So This Will Be Interesting... /DRIVE & FLD

"Gated Manual" (gatedmanual)
02/16/2016 at 14:36 • Filed to: DRIVE, FLD, FAST LANE DAILY

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DISCUSSION (17)

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Gated Manual
02/16/2016 at 14:45

...or not....Chris Harris’ videos were just about the only thing I found tolerable. Matt’s videos are better when he is doing his own thing.

spanfucker retire bitch > Gated Manual
02/16/2016 at 14:48

Interesting? It will fucking suck.

To combat these negative forces, Time Inc. will abandon the traditional separation between its newsroom and business sides, a move that has caused angst among its journalists. Now, the newsroom staffs at Time Inc.’s magazines will report to the business executives. Such a structure, once verboten at journalistic institutions, is seen as necessary to create revenue opportunities and stem the tide of declining subscription and advertising sales.

This is such a huge thing for journalists that it’s routinely referred to as the “separation of church and state” in their industry. Perhaps it will have almost no effect for “autojournos,” but who can honestly say?

WRC541 > Gated Manual
02/16/2016 at 14:48

Screw drive. Great news for FLD!

Urambo Tauro > Gated Manual
02/16/2016 at 14:48

I hope this doesn’t have a negative effect on content. I’m proud of how FLD has grown over the years. Drive has been great, too.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Gated Manual
02/16/2016 at 14:50

FLD? Damn I haven’t heard of that in years...

Gated Manual > Gated Manual
02/16/2016 at 14:52

Here’s more info from TheDrive.com: http://www.thedrive.com/article/2043/t…

Going forward, Mike Spinelli will run video operations as Executive Producer for The Drive , including the programming on the YouTube channel DRIVE and FLD . Mike Guy will continue to run the editorial operations. Cross-pollination—a single team taking a Le Mans start together—will be where the rubber meets the road: Our storytelling will become even more ambitious, far-flung, and mind-blowing, and contributors to span platforms as well. Will Lawrence Ulrich be hurtling down the highway with Matt Farah in a 100-mph school bus? Maybe. Anything is fair game.

Gated Manual > Gated Manual
02/16/2016 at 14:56

And now /DRIVE posted this video:

Blondude > Gated Manual
02/16/2016 at 15:13

I knew it! They said they weren’t related to /DRIVE but I saw through the charade!

William Byrd > Gated Manual
02/16/2016 at 15:21

I chatted with mike in Detroit and had a feeling this was imminent. Keep an eye out for some RightFootDown collaboration with the new entity! We got to help them film one of the last /Drive segments . More to come!

StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8 > Gated Manual
02/16/2016 at 15:30

Was just going to post asking what the fuck happened to /Drive. I’ve been paying for /Drive+ for 2 months now with no content, now this. Would love if they came out and told us what was going on. At this point, why am I paying for content that isn’t coming out?

Gated Manual > Blondude
02/16/2016 at 15:43

Exactly. When i started seeing Alex Roy on there and the name it just seemed too coincidental.

Gated Manual > William Byrd
02/16/2016 at 15:44

thats really cool.

Gated Manual > Urambo Tauro
02/16/2016 at 15:46

Agree, I think its just the nature of the landscape. /DRIVE was dormant for about 5 months now, AMMONYC left, no new content. JF working on APEX so Mike Spins had to do something. I’m sure Musto was getting too antsy.

Blondude > Gated Manual
02/16/2016 at 15:49

That, and The Drive’s logo was identical save for a slightly darker orange on the slash.

Gated Manual > Gated Manual
02/16/2016 at 16:16

And from JF:

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Elumerere > spanfucker retire bitch
02/16/2016 at 18:56

It always has an effect on the journalists, regardless of content reported on. Just knowing that the business side will decide over content has a lot of folks self-censor upfront.

This is not good.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > William Byrd
02/16/2016 at 21:33

Nice!