Purchased without warning, and casually gutted like a river trout. The new owners merely wanted the name, nothing else. Everybody involved with the site? Discarded, without regret, sympathy, or apparently a way to appeal.
…Look, what could I say that would be more contemptuous and cutting than objective reality? Seriously, to top that I might have to do actual damage to my soul. I’m not gonna.
Twitchy has the gory details: suffice it to say, Deadspin tried to pitch a story (that Cory Gardner never played high school football) into a game changer for Colorado’s Senate race, and ended up probably guaranteeing Gardner’s election (because Gardner actually played high school football, and has the pictures to prove it). In the process Deadspin has managed to make at least several dozen Lefty journalists and activists look like chumps, and that promises to keep going on for a little while longer.
Lots of fun, but I should have kept better notes. Or any notes at all.
Moe Lane
