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Vice to stop publishing on website, lay off hundreds
The Hill ^ | 02/22/24 6:10 PM ET | Dominick Mastrangelo

Posted on 02/22/2024 3:59:01 PM PST by packagingguy

Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing on its website, the company’s leadership announced this week. CEO Bruce Dixon said, “It is no longer cost effective to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously,” in a memo sent to employees and shared with several media outlets Thursday.

Vice is the latest in a slew of digital media companies that have been forced to lay off staff as a cost-cutting measure in an increasingly tough digital advertising market, increased fragmentation across the media landscape and fast-changing news consumption habits.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: msm; vice
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Ok the story is almost an hour old and I’ve just now been able to choke back enough tears to tell everyone.

Earlier today it was posted there were problems:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4219310/posts

I know we’ve all been hoping they’d pull through but it’s not to be.

Is there even one lone voice of the DNC left out there in the media? Just one?

1 posted on 02/22/2024 3:59:01 PM PST by packagingguy
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“It is no longer cost effective to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously,”

Let me guess...they are switching to print?


2 posted on 02/22/2024 4:03:32 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: packagingguy

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of commie SOB’s.


3 posted on 02/22/2024 4:03:41 PM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: packagingguy

Vice...................What a prefect description...............


4 posted on 02/22/2024 4:05:54 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: packagingguy

Put it to music: “Where have all of our writers gone-—long time passing....”


5 posted on 02/22/2024 4:06:52 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: packagingguy

It’s pretty safe to say that the NY Slimes, the Washington Compost, the LA Slimes, MSDNC and the Commie News Network will continue to be unpaid ad agencies for the Party of Satan.


6 posted on 02/22/2024 4:07:22 PM PST by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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7 posted on 02/22/2024 4:09:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dang. Best me to it


8 posted on 02/22/2024 4:14:38 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: packagingguy

Lets hope the same thing happens to “The Hill”.


9 posted on 02/22/2024 4:15:12 PM PST by Revel
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To: packagingguy

Too bad, so sad.


10 posted on 02/22/2024 4:30:30 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: allblues

The Ewww Yuck Slime make money. The others are money losers


11 posted on 02/22/2024 4:55:06 PM PST by Fai Mao (HeStarve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: packagingguy

“Learn to Code” alert!


12 posted on 02/22/2024 5:06:16 PM PST by kiryandil
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I thought they went broke a couple of months ago.

I’m willing to buy the URL for $25.00.


13 posted on 02/22/2024 5:17:16 PM PST by PAR35
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Four inch wide roll format with perforations


14 posted on 02/22/2024 5:20:19 PM PST by bigbob ( )
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“Let me guess...they are switching to print?

apparently they’re gonna “wholesale” their “content” to OTHER distributors, but i can’t figure out where that content will originate since vice will be laying off hundreds of staffers ... maybe AI-genned garbage: cheap but worthless ...


15 posted on 02/22/2024 5:31:00 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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“maybe AI-genned garbage: cheap but worthless ...”

I’ll bet you are right about that.

You can sure tell AI garbage, too. Just this morning, I was researching engine blocks, closed deck vs open deck. I found one excellent, factual, concise, insightful, well-organized, and non-repetitive article obviously written by an expert human.

Then I found another one that felt like it was written by a second grader, repetitive, full of superlatives, little technical content and annoying phrases; it was all just gloss and lots of useless filler. It would really be a challenge for a human to write that badly.

AI written articles are NOT ready for prime time. Maybe in 20 years. But they are pushing the crap on us way before its ready, just like EVs, windmill, and solar.


16 posted on 02/22/2024 6:14:58 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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Socialism the day other people’s money vanishes...


17 posted on 02/23/2024 2:41:46 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: packagingguy

There are young ladies making podcasts on How To Find The Best Yoga Pants and other stunning content and they have millions of followers why can’t the truth telling people at Vice generate even larger audiences by dropping truth bombs? Asking for a friend. Personally I don’t give a crap. 😎


18 posted on 02/23/2024 5:34:35 AM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: packagingguy

The outhouse won’t be the same without Vice slathered on the walls.


19 posted on 02/23/2024 11:23:26 AM PST by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: PAR35

They were in bankruptcy—then Soros and others bailed them out—now they are crashing and burning with a few dead cat bounces along the way....

They were vicious and insane left wing propagandists.


20 posted on 02/23/2024 11:31:28 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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