The Old Country's Biggest Blunders

From Teti’s Block & Tackle comments:



I do think, for all the complaining we do in this thread, that the writers are fundamentally on the same side as us.

And I’ll dissent on Supper Club—while the fast food articles might be obnoxious—I didn’t click on them, I don’t know—the “Amuse our Bouche” and the one newswire Pang I read by Pang felt more AVC-ish than a lot of recent, “on-topic” content—knowledgeable but accessible and good-humored. I think, in addition to going full blast on Wednesday, launching on a week where there wasn’t really any new feature content on Monday or Tuesday due to the holiday weekend didn’t help wrt perception, either.

Newsletter and Supper Club pop-ups are. Still. Fucking. Happening.

Shit, this sucks. He really did seem to bring a genuine love for the commenting community to the job and seemed to make decisions with us in mind. Not looking forward to his Univision-appointed replacement.

He's still involved with the site/The Onion in general, just leaving behind the EIC mantle

No idea on EIC, they did mention Archer winning as one of the highlights of the Creative Arts emmy post I believe.

That fits the exact same definition of burying the lede.

What you have is a new definitive example, in your opinion.

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OF USERNAME/COMMENT SYNERGY

Today's Seattle Teriyaki article is a good example of what I hope Supper Club will be doing.

Obviously, comment numbers don't necessarily correlate to pageviews (you can see this all the time when the "most-read" function, which is probably at least somewhat accurate) will have some little commented upon GJI or Newswire in the top spot, because it's doing great on Facebook.

But I would not be surprised by Food doing better than Music or Movies or even TV. One of the reasons culture sites and publications tend to struggle (and they all have!) is because culture sites and publications are read by a very small, select group of people, who tend to bristle when the topic of discussion is broadened in the slightest to hopefully include those who don't read these sorts of sites as diehards.

Food, at the very least, is something everybody has to partake in to live, so it makes sense that it would do better than a throwback column.

It has always struck me as a very deliberate attempt to redo Murray's "Popless," which for me was a defining AVC feature before I worked there. (After I worked there, of course, all of the defining AVC features were created/written/curated by me.)

Aside: I would be incredibly comfortable with banning Disqus drive-bys on Mr Robot comments at this point. More than any other place on TOC right now.

I tried a LaCroix yesterday because the AVC was always talking about them, and I liked it, so I'm not complaining.

The Bacon Critic comments have a truly appalling lack of David Cameron jokes, an error I am correcting.

Winston Churchill once said that cats look down on man, dogs look up to him, but only pigs see man as their equal, a sentiment to whose accuracy David Cameron can whole-heartedly attest.