I've seen people rely on a couple of articles from the Vice Blog, but it's important to remember that they did not retract articles (or corrected them shortly after posting them), and they primarily shared current affairs without a lot of curation.
This is one reason why I don't use them as a source (although, I think Vice has gone bankrupt more recently).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost It's almost like an extreme version of this.
"blasting into the ether"
Perhaps, a better way of putting it is that it's a lot like treating articles like shells in a barrel. They are fired off and not revisited. And then, they move onto firing more shots.
If I start writing a blog, maybe I'll go a bit into this form of journalism, although honestly, I think it might be going downhill.
Vice went bankrupt.
Gawker's domain has expired.
Unfortunately, this style of "journalism" has created the impression that this is how journalism is done, and you get copycat blogs like "404" (Vice inspired) which similarly blast content into the ether.