Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

I’m opposed to blanket bans on “sports and politics” & “pop culture and politics” takes, but I would be more opposed to them if most such takes weren’t dashed-off thumbsuckers, lorem ipsum lurking beneath clickbait HEDs, displaying deep knowledge of neither politics nor sports

That said, another website or series of websites drifting toward Salon-hood is one more canary in a coal mine (how many need to expire?) for an entire industry (small though it is in relative numbers) that fortunately now furnishes only my “fun money”

I’ve spent half a lifetime leaving fields that were on the way out ... academia and journalism, I hardly knew ya. It was real, it was fun, but it wasn’t real fun!

I hustled those takes, but hustling 500 takes is like benching 400 pounds ... who cares? People either don’t care what that means or will claim they or some acquaintance has done so much more. It’s fascinating !

There really is no “bad” writing, just rushed or half-assed writing, and everyone including me is doing one or the other

You give to much credit to awful writers.

"There are no bad writers" Lol, that sounds like something a 5th grade English teacher would say... are we using those same platitudes for adult columnists now?

I'm trying to be kind to all those "kids" out there "doing the work"