Leftist Journalist Admits Wokeness Is Just About Money And Clicks, Media Companies Purging Far Left

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🗓️ 25 August 2019

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Leftist Journalist Admits Wokeness Is Just About Money And Clicks, Media Companies Purging Far Left. Amid the ongoing civil war in media between investors and woke journalists something amazing was published. A Former employee of a political sports website, Deadspin, admitted that the story here is not about idealistic journalists sticking to their integrity but in fact a staff that knows far left, woke, and social justice politics get more clicks than sports stories do.One would probably like to know, why does a sports website write about Trump, the Democrats, and social justice issues anyway? Well now we have our answer.Great Hill Partners bought the Gizmodo Media Group, which used to be led by Gawker. They now want the sports outlet Deadspin to "stick to sports" but the staff is convinced that woke outrage politics generates more traffic, and they are probably right.But in the long term we are seeing these companies collapse. perhaps the wokeness is a short term gain heading for a long term loss. Clicks and traffic is not an audience, its ragebait. A Company needs paying subscribers to continue existing and it seems the staff don't realize it. All they know is that politics plays better than sports.But if media companies wanted political content they could just launch a political website. Why have 7 political websites when you can just have one? Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's been an ongoing story involving the Gismoto media network or Gismoto media, whatever
0:05.2	its name is. This is formerly part of Gawker, a very storied media agency that was destroyed after
0:12.1	a lawsuit by Hulk Hogan, financed by Peter Teal. Parts of it were sold to Univision, Univision
0:18.0	then mixed it around and sold it to a company called Great Hill Partners and something truly
0:22.7	profound has happened that has blown my mind completely and outright. One of the former employees
0:30.8	pushing back on the new owners openly admits they push woke politics specifically to make money.
0:38.8	I kid you not, saying it's not about editorial purity, it's about making money and growing the
0:44.7	business. To me, this is rather shocking because you'd think most of these companies would try and
0:50.4	claim they're sticking to their independent editorial standards. No! This woman, Megan Greenwell,
0:56.8	in no uncertain terms, pushes back, saying it is absolutely not about idealistic journalists,
1:04.6	unconcerned with profit, pushed opposed against ruthless business doers. No, they say the real
1:10.4	stories that journalists at Dead Spin and its sister sites like most journalists I know are eager
1:15.2	to do work that makes money and I kid you not, reading into the story really did blow my mind to
1:21.4	see someone at one of these companies admit. There are sports websites. Dead Spin is a sports website
1:29.5	writing about politics and media why and they openly admit it to make money, to make money. They
1:39.2	don't care about this stuff. They don't care about the ideas. They don't care about the politics.
1:44.9	They care about making money and this is as I've said, I got a bunch of stories I want to go through
1:49.2	and I show you this. This is, this is, wow, I gotta say wow. I've talked about this for a while
1:55.0	that companies would get on Facebook, figure out what worked and turn it into a formula to,
2:01.2	it's called rage bait to make people click. What ends up happening at a website like Dead Spin,
2:06.9	sports news without access, favor or discretion, major league baseball, NFL while your team sucks.
2:14.0	Why are they talking about sports? Oh, it's interesting. There are a bunch of websites that can
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