Below are the posts that comprise our ongoing discussion on how (or if) college athletes should be compensated for their play. Jul 21, 2011 @ 5:24pm Pay College Athletes? Michael Wilbon thinks we should: If the student as athlete can find a way, he/she should be able to endorse products, to have paid-speaking gigs, … Continue reading Pay College Athletes?
Below are our posts covering the Kickstarter-funded Veronica Mars movie. Mar 14, 2013 @ 7:58am A reader writes: Because of your interest in fan-based funding and the independence of the new Dish, I thought you might find the Veronica Mars movie kickstarter project interesting. [Yesterday] morning it had about 30,000 dollars, right now it has … Continue reading Crowdsourcing On Steroids
Below are our mosts marking the ten year anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Mar 3, 2013 @ 9:27pm Past And Present: March 3, 2003 This month, the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, I’ve decided to re-publish some of my posts from March 2003. Call it masochism or basic journalistic … Continue reading The Iraq Invasion: Ten Years Later
Friday on the Dish, Andrew endorsed both Obama’s and Ilya Shapiro’s approaches to marriage equality, wondered why the Voting Rights Act wasn’t left to the legislature, and echoed Kenneth McIntyre’s description of Oakeshott. He agreed with a reader on gluten-free diets as he watched BuzzFeed’s sponsored content spread. In politics, the sequester struck and the public wearied of war, but Boehner exhibited rare bipartisanship in the House. Beinart mulled over the reasons for Obama’s Israel trip, Jeffrey Goldberg … Continue reading The Weekly Wrap
As the Atlantic continues to whore itself out to corporate spokespeople-as-journalists, and as Buzzfeed develops an advertizing model designed entirely to trick readers into clicking on ads thinking they’re editorial copy, one dude has done the same thing for almost two decades, and has just a simple, clear advertisement on his site, obviously distinguished from … Continue reading The Man With The Internet Money
Today on the Dish, Andrew mulled over legalized prostitution, hoped for a new era to emerge from the coming Papal Conclave, and updated readers on the status of the New Dish. He glimpsed the new generation of Journalism in Steve Brill’s health care essay and shook his head at the Republican management of the sequester. In political coverage, we looked ahead to the fallout from the … Continue reading The Daily Wrap
This weekend on the Dish, Andrew continued to think through Buzzfeed’s “sponsored content” model for online ads, pointed to an incisive comment on the issue from Kevin Drum, briefly riffed on the Atlantic’s new guidelines for native ads, offered a theological critique of Zero Dark Thirty, and noted what’s different this time about who will be … Continue reading The Weekend Wrap
(New York, New York, 5.19 pm) Friday on the Dish, Andrew read trouble for the GOP in the sequester tea leaves, probed the cracks in the wall of lies surrounding torture, and respected Will Saletan’s ability to admit when he was wrong. He recapped his passionate debate with Ben Smith of BuzzFeed, clarified the distinction between journalism and ad copy, and rounded up tweets from the … Continue reading The Weekly Wrap
“In this case, we did not adequately work with the advertiser to create a content program that was in line with our brand … To be clear, our decision to pull the campaign should not be interpreted as passing judgment on the advertiser [the Church of Scientology] as an organization. Where I believe we erred … Continue reading Quotes For The Day
Partial video of @sullydish & @buzzfeedben fitenite w/ @dkthomp in middle youtu.be/Yq_uW0jS-NE #smw13 #smwSullyFeed — Jesse Ferrell (@Accu_Jesse) February 22, 2013 Today on the Dish, Andrew questioned whether a focus on continued growth can truly make us happy, reminded the Breitbart crew that reality always wins, wondered if Republicans will be able to move past neoconservatism, and cheered Zack Kopplin for standing up to … Continue reading The Daily Wrap
