#Slatepitch

Oh man, I've missed a proper #SlatePitch trainwreck.

When they made the proposal for this it was a #slatepitch

One of the problems of media concentration is that the NYT now has to fill all the roles that were previously distributed among different outlets. Here an excellent example of a classic #SlatePitch

#Slatepitch run amok

"sinners set a record for not winning the most awards for which it was nominated" is a bizarre film-critic take ... but an incredible throwback to the classic #SlatePitch of yore.

When you get sucked in by a #slatepitch once again

This is like a parody of #slatepitch

A vintage #SlatePitch if every there was one. Really liked this essay taking a different view on what's no doubt a classic video game.

It's very #slatePitch! Something that I thought we'd ended a while back. Hm, like fascism.

In many ways this is bad for Canada (no this isn't a #slatepitch) as most tariffs on Canada were S 232 not IEEPA. So we had a relative advantage to the rest of the world.

#SlatePitch from the NYT

SLATE 4d Slate.com When the Quad God wins gold, remember - told you SO. https:// /slate.trib. .al/XNMSwC5 As a Figure Skating Expert, ItIs My Responsibility to Tell You That Ilia Malinin is Unbeatable BY CHRIS SCHLEICHER MLANDCCRTINA 2026 SLATE

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This would have killed as a #slatepitch circa 2011

#Slatepitch: We interview someone who tries every homemaking hack they get in their email.

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a classic #slatepitch if ever there was one

Varsity Blues was such a hit in large part because of the scarcity of the nudity market #slatepitch

We should have never rewarded #SlatePitch writing or writers (which didn't include many of the mainstays at Slate, you all know who I mean).

It’s One of Our Most Controversial Genres. But Even More Controversial Is How You Pronounce It. We have reached Peak Biopic—but still no one agrees on how you say the word.

And finally, Sam Adams goes full #slatepitch with a nerdy deep dive into the history & proper pronunciation of the word "biopic": slate.com/culture/2025...

A Mantra for the Democrats And stop pretending that party platforms are just messaging.

Hats off to @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social for writing what we used to call a #SlatePitch goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/a-mantra-f... TLDR: the Dems are actually in a okay spot all things considered, they don't need major change

If You’re an American, There’s One Team to Root For This World Series The Death Star didn’t need any more encouragement either.

Is #SlatePitch still a hashtag?
slate.com/culture/2025...

I think the saddest part is that this obvious #SlatePitch can't even get engagement on X, The RageBait App

There’s an Inconvenient Fact You Never Hear About the Trumps’ Crypto Empire His family just made as much as $5 billion on a single token launch—while reshaping U.S. policy to keep the industry on their side.

bit of a #slatepitch from me: the Trump family's crypto businesses get attention for the self-dealing and high income-on-paper ($5 billion!). what gets ignored is they've *all* crashed in value and usership—and they're geared toward a more sinister goal than self-enrichment slate.com/technology/2...

Could have been a #slatepitch back in the day

Why Neville Chamberlain Was Right Seventy-five years ago, on Sept. 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, handing portions of Czechoslovakia to...

IIRC, Hitler was shocked that Chamberlain went to war over Poland after what happened a year earlier. If that sounds slightly like a classic #slatepitch, that's not an accident: slate.com/news-and-pol... Like any good @theresthistory.bsky.social fan, I'll point the finger at the French instead.

Slate was better during its #SlatePitch era because at least it had an angle. Now the closet thing to an angle it has is "We replaced the one good insightful advice columnist with fifteen dull and uninteresting ones."

So, if I understand correctly, the #slatepitch response to the jumbotron story wouldn’t be “why infidelity is good akshully” but “why it’s entirely normal and valid to buy tickets to see Coldplay”

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at some point in the last 20 years, Slate probably should have evolved past the #slatepitch

Console gaming might be dead but long live the #slatepitch