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    J.K. TrotterJ.K. Trotter
    6/02/14 12:19pm

    It’s weird to watch this unfold, at least from my perspective at Gawker Media. A few weeks the Detroit correspondent of Jalopnik wrote a sour and pointless post (“Once Again, Gawker Is Absolutely Fucking Clueless About Detroit”) about a headline one of our weekend writers used. This correspondent and I are, technically, colleagues; his New York counterparts sit away a few tables away from Gawker staffers in our office; we all collect wages from the same legal entity, Gawker Media. None of which changes the fact that his post was sour and pointless. But it’s not like any at Gawker brought up the possibility of anyone being fired. This kind of intramural criticism goes withe territory of working here.

    (There’s another thing to be said for how BuzzFeed—and HuffPost, and others—organizes its editorial properties versus Gawker Media. At the former, every property or department is a “vertical”—BuzzFeed Politics, BuzzFeed LGBT, etc—whereas at Gawker Media, each property exists as its own brand, with its own unique URL—Gawker, Deadspin, Jezebel, etc. Part of the reason it’s easier for us to rag on each other, and avoid situations like the above, is that we don’t necessarily feel allegiance to Gawker Media as a larger brand, only the site where we edit and publish. If that makes any sense.)

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      Aaron FoleyJ.K. Trotter
      6/02/14 12:22pm

      Sour and pointless? It was factually incorrect and needed to be called out.

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      pazuzuJ.K. Trotter
      6/02/14 12:23pm

      Sour maybe... pointless? Probably not. It was a brainless mistake the incorrect article made, one easily averted.

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    Rich JuzwiakJ.K. Trotter
    6/02/14 12:10pm

    Siddiqi's own brand of fast, voluble criticism drew BuzzFeed management's repeated scrutiny whenever she directed it as her own colleagues' work, both in internal emails and on Twitter.

    Sounds like a great team player.

    She also published—what?—fewer than 10 stories during her six or so months there. Wow, someone who tweets couldn't edit a proper site. I never could have dreamed of this outcome.

    My thoughts about this person's writing and smugness aside, none of this surprises me. At all.

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      fritzoJ.K. Trotter
      6/02/14 12:10pm

      Ooo! I want to make a new quiz!

      "Which Former Buzzfeed Editor Are You?"

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        srubifritzo
        6/02/14 1:27pm

        I'm Copyranter.

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      wellokJ.K. Trotter
      6/02/14 2:04pm

      here's a free one: look at her start date, then count how many pieces Ideas actually published in her tenure.

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        Carlos JimenezJ.K. Trotter
        6/02/14 2:25pm

        "The New Inquiry's staff has distinguished itself through their exploration of ideas removed from the pretensions of either academic journals or the biases of traditional media. " LOLOLOLOL bourgeois pseudo-revolutionary theoretical porn.

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          MarcabExpatJ.K. Trotter
          6/03/14 9:36am

          I don't get what her beef was with the Malaysian court story. As for his terminology, he appeared to be quoting people actually connected with the case. Anybody?

          Also:

          have yet to see a reporter cover sharia law with any grasp on what it actually is

          Well, that's not overgeneralizing or anything...

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