For those with the good fortune to be less online than I am all the time, first off: congratulations. I envy you.
Second, if you are one of those individuals, you may have missed this week’s spat between Deadspin and parent company G/O Media, the corporate overlords that wanted the successful business results of Deadspin and other former Gawker/Gizmodo Media Group properties, but never the edge, politics or personality that came with it.
That led to them demanding the blog “stick to sports” earlier this week. Then long-time editor Barry Petchesky was fired when they decidedly did not.