18 Replies to “Deep Impact”

  1. Please hire any/all of the wildly talented staff who are leaving.
    He misspelled “mildly.”

  2. “I am a freelancer, which is pretty much a modern day cowboy.”
    What? In what universe does this guy live? Comparing himself to a cowboy, modern day or not, is pretty much of a stretch. He probably gets his meat at Safeway and doesn’t realize how it got there.

  3. Maybe he considers himself a cowboy because he produces the same stuff as a horse does when it’s finished with the hay it’s eaten.

  6. So, that’s ESPN, Mashable, Cracked, Buzzfeed, now Vice.
    Its almost as if people overestimated how much people would pay for bad writing, scolding, whining and listicles…
    Or, as I like to say as on old fart straight white man, we’re taking our hockey net and going home.
    Good luck “free” lancing. Emphasis on the free part. Its called supply and demand, and the supply of barely educated and untalented people calling themselves writers far outpaces the demand for clickbait.
    Maybe one of them can catch on as an unpaid intern at the Toronto Star or some other self-righteous media outlet.

  8. comments in the link are distinctly unkind:
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    Replying to @Justin_Ling
    But I thought @ezralevant and @TheRebelTV were the ones failing? #FakeNews?
    who are these Vice people? is this a variation on the self-serve-pay-what-you-will organic restaurant or whatever that wound up floating face down because it was a money LOSING operation the whole time?

  9. they live in a make believe world!!!
    I can be a better cowboy (urnolist) than that fool. Just get a herd of bulls, or liberals, and a manure spreader, as I already have the tractor.

  10. that cowboy reference was hilarious. I remember sitting in a bar in Saskatchewan 30 years ago trying to make that comparison when i was a newspaper reporter. To my credit, i remembered it next day and felt kind of dumb. Drunkenness was my excuse – don’t know what that guy uses.

  11. “I thought @ezralevant and @TheRebelTV were the ones failing?”
    They are.
    VICE used to be so cool. Go see their North Korea doc-and the one with North Korean slave labour in Russian forestry.
    Then they got infested by progs and it’s just hipster crap.

  14. So, the places that HAVEN’T been 24/7/365 Trump bashing, their layoffs are 400 times worse, right?

  15. Do the layoffs at Vice mean that the three “journalists” in the Australian prison fr smuggling cocaine will now be entitled to severance pay? What about those who complained about being sexually harassed, were they the first ones to get fired?

  17. Sorry, but I’ve worked in industry too long to take this at face value.
    Any time management gets tired of someone, there are budget cuts and layoffs. Then, miraculously, the financial picture brightens in the second half of the year and they can go hire new, cheaper, younger, more easily controlled people.
    It’s all a game to effect staff turnover, unless they’re really hurting. More consecutive rounds of layoffs mean they’re really hurting. Otherwise, it’s just business as usual.

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