Today’s episode is a heated debate between surf media’s Ashton Goggans from Stab Magazine and Chas Smith from BeachGrit. Topics range from the professional to the very personal and tempers flare into a physical altercation (33 minute mark!). Chas’s mudslinging tactics, Stab’s comments section, deleted articles, payment withholdings from advertisers, it’s all covered here. Welcome to Surf Media Debate 2018!

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THE DEBATE

Among the many things discussed . . .

An example of what Chas calls “Badvertorial” was this campaign published by Stab. CLICK TO SEE THE ORIGINAL POST

And this was Chas’s critique of the campaign. CLICK TO SEE THE ARTICLE

Naxto Gonzalez’s wave discovery was lauded by Ashton. Chas to exception to that article and wrote about in his column “The Weekly Grit”.

LINK TO ASHTON’S FULL ARTICLE

LINK TO CHAS’S CRITICISM ARTICLE

Similar Web’s Comparison of the two website. SimilarWeb.com

Form your own opinions by viewing their respective sites:

StabMag.com & BeachGrit.com

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