mainstreaming of VICE // VICE mainstream

luka

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Mate, It's not arguable
I'm tanked up now but inspect the evidence. Vice can't breathe in UK oxygen
 

CrowleyHead

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like i saidon here b4 americans dont get drunk they just say WOOP alot. we drink to numb the pain, overcome crippling inhibitions, relieve the interminable tedium...

Americans become alcoholics because they're inept. The American instinct is that there's too much opportunity and they can't force themselves to do something specific with so much possibility.

Granted, that's a 'certain' American.

Vice was the same, no? Fingers in dozens of pies. They also stole a lot of their troll persona from Buddyhead's actually authentic dickheads status.
 

Leo

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Vice CEO Smith Spent $300,000 on Vegas Feast After Blackjack

(Bloomberg) -- It makes sense that Vice had something to do with it.

Vice Media Inc. Chief Executive Officer Shane Smith paid for a $300,000 Las Vegas dinner last month, according to a person who asked not to be identified because the meal was private. Mr. Smith, a Vice co-founder, had been on a lucky gambling run, the person said.

Brooklyn-based Vice has grown from a free, whiskey-stained Montreal monthly into a media titan. Technology Crossover Ventures and A+E Networks each invested $250 million for 10% stakes in the company last year.

After Gawker published complaints about Vice's low wages and freelance pay last year, the company released a statement describing the insurance, vacation days and stock program for its employees. Mr. Smith, 45, gave $1 million to staff at last year's holiday party, Gawker reported.

The cost of the meal at the Bellagio casino's Prime Steakhouse was reported by Bloomberg News earlier Wednesday, after MGM Resorts International revealed on an earnings call Tuesday that unidentified guests had enjoyed a $300,000 meal. The dinner was held during the Consumer Electronics Show, according to MGM Chief Financial Officer Dan D'Arrigo.

It was a party of 12, an MGM spokesman said in an e-mail. A guest at the dinner, who asked not to be identified, put the number closer to 25.

"No brainer quiz. What media co exec did I watch win $100k at blackjack last nite?" David Carr, The New York Times media columnist wrote last month on Twitter, weeks before his death at 58. "Hint: gambling not his only vice."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-spent-300-000-on-vegas-feast-after-blackjack
 

rubberdingyrapids

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all i wanted to say in any case is that vice uk lacks an identity becasue the culture that vice was a product of doesnt exist here and that what that means is that the people who write for vice inthe uk are indistinguishable from the people who write for the guide which comes with the guardian on saturday. thats all.

they share some of the same writers dont they? or they did at least. andy capper used to write for the guide. dont really agree that the lack of a real uk identity matters though, vice seems to do just fine. and kids dont/didnt seem to care.
 

trza

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Okay, looks like Gawker stepped in it and people are saying they did the same thing during Gamergate but I didn't pay attention to gamer gate.
 

Leo

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Okay, looks like Gawker stepped in it and people are saying they did the same thing during Gamergate but I didn't pay attention to gamer gate.

the backlash is because the guy isn't a public figure, so what if he wanted to hire a male escort? gawker never had high moral standards, but it's pretty shitty to ruin a guy's life just for lolz.

edit: or are you talking about all their reddit coverage?
 

trza

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he Onion is coming at you with a disruptive docu-vertical of its own, and it’s called Edge.

The series, which premiers online Aug. 3, has a simple mission statement: “With a team of more than 300 news warriors, Edge pummels readers with immersive reporting that is uncaged, unaccountable, and totally fucked up.” In other words, it’s like Vice, but, you know, Edge-ier. And thank the Lord Edge is here to double-down on our regular kidney punches of current events. We weren’t quite urinating blood yet, so this should do the trick.

The teaser for the series gives us a glimpse of those “300 news warriors” fanned out all across the globe to find out what drugs oppressed people are doing.

Nic Moss @NicMossEDGE

Let's get fucked on truth.
10:00 AM - 28 Jul 2015
Chase Vaughn
‏@ChaseVaughnEDGE

Nobody points a camera at dark-skinned people like @EDGEtv. Nobody.
 

trza

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So some video where a rap group named Migos may have been scripted and faked with a bunch of guns used as props. Or maybe they are just saying that after the fact when one of them is in jail.
 

trza

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Sad to hear about those news warriors arrested on terror charges in Turkey. But at least they will have an awesome party when they get back home.
 

trza

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cable tv channel is finally here
They think you're doing voodoo magic?

SMITH No, the business press thinks we're doing voodoo magic. (Laughs.) They're all, "Shane is f—ing P.T. Barnum." Fox, Time Warner, Disney, they're not stupid. They're smart people. You think that I could hoodwink Bob Iger, Jeff Bewkes and Rupert Murdoch? I'll tell you what they see in us, and I'd do the exact same f—ing thing if there was anybody out there for mobile: We're a hedge. Because they've got their business, and those businesses have thrown off a lot of cash. But Bob Iger probably realizes that his business, the biggest media company in the world, is going to go into a f—ing vortex and he needs to at least have some pathfinder saying, "Hey, Bob, I figured this out over here." They all do, quite frankly. And at least we're f—ing trying. Everyone [else] is galvanized into inactivity. They're like, "Yep, we're f—ed, we're totally f—ed. Should we try anything different? No, f—, no, no, don't unbundle." But unless you try f—ing something, you're not going to learn anything. So, when we came to them with our plans and said, "Here's how we're going do it and here's what we need," they all salivated because they're like, "F—, I'd do that with my company if I could, but I can't."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/warning-shane-smith-interview-has-861227
 

trza

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Massive layoffs at Vice UK? and the cable channel is averaging less than a quarter of what H2 channel in the USA was getting?
 
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