Shouldn't Deadspin do its own damn reporting?

[Dick Whitman]

Deadspin urges people to read the Natta-Wickersham collaboration about the Patriots today, then proceeds to crib all the important parts:

Bombshell ESPN Report: The Patriots Were Huge Cheaters And Roger Goodell Covered It Up

Does this not stretch the meaning of "fair use"?

 

[Songbird]

Dear Don and Seth,

Deadspin just raped you, without jelly.

Regards,
Songbird

Hey, Deadspin, 2 grafs and a link is a sign of respect. What you did is ****ing what the Patriots did. Show some ****ing respect for the reporters who put in the real time and energy.

 

[JayFarrar]

Yes. That's pretty awful.

 

[TyWebb]

I'll admit, I started out just reading the Deadspin "breakdown" of the article. Halfway through, I thought "what the hell am I doing? I can just read the damn article myself without Deadspin's jack-off commentary."

 

[JackReacher]

Cause rape is funny.

 

[Songbird]

Especially without jelly.

It's all the rage.

 

[Songbird]

Wetzel wemt nuts too but didn't have the common courtesy of linking to the story, unless I missed it.

 

[JackReacher]

Alleged locker room break-ins, secret tapes and Hamptons parties: The Patriots Way?

 

[Alma]

Pretty ****ty. But Deadspin often is.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Deadspin has no incentive to do any real work.
No idea why a serious journalist would patronize the site.

 

[LanceyHoward]

I think a reporter who complains about Deadspin linking to his story should be careful what he asks for. I read somewhere that most traffic on a typical newspaper website comes from people using links into the site A Deadspin link will drive a lot of traffic into your story that will make your publisher proud of you.

It is a current dilemma of newspaper industry.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I think a reporter who complains about Deadspin linking to his story should be careful what he asks for. I read somewhere that most traffic on a typical newspaper website comes from people using links into the site A Deadspin link will drive a lot of traffic into your story that will make your publisher proud of you.

It is a current dilemma of newspaper industry.

The problem isn't that Deadspin linked to his story. It's that Deadspin basically re-ran he story.

 

[schiezainc]

I think a reporter who complains about Deadspin linking to his story should be careful what he asks for. I read somewhere that most traffic on a typical newspaper website comes from people using links into the site A Deadspin link will drive a lot of traffic into your story that will make your publisher proud of you.

It is a current dilemma of newspaper industry.

This happened at a shop I used to work at. We had a story go national and Deadspin basically did this exact thing. It made the clickthroughs on our website's story go through the roof ... by our ****ty standards (I think we got 3K page views for a company that, maybe, gets 1,000 combined per month) while the Deadspin article itself got something like 85K clicks.
I'm sure ESPN doesn't need the help getting the links though.