And Gawker Media is still butthurt about VICE news: We Will Now Correct a Vice Media Co-Founder's Li - Polidicks

[quote] A couple of weeks ago, we ran a story about low salaries and a pattern of kowtowing to advertisers at Vice Media. It featured salary ranges provided to us by many current and former Vice employees. NOW, a weekly magazine based in Toronto, interviewed Alvi for this week's edition. Their story contains the following passage: VICE was recently raked by Rob Ford's favourite website, Gawker, for exploiting staff while its principals thrive. "We knew something was coming. They talked with people who worked here five or six years ago – a time when we didn't have the resources to pay people a lot of money." Alvi says staff now enjoy stock options and health benefits. Alvi's assertion that "They talked with people who worked here five or six years ago—a time when we didn't have the resources to pay people a lot of money" is false. We talked to employees who worked at Vice five or six years ago, two years ago, one year ago, and employees who work at Vice now. All of their salaries were—and are—low. These facts were detailed in our story. You will notice that both Suroosh Alvi's statement and Vice's official, expletive-laden response to our story referred to the company's basic benefits and stock options, but neither offered any data whatsoever to refute its own employees statements on the company's rock bottom salaries. When you have full time employees struggling to make $30K per year, stock options are probably not their first concern. Vice's pay for many employees was, and is, shockingly low. Of course, the company is free to pay whatever it wants. It shouldn't try to lie about it.[/quote] [url]http://gawker.com/we-will-now-correct-a-vice-media-co-founders-lie-1590457727/all[/url] Wow, Gawker's butthurtness is really cringeworthy.

Glad to see Gawker are still writing ground-breaking journalistic pieces on pressing international affairs.

They should settle this with an irl fight, each company should get a team of 4 together, get them some MMA training and just have them beat the shit out of each other.

$30k is not half bad if you're entry level and not an engineer, doctor or specialist. $30k w/ stock options and comprehensive healthcare? Sign me up.

tbh some of the VICE articles, especially on the UK site are shockingly bad.

[QUOTE=outlawpickle;45100725]$30k is not half bad if you're entry level and not an engineer, doctor or specialist. $30k w/ stock options and comprehensive healthcare? Sign me up.[/QUOTE] $30k a year for journalism? I would jump at that lol gawker is full of shit

[QUOTE=Hamsteronfire;45100890]tbh some of the VICE articles, especially on the UK site are shockingly bad.[/QUOTE] I'd say 1 in 5 of their articles is even OK but their documentaries are good enough to forgive this

[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;45100903]I'd say 1 in 5 of their articles is even OK but their documentaries are good enough to forgive this[/QUOTE] Some of their documentaries get pretty bad. There are times when it's pretty obvious their host is trying as hard as he can to sensationalize what they're covering. I believe they also once got accused of editing audio of children into the background of footage from some conflict they were covering (sorry, don't recall the details). But they're still better than Gawker.

[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;45100903]I'd say 1 in 5 of their articles is even OK but their documentaries are good enough to forgive this[/QUOTE] I only watch Vice videos where they go places. They're really great at those - I'm not really interested in their writing at all.

[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;45100903]I'd say 1 in 5 of their articles is even OK but their documentaries are good enough to forgive this[/QUOTE] IMO the writing suffers because at the end of the day VICE is some hipster magazine. The video output though seems to be on a completely different level, both in quality and terms of what they want to do with it.

[QUOTE=Hamsteronfire;45100890]tbh some of the VICE articles, especially on the UK site are shockingly bad.[/QUOTE] Agreed but its still just an important part of their marketing.