.com https://youtube.com/michaelmaliceofficialIntro song: "Out of Reach" by Legendary House Catshttps://thelegendaryhousecats.bandcamp.com/The newest episode of "YOUR WELCOME" releases on iTunes and YouTube every Thursday! Please subscribe and leave a review.You can watch "YOUR WELCOME" with Michael Malice LIVE for FREE every Tuesday at 12:30 PM at http://www.GaSDigitalNetwork.com/liveVisit http://www.podcastmerch.com/ for exclusive "YOUR WELCOME" with Michael Malice merchandise!For access to our entire catalog of episodes On Demand in HD, subscribe to www.GaSDigitalNetwork.com. Use promo code "YWMM" for a 7-day free trial and 15% OFF your monthly membership. There, you'll have access to ALL of the other amazing shows on GaS Digital Network!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	good afternoon Michael Malice here let that be your welcome for the next hour this is an
0:27.9	episode that is going to be very geeky and intense because we have with us a very special guest
0:33.7	Elizabeth Spires who's one of the few people I can say that I am an off who has been a very
0:39.2	good friend to me a bit of a role model in your career. Let me give people the background because
0:43.8	you're not a household name but you being 80 pounds punched so much above your weight in terms
0:48.3	of changing the culture that it's insane. I first knew about you in 2003 because you were the
0:54.6	founding editor of Gawker and we came up when the blog scene was becoming a thing I have very
1:00.2	fond memories of it now I'm sure you do as well. You basically are one woman media dynamo you
1:05.8	created was it was called deal breaker with which was the law blog then you were put on charge
1:11.4	of observer when Jared Kushner decided he wanted to be a newspaperman. I'm sure this your
1:17.5	list of credits is insane because what you did for a very long time is people wanted to launch
1:23.8	what was that fashion when you did? Fashionista.com. No another one. What was curated close?
1:31.9	I don't think that was me. No I did a company called Breaking Media that had deal breaker above the law
1:38.2	and fashion used to they were all Wall Street blog legal blog and then in fashion industry blog.
1:45.0	There was one and I'm positive you're involved in some capacity I'm not completely crazy. It was
1:50.6	basically like a way for indie designers to I was at the party and you were there that's why I'm
1:55.7	remembering this I could be wrong. For herself or something like that whatever it doesn't matter
2:00.3	maybe I should have done my homework a little bit better. The point being so much of what has come
2:05.0	of our culture is because of you and people like us you were the founding editor of Gawker.
2:10.8	You worked with Jared Kushner so in many ways both cancel culture and Trump can be laid at your
2:16.3	feet so anything that's wrong in this country that people hate whether political aisle they can
2:22.6	blame you so which of those do you think sometimes they blame me for stuff that I have nothing to do
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