Media news: In a memo, Vice CEO Bruce Dixon says the company will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing on the https://t.co/JeDcdfTJsW website.
VICE's preferred treatment of Saudi Arabia can be traced back to March 2018 with a production between VICE and the Saudi Research and Marketing Group about camel racing. This preceeded Shane Smith and Bone Saw Bin Salman yachting together.
It has been almost 3 months since most of our post-petition colleagues—people who were officially let go after VICE declared bankruptcy on May 15—stopped getting paychecks.
Many haven't received a single dollar in the severance they are owed. Here are some of their experiences.
Today at VICE I was unable to pull a court record, which costs 10 cents, because the company isn't paying bills
Meanwhile so many execs, some which led VICE to bankruptcy, make $700-900k, including bonuses at the time VICE laid off much cheaper workers. It's worse than I thought
Vice owes me $2200 in freelance fees and every two weeks the exec who tanked https://t.co/weec6bY2wr receives a paycheck that is more than my annual rent
"When I first started writing about Vice Media, Shane Smith was a self-proclaimed billionaire. Eight years ago I called BS. Today his company is going bankrupt."
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VICE never had the audience size it touted to advertisers. It never lived up to the fabricated hype. Most of what VICE produced wasn't edgy and when a story got interesting Shane Smith would swoop in and ruin it with his uninteresting face.
“VICE went woke”, “VICE used to be edgy”: Here are just a few of the reports I worked on in the past few years (including this year). In no particular order:
"Canadian ISIS YouTube Star" story by a staffer that was recently laid off. This was followed up by a 23 minute video of Shane Smith asking nothing of substance and letting someone spout of terrorist propaganda.
Add this to the list of Vice Media softball interviews.
-ISIS member
-White supremacist
-CEO of largest cigarette company.
And let's not forget Shane Smith meeting with Prince bone saw to do Saudi PR.
Hate writing pieces about colleagues. But the recent @VICENews exclusive from Russia is a masterclass on how to become a tool in someone else’s disinformation game https://t.co/qs5zr3zelx
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Exclusive: Gavin Responds To VICE Bankruptcy
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Gavin McInnes, co-founder of VICE Media, joins Harrison Smith of The American Journal to respond to Vice's recent bankruptcy filing.
May 2, 2023
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