{"id":8670,"date":"2014-07-31T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T14:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8670"},"modified":"2014-07-31T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T14:53:40","slug":"i-write-about-the-rise-of-cracked-com-as-an-actual-journalism-behemoth-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/07\/i-write-about-the-rise-of-cracked-com-as-an-actual-journalism-behemoth-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"I Write About the Rise of Cracked.com as an Actual Journalism Behemoth Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

for AmSpec:<\/p>\n

Gallows humor is one of the most traditional and least savory elements of esprit de corps. For cops, doctors, soldiers, social workers\u2014anybody whose job site is the miserable human heart\u2014gallows humor puts the \u201cagainst the world\u201d into us-against-the-world. In a Venn diagram of \u201cjokes cops post in online forums\u201d and \u201ccivil rights violations,\u201d a lot of material would fall in the overlap area. Emergency-room abbreviations like CTD (Circling the Drain) or FDGB (Fall Down Go Boom) cauterize the emotions, triaging competence at the expense of empathy. When gallows humor enters journalism it\u2019s often dehumanizing without the excuse of necessity: I\u2019ll always love the tabloid style, but one day I realized that HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR describes the death of some mother\u2019s child.<\/p>\n

In this hard-bitten landscape, the journalistic experiment in empathy Cracked.com has embarked on is an outlier.\u00a0Cracked, which started out as\u00a0MAD Magazine<\/em>\u2019s kid brother, now looks more like a punk version of the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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for AmSpec: Gallows humor is one of the most traditional and least savory elements of esprit de corps. For cops, doctors, soldiers, social workers\u2014anybody whose job site is the miserable human heart\u2014gallows humor puts the \u201cagainst the world\u201d into us-against-the-world. 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