We have been here before and we will be here again: another news outlet has crumpled, laid off excellent reporters during an election year. Same shitshow, different day.
Yesterday, Vice — the obtuse, snotty Canadian skate magazine turned juggernaut international media outlet — announced it will shut down, with no real plan to preserve any of its work. After years of mismanagement1, the powers-that-be finally shoved some of the country’s finest extremism reporters (several who are women2) out into the rain, along with everyone else, and told them good luck, all the best to you, you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.