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Why Deadspin Had to Publish the ESPN Horndog Glossier
On October - 22 - 2009
Deadspin, like all of Gawker Media blogs, is at its best when it is serving more as a media watchdog than as a source of serious journalistic reporting.
Deadspin was founded as a blog without "access, favor, or discretion," and the source of its creation, as noted by Will Leitch in God Save The Fan , is that the media that reports on sports have gotten in bed with the sports teams they cover. It had the financial and media resources to do so better than anything else, and its purpose was ultimately to improve the experience for sports fans who ...