"Paul Thompson" (flyingphotog)
05/30/2015 at 12:42 • Filed to: None
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"Paul Thompson" (flyingphotog)
05/30/2015 at 12:42 • Filed to: None | 2
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It appears Flight Club is all but dead. This makes me very sad. Nothing new has been posted there since May 21st. There’s a guy about to take off on a
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
, but who cares, right?
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
The Douglas DC-8 first flew on this date in 1958, but that’s not important either. I’ve even emailed the Jalopnik guys about returning, but I did not receive a reply.
For Sweden
> Paul Thompson
05/30/2015 at 12:58 |
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But you get to miss out on the unionization drama, which is nice.
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Paul Thompson
> For Sweden
05/30/2015 at 13:10 |
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Unionization? Tell me more...
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For Sweden
> Paul Thompson
05/30/2015 at 13:17 |
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http://gawker.com/how-were-votin…
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Paul Thompson
> For Sweden
05/30/2015 at 13:31 |
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Wow! As an employee of a major airline, and member of a union whose leaders have been in contract negotiations for FOUR YEARS, I know that happy employees don’t unionize. This doesn’t surprise me though, coming from Gawker. The lack of communication and feedback when I wrote for Flight Club was infuriating! Matt and Co. cut me in early January after achieving record traffic in December (>800,000 unique US visitors). Totally blind-sided.
Chris Clarke
> Paul Thompson
05/30/2015 at 13:41 |
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¯\_()_/¯
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Paul Thompson
> Chris Clarke
05/30/2015 at 14:00 |
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It’s strange, but what can we do?
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For Sweden
> Paul Thompson
05/30/2015 at 15:10 |
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My recommendation would be to run from Gawker Media as quickly as possible
ihm96
> Paul Thompson
05/30/2015 at 15:15 |
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Weird. I used to read it, but havent been on it in a couple months, and now looking at it I see that the normal Jalop guys seem to have been posting it, but maybe not on the FP? Honestly, I really didn’t understand why they’ve tried to create so many sub-blogs. Sucks that Flight Club is no more :/ I’ll pour one out for it tonight :)
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ihm96
> Paul Thompson
05/30/2015 at 15:16 |
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Did they give you reasons or an explanation for cutting you? This seems like horrible mismanagement
f86sabre
> Paul Thompson
05/30/2015 at 16:03 |
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It’s a bummer. Those of us who have an interest in civil aviation have noticed. Tyler is doing good stuff around military stuff, but you guys were just starting to roll. Jalopnik succeeds due to the passion of the writers and you guys were bringing that to the aviation stuff.
As Sweden mentioned, there is all kinds of weirdness brewing in the Gawker universe. There is the union thing, the separation of subblogs like Oppo from the parent blog (see the URL), plagerism and other issues.
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Chris Clarke
> Paul Thompson
05/30/2015 at 16:41 |
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Start our own?
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Paul Thompson
> Chris Clarke
06/04/2015 at 00:15 |
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On Kinja? No fucking way... hahahaha.
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Paul Thompson
> ihm96
06/04/2015 at 00:19 |
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The sub-blog thing drove me nuts. I can see having designated sites for military and aviation, but then other blogs would still post their own military and aviation stories (and I’m not talking about promotional sharing). IMHO, if Gizmodo or Gawker or whoever wanted to post an aviation story, it should have gone straight on the page that focuses solely on that type of content.
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Paul Thompson
> ihm96
06/04/2015 at 00:24 |
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The exact verbiage I was given was: “We want to take the site in another direction. We want less airline content (even though those stories brought the most traffic), and we want someone who
isn’t afraid to be brutal
to the airlines.”
I feel like I wrote plenty of stories about the stupid things airlines do - new fees, bad customer service, etc. My “boss” didn’t see the value of getting me out there to experience and review new airline products or even the planes themselves, even though CAR reviews are a prime focus on Jalopnik.
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Paul Thompson
> Paul Thompson
06/04/2015 at 00:25 |
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The only reason I’d want to come back is for the money. It was pretty good.
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Echostar
> Paul Thompson
09/08/2015 at 11:50 |
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It’s Gawker, they want hit pieces. It’s unfortunate, I really preferred your stories.
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> Paul Thompson
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