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Gawker.com To End Operations Next Week (gawker.com)
After nearly 14 years of operations, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week, the company's outgoing CEO Nick Denton told the staff Thursday. The decision comes days after Univision said it would buy Gawker Media properties -- Gizmodo, Jezebel, Kotaku etc (but not Gawker.com) -- for a sum of $135 million. The publication is currently in the middle of multiple lawsuits, with billionaire Peter Thiel revealing his clandestine legal campaign against the company. In a blog post, Gawker made the announcement. From the story:Nick Denton, the company's outgoing CEO, informed current staffers of the site's fate on Thursday afternoon, just hours before a bankruptcy court in Manhattan will decide whether to approve Univision's bid for Gawker Media's other assets. Staffers will soon be assigned to other editorial roles, either at one of the other six sites or elsewhere within Univision. Near-term plans for Gawker.com's coverage, as well as the site's archives, have not yet been finalized.
Gawker was largely a trash publication and provided little value journalistically. It was largely a place for snobs to act like jerks. They messed up publishing that Hulk Hogan video.
Who'd have thunk that that would ruin you? Not Nick Denton, that's for sure.
Hope he likes the poor life like the rest of us.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
MAybe they'll make Sam Biddle the waterboy now.
n/c
I thought the answer to speech you don't like was more speech. Not if you're Peter Thiel. He used his money and power to destroy a website because they called him a homo.
Had nothing to do with free speech. The website published a porno without permission of those in it. The website ignored a judge's order to take it down. The website destroyed itself. Mr. Thiel just helped that along. Think of that the next time you donate to the ACLU to do your bidding.
Good for him. And us. Helping people that have been wronged in order to "destroy a website" he don't like (and for good reasons - outing someone can have serious consequences!) is a good use of money instead of hoarding it.
FBI are usually SIGINT, whereas CIA are HUMINT. The problem is Slashdot is domestic (US) so it is FBI turf.
This is why you see the rookie HUMINT.
Thank you. I have never learned as much about spycraft as I have in the past few months of reading /.
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Karma, dude.
Slashdot is outed as FBI we know this. What are you implying here? This seems very off-topic to post here, other than you seem to be insinuating Slashdot FBI are mad they are outed?
So this guy publishes videos of people not only nude but having sex against their wishes (i.e., in many ways similar to rapes them), invades the private sex lives of others by outing their sexual orientation, and generally makes its money by bullying and mocking people, one defendant finally has enough money to defend himself against his army of lawyers, and all that happens to him is the one site files bankruptcy but then gets bought for 135M?
And here I was thinking that we might finally have something that could help reduce internet abuse.
"And nothing of value was lost." -- The Cynic
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Maybe 2016 will be a good year after all :D
Gawker was a shit tabloid rag with the worst of intentions. They ignored a court order and were held to account for it, end of story.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Breaking: web based media sites are dead.
Everyone has moved on to AI in-game Pokemon avatars that deliver your news to you in Pokebite sized chunks. Best part is, they never read the comments unless they're part of your Team locally or are your family.
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According to this article, Gawker Media also owns Gizmodo, Deadspin, Jezebel, Lifehacker, Kotaku, and Jalopnik.
They look safe for now, but I actually like Kotaku and Gizmodo. It's probably really shitty to work at these companies, which had nothing to do with leaking pr0n, but who's employees are still affected by it.
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
Good riddance.
Slashdot is outed as FBI we know this. What are you implying here? This seems very off-topic to post here, other than you seem to be insinuating Slashdot FBI are mad they are outed?
Yessss... I see your point.
You would be the person, I presume, to explain how the moon landings were faked and how the Earth is not quite the shape that we've all been led to believe it is?
Allow me to save you the time and effort of replying; I'll say it for you-
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WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!!
Anyone not condoned by the group-think SJWs saying things that they disapprove of = SHUT IT DOWN FOR BEING HARASSMENT
Group-think SJWs getting owned in court after ignoring a judge's order to remove a leaked sex tape video = FREEZE PEACH WE NEED FREEZE PEACH YOU AUTHORITARIAN RIGHT WING MORANS
Jezebel...that site is for a bunch of butthurt wannabe fascists posing as feminists. I've never seen so damn much whining about retarded bullshit in my life. Listen, if you want to be a feminist, try going after real issues but not nonsense like "zomg, air conditioning temperatures in offices is mansplaining sexist propaganda"(seriously, that's a real issue among many "feminists"), and be sure to call out any of the ladies who follow you when they start gawking(ha!) at the male Olympic swimmers or the like. Seriously, if we guys can't even look at you in public, don't think we don't judge you when you do it to other men, objectification is objectification regardless of who is doing it. There are REAL issues that feminists are needed for but Jezebel probably hasn't hit on anything that wasn't clickbait in years.
Bonus, CAPTCHA=decency
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Do you honestly think that keeps us from tracking you? I mean, really, mutt. You've been watching group porn, you -love- \r\conspiracy (you have been spending more time on voat lately, however), you haven't been on Rense or NewsMax as much though.
If I hadn't fucked up so badly on a field assignment, I wouldn't have gotten stuck watching your sorry ass. Go out to the parking lot around 9 this evening and look for a dark blue Taurus and wave.
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>Yessss
That is affirmative. They are mad.
The rest is just nothing anybody said. The moon landings were not faked. The Earth is as expected but was not always known.
FBI could flip burgers but it would mess up their Nordstrom Rack floodpants.
keep it real /. feds.
The Chinese missions supported by NASA show video of the earth looming huge, filling the sky above the lunar horizon.
The Apollo missions show the earth as a tiny blue marble in the sky.
Use your brain, go do some research, stop being a moron.
This case shows how a decision by a small number of editorial staff can shut down not just one publication but a publishing empire. The result will be far less journalistic freedom for reporters and far more caution by media proprietors who say "Hey, because I don't want to lose my company, just in case, let's *not* run this story."
Gawker's actions were mean and tacky, but your (understandable) dislike for them is clouding your judgment. As a "former journalist" you should have been able to see that.
The only reason I knew that site existed was the Gaymer Gators all hot and heavy over it. They told me of the greatest evil that existed on the internet, Gawker. So now the internet is safe again? Time magazine does not agree.
Neither are the people who worked for Gawker.
That Venn diagram doesn't intersect.
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because of the _reason_ they're going under. They got targeted by a billionaire who used the Hogan lawsuit & his incredible wealth the crush one of his journalistic enemies. As a former journalist you should probably be horrified by that.
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they were calling him out on a ton of shady business deals he had. Gawker did quite a bit of real journalism and used crap like Hogan's sex tape to pay the bills. That's sort of the trouble with modern journalism. It's tremendously beneficial to have them watching the 1%ers for us but these days it's tough to get that paid for. It doesn't help that we've let Murdoch buy up just about everything out there. Here, go watch this.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish. It's too bad the SJW propaganda rags pretending to be gaming sites aren't going down with the ship.
I thought the answer to speech you don't like was more speech. Not if you're Peter Thiel. He used his money and power to destroy a website because they called him a homo.
Had nothing to do with free speech. The website published a porno without permission of those in it. The website ignored a judge's order to take it down. The website destroyed itself. Mr. Thiel just helped that along. Think of that the next time you donate to the ACLU to do your bidding.
It's a league game, Smokey.
Or in the Hulkster's own words:
The truth about the moon is that it's made of cheese. That's why Pizza Hut charges so damn much for some small amount of extra cheese. Rockets there and back ain't cheap. #cheesegate #truefacts
Your IP has been tracked, anyways.
Not them, but I can oblige. Here is clear and recent poof of NASA faking space images of Jupiter, taken from NASA's own website site
and on the same website site, you can see that the "faked" June 30th photo is credited as being taken May 19. No wonder the photos look the same, they were taken during the same time period.
Calling what Gawker does, journalism, is like calling that evil monster from a horror flick "innocent girl" just because he is wearing her bloody face over his.
It's like corruption. In corrupt places, nobody can clean things up because everybody has something on somebody. Similarly, if every new media site needs to do questionable things to get the clicks (because real journalism doesn't pay compared to clickbait), then they're all vulnerable if they step out of line when some well funded guy comes along.
The problem is we are not willing to pay for quality journalism any more. It's a problem that no-one has found a solution to yet. Paywalls just destroy your readership base and comments sections. Adverts distribute malware and get blocked.
Someone needs to create a bitcoin based browser micro-tip plug-in. Set a monthly limit on tips, and automatically distribute when you spend more than 30 seconds on a page.
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>Gawker did quite a bit of real journalism
That word...
"during the same time period" - nope, the images are identical. You don't even have to resize them they match pixel perfectly when overlaid. The one was darkened a bit so that the "aurora" could be shown. Try again, there is ZERO MOVEVEMENT IN THE CLOUDS OR PLANETARY ROTATION, which even a few minutes would have created. It's the exact image, and the one with the "aurora" is being passed off as real. That means one or both are fake.
Now try debunking the bubbles coming off of space suits "in space".
Amazon does this already when you're a Kindle Unlimited customer
The problem is we are not willing to pay for quality journalism any more. It's a problem that no-one has found a solution to yet. Paywalls just destroy your readership base and comments sections. Adverts distribute malware and get blocked.
That's not true at all. There's sites out there that are increasing their readership based on their quality reporting and have been outstripping other sites. While those other sites who are driving for clickbait, making up BS and so on are driving into the tank. Let's look at an example: Breitbart has increased their readership by nearly 25m/daily views in the last 2 years. Huffington post has gone from 60m daily views to just under 20m in two years. The Spectator and spiked-online have both increased, while the guardian have decreased. And other sites even from here in Canada like Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, National Post have all accelerated their loss of readership.
You know what's unique about all of those sites who've lost readership? They're all pushing an agenda, they're all pushing far-left agendas, and they've all at one point attacked or continue to attack their readership. Whether it be in opinion/editorial or in the articles they publish. That alone shows that if you're simply publishing news, it's fairly unbiased, and so on you get viewership. Even breitbart has expanded and moved from just right-leaning reporters, editorial writers around 18mo ago and that further accelerated their gains in readership. An interesting thing with NAPO is around 15 months ago, they decided to fire their editors, replace some editors, fire a bunch of reporters, replaced their comment system to "facebook commenting" and guess what happened? Their readership fell through the floor. And many of those other sites which continue to hemorrhage, also gutting comment sections. Next up is NPR, and I expect the same to happen.
Om, nomnomnom...
So they bought all the sub-gawkers except for the main gawker.com, right?
When do we get to see Jalopnik TV on our local Univision station? The production values of the average Univision entertainment show combined with Jalopnik's focus on all kinds of cars (low-riders, anyone?) would be an awesome match.
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Gawker is a tabloid staffed by irresponsible paparazzi cowards with zero journalistic integrity. Big difference.
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There are a lot of shitty "news-like" sites out there. That is, sites that act like news and have staff that do "reports", but that often ignore any sense of journalistic ethics. OK, to be fair, a what would have once been considered "real" news agencies are the same way.
One of things about Gawker and its ilk, it's all about the clicks, and the clickbait and controversy. This resulted in a lot of "articles" that were little more than veiled attacks or flaming rhetoric. Sure, it got a lot of comments, but very little that was valuable or informative. Every now and then there would be an intelligent article but it was like finding a lost ring in a septic tank. Unfortunately while gawker.com might be dying, all those nasty little subsidiary sites appear to be continuing on to the new owners.
What does the ACLU have to do with this case? As far as I'm aware, they weren't involved at all. The ACLU does valuable work that should be important to every American. Like any organization, they will occasionally do things that you may not like, but they are there to protect you and everyone else from overreaching government intrusion into your civil rights. They have defended atheists, Muslims, and Christians in many religions liberty cases. They have defended African-American activists and the KKK in civil rights cases.
Of course, you are free to have a poor opinion of the ACLU. You'd be wrong but, ironically, the ACLU would defend your right to your opinion in the unlikely event you faced official persecution because of it.
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I don't log in any more.
Do you honestly think that keeps us from tracking you? I mean, really, mutt. You've been watching group porn, you -love- \r\conspiracy (you have been spending more time on voat lately, however), you haven't been on Rense or NewsMax as much though.
If I hadn't fucked up so badly on a field assignment, I wouldn't have gotten stuck watching your sorry ass. Go out to the parking lot around 9 this evening and look for a dark blue Taurus and wave.
brain fart. all bullshit.