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re: Deadspin sold; Entire staff canned
Posted on 3/13/24 at 8:04 am to Ag Zwin
Posted on 3/13/24 at 8:04 am to Ag Zwin
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G/O Media sells Deadspin, lays off entire staff with barely any notice amid ‘blackface’ scandal
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Among those was senior writer Carron Phillips, who penned an incendiary column last November that accused 9-year-old Chiefs fan Holden Armenta of racism against Native Americans and black people for wearing “blackface” and headdress to a football game.
Phillips failed to mention that Holden is of Native American descent, and he was wearing war paint, with one color covering each side of his face.
Holden’s grandfather, Raul Armenta, sits on the board of the Chumash Tribe in Santa Ynez, CA, according to the Post Millennial.
“Journalism — and the country as a whole — is better today now that Carron Phillips no longer has a platform to target innocent kids with his agenda-driven writing,” Libby Locke, the lawyer representing the family, told The New York Post.
“We are also grateful to G/O Media for infusing the company with cash that can be used to pay the judgment the Armenta family is going to win against it.”
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