PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Number7 on January 19, 2024, 12:42:37 PM
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After generations of success, Sports Illustrated is going out with a whimper.
Employees at Sports Illustrated were told that they are all being laid off today.
Sports Illustrated has axed all of its current employees, with some being terminated immediately, after the Authentic Brands Group terminated its agreement with The Arena Group to publish the magazine in print and digital. The Arena Group missed a $2.8m payment that breached the company’s Sports Illustrated licensing deal three weeks ago. It is unclear whether Authentic will establish a new operator or allow Arena to renegotiate its current deal. The decision comes five years after the licensing group bought Sports Illustrated for $110m from Meredith.
https://www.offthepress.com/sports-illustrateds-entire-staff-told-they-are-getting-laid-off/
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Good riddance. Like ESPN, once at the top, now in WOKE ruin.
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They used to have really good sports writers; or rather they had really good writes that wrote about sports.
I dropped my subscription almost 30 years ago after THE baseball strike. I picked one up a few years go and couldn't stomach more than one mag.
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Gee, you put a morbidly obese woman on the cover of the swimsuit issue one year and then a tranny on the cover the next year and it hurts your business? Shocker.
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Not quite ENTIRE staff, but a SIGNIFICANT NUMBER:
A significant number of Sports Illustrated staff members were notified by the outlet's publisher that they would be laid off. The move puts the future of the iconic sports publication that has been widely considered the gold standard of sports journalism for nearly seven decades in jeopardy.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/sports-illustrated-lays-off-significant-amount-of-staff-after-license-revoked-owner-vows-to-continue-brand
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When AI writes better than their humans, why not?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/sports-illustrated-found-publishing-ai-generated-stories-photos-and-authors
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Once upon a time I was a subscriber, but, year after year the quality of their editorial decisions got worse an worse. One saturday I thumbed thru the mag and there were more pages dedicated to bullshit than sports.
The seven page spread about an environmentally questionable fishing event was the clincher, and I notified them in writing to cancel my subscription.
Never looked back. Never thought about them again until the article yesterday.
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If you feel like listening to an entertaining rant about this:
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maybe it was a typo. They meant to fire the AI staff...
or maybe the AI editor intercepted the news and changed it to "all"
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maybe it was a typo. They meant to fire the AI staff...
or maybe the AI editor intercepted the news and changed it to "all"
I never expected that Skynet's takeover would start with the media, but it makes a lot of sense to do it that way.