Vice Media, once a $6 billion empire, faced bankruptcy due to mismanagement of funds, shift in content to humorless and ideological, and betrayal of its original appeal. Ex-staffer @mcmoynihan details the downfall in an exclusive report.
How ‘Vice’ Went from a $6 Billion Media Empire to Bankruptcy https://t.co/MriVQRBcg0
Good post mortem analysis by @SignoreGondi We live, we learn. https://t.co/rg333GnuWU
EXCLUSIVE: It was hubris. It was the mismanagement of huge amounts of money. Most of all, it was a betrayal of everything its readers loved. @MCMoynihan documents the downfall of @VICE—from the inside: 🧵 https://t.co/GTQG4G6gxG
Were you a @VICE fan? I was. then I wasn't. in this brilliant podcast, @mcmoynihan says bold individuals are taking up the slack. I couldn't agree more. people like @friscolive415 @war24182236 @bettersoma are always on the SF front lines with a camera the courage to tell the real… https://t.co/YRLnKFEwif
Absolutely wild article by @mcmoynihan about the wokeness-accelerated collapse of Vice. Look at those traffic numbers... https://t.co/vvktvPYK4v https://t.co/qjEE5BLBn9
When Your Workers Hate Your Brand: How ‘Vice’ Went from a $6 Billion Media Empire to Bankruptcy https://t.co/ZpraWNXlQI
“The content became increasingly humorless, marked by undergrad ideological obsessions. @VICE was slowly transforming from the publication that gave America articles about ‘donkey fucking’ and ‘piss dungeons’ to a billion-dollar college paper.” Read on: https://t.co/LLJMCPrjuT https://t.co/xUy6u3I0JL
A @mcmoynihan must-read, in @TheFP, on the demise of Vice: https://t.co/vXq9qcXM3o
Here is @mcmoynihan's long-awaited piece about how Vice News went bankrupt while becoming the exact opposite of what made it rich in the first place. https://t.co/ueYORPyIfQ
The great @ryanlongcomedy teases Vice mercilessly, but the backstory is such a snapshot of our times https://t.co/mqunyaHRB5
How @VICE Went From a $6 Billion Media Empire to Bankruptcy It was hubris. It was the mismanagement of huge amounts of money. Most of all, it was a betrayal of everything that readers loved, writes ex-staffer @mcmoynihan: https://t.co/LLJMCPqLFl
There have been many autopsies written about @VICE. This one, by @mcmoynihan, who saw it all from the inside, is definitive and devastating. Read it in @TheFP: https://t.co/sVuBZl5KxZ