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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.
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MAybe they'll make Sam Biddle the waterboy now.
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.
Karma, dude.
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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.
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Kotaku is indistinguishable from Gawker.com and buzzfeed.com. Fucking garbage.
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.
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Slowtaku exists for a reason.
You understand they were sued for something like 150 million right? Gawker has debts, and after all the legal fees and the judgement amount is paid he's going to be lucky if he has enough for a decent lunch. Filing for bankruptcy does not absolve you of debt. It just means that how you pay it all back gets adjudicated by the court. In this case, it's getting paid back by the liquification of his entire company.
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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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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.
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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
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.
The rules are pretty clear: don't break the law, don't slander, don't violate privacy.
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...
not absolve you of debt
Not true the court may absolve all or part of an obligation, especially if its clear you will never have the ability to pay.
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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.
They're just raging hypocrites, and claim that anyone who doesn't follow their progressive garbage are sexists. While their authors turn around and try to bully, shame, or attack people who refuse to bow down to their bullshit. Fun reminder it was Sam Biddle of Kotaku that cost them $1m-10m in lost revenue for his "bring back bullying" tweet...during bullying awareness month. And of course after that, they then started whining that the people who cost them that are the persons who are really the fascists.
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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.
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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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OP said filing does not absolve you. That is true, Also any absolution usually can happen after the company has no assets left to pay its debt with.
Gawker is a tabloid staffed by irresponsible paparazzi cowards with zero journalistic integrity. Big difference.
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Oh cry me a fucking river about the tweet. It was a "tweet", not an article, and one that was quickly clarified to be sarcastic joke, albeit not a very good one. I'm not going to deny that people that work for this news organization are a bunch of dicks...but this was a total red herring, with nothing to it. You're not talking about leaked secret emails or state dept. documents here.
Here's a fucking NEWSFLASH for you - people are human beings with opinions, and senses of humor. Gawker media is made of many, many of these entities, who may or may not all agree with each other.
They didn't write some elaborate article pontificating on the merits of bullying, as a news organization. One person made an unfunny joke in a whiny tweet, and the #Gamergate crowd apparently had skin thickness measuring in the sub-microns. FFS. Grow up. Everyone involved in this sucks, all around, and are a bunch of fucking crybaby drama queens. I shudder to imagine the epic meltdown when someone fucks up your Taco Bell order.
This same logic applies to "hypocrisy" you're attempting to point out. That concept only applies here, if we assume that there is one unifying voice that these entities all speak with. The authors at Jezebel and Gawker were obviously different people, with different motivations for what they were doing. At most, you're simply pointing out contradictory viewpoints from different authors, published on two different websites owned by the same company. That's not exactly a case of "hypocrisy" any more than it is for Fox to have their news channel, and run a blatantly left-leaning program like Family Guy, or a newspaper running contradictory editorials. You need more evidence, showing a biased intent, to support such a claim.
If you want to talk about hypocrisy - how about the attempts to crucify some NY dumbass over a tweet, while meanwhile, the #Gamergate crowd was saying and doing some pretty horrific shit, in a lot of the places that they had an online presence. Can you really fucking bring up "bullying" with a straight face, when women were literally receiving deaththreats for the injurious crime of having unpopular opinions, and wanting to voice those in a public place? If you're so against "bullying" in games journalism why wasn't that the focus of your goddamn campaign? I imagine you have some BS definition of "Gamergate" that does the No True Scotsman's shuffle to distance yourself from those folks, and some token "hey guys...chill out" forum post, but seriously - fuck that. You can't remove those parts of your "movement" for being too extreme, and then condemn something like Gawker media, as a whole, without, yourself, being pretty big fucking hypocrites. I'd put the onus of responsibility on YOU to explain why so many terrible fucking people flocked to your banner, and said and did some pretty terrible things in your name - on your forums, in your comment sections, and so on.
Like I said - you all suck. Gawker sucks for what they did to Hogan, and deserved to lose the case. Gamergate sucked, and was a bunch of horseshit that embraced terrible people saying terrible things. Fuck you all.
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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You had to pull out salty as your flavor huh? Maybe you should just get up and walk away from the internet for awhile.
Here's a fucking NEWSFLASH for you - people are human beings with opinions, and senses of humor. Gawker media is made of many, many of these entities, who may or may not all agree with each other.
They didn't write some elaborate article pontificating on the merits of bullying, as a news organization. One person made an unfunny joke in a whiny tweet, and the #Gamergate crowd apparently had skin thickness measuring in the sub-microns. FFS. Grow up. Everyone involved in this sucks, all around, and are a bunch of fucking crybaby drama queens. I shudder to imagine the epic meltdown when someone fucks up your Taco Bell order.
Oh they didn't? You should go back and re-read some of their stuff. If you think bullying in any form even joking is such a light hearted topic to simply say people should be bullied because they're calling out your serious ethical misconduct, well you're just a shitty human being like many of the writers for Gawker. One can't forget either the parts where they simply lied. You know much like how all those people who claimed harassment, really didn't get any harassment from GG. 3rd party trolls yep. But GG? Then again, perhaps you can come up with the point why someone who is using their work account(on twitter) and is expressing that viewpoint shouldn't be held up to said standard that bullying is bad.
Yeah all those people at all those organizations had a reason. They were writing clickbait to draw in the views, it didn't work. And it even backfired. As one can see with all of those advertisers having decided to say "fuck it, we're not renewing/continuing to advertise with them." Who knew? Actions have consequences. Isn't that what you'd say if Gawker had said(to paraphrase) "the tape of a 5yr old(or older) being raped is acceptable to post and is in the interest of the public."
If you want to talk about hypocrisy - how about the attempts to crucify some NY dumbass over a tweet, while meanwhile, the #Gamergate crowd was saying and doing some pretty horrific shit, in a lot of the places that they had an online presence. Can you really fucking bring up "bullying" with a straight face, when women were literally receiving deaththreats for the injurious crime of having unpopular opinions, and wanting to voice those in a public place? If you're so against "bullying" in games journalism why wasn't that the focus of your goddamn campaign? I imagine you have some BS definition of "Gamergate" that does the No True Scotsman's shuffle to distance yourself from those folks, and some token "hey guys...chill out" forum post, but seriously - fuck that. You can't remove those parts of your "movement" for being too extreme, and then condemn something like Gawker media, as a whole, without, yourself, being pretty big fucking hypocrites. I'd put the onus of responsibility on YOU to explain why so many terrible fucking people flocked to your banner, and said and did some pretty terrible things in your name - on your forums, in your comment sections, and so on.
If you believe that, you deserve to be lied to. And you deserve the yellow press that gawker has been printing. Since it's been going on for nearly 2 years at this point and there has been 0 actual cases of anyone in GG proven to have done this. None, you go digging back through the sources of those claims? No proof. No proof offered. No police complaints, no one arrested, not a single person even charged that belongs to GG. But there are cases of anti-GG doxing people, there are cases of people calling in bomb threats against GG, in multiple cases at multiple meetups, and at the SPJ conference. There was a case just last couple of weeks of prominent anti-GG members attempting to dox someone. It doesn't get any clearer then that bit of reality.
I know, reality hurts.
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First off - no - , you made a claim that you utterly failed to follow up with. I've read their response - they still didn't write an article, or take an official stance, defending bullying, which is the impression the hysteria from your camp projects. Other people chimed in about the tweet, but nothing you folks clutch your pearls about holds water. You were basically farming for something - anything - to try and legitimize your group as being some kind of misunderstood victim, due to the term "sexist asshole" being nearly synonymous with "GamerGate". Nobody bought the act, sorry. You can't get blood from a turnip, and it was just a fucking tweet, not a Wikileaks dump, ffs.
Seriously fuck off with the whole "shitty human being" schtick. As I already pointed out, you GG folks didn't give TWO SHITS that actual female games journalists were getting DEATH THREATS and publicly doxxed - not having to deal with the much more severe problem, apparently, of reading a sarcastic tweet. How the fuck can you even bring up doxxing with a straight face...as though those women didn't have their personal information spread far and wide, all over the Internet in an attempt to cause them harm? Are you really THAT fucking delusional, that you see all the terrible shit that happened to those women as having nothing to do with what you call GG? Like no connection? All just a big coincidence?
The irony here is thick...on Monday you go on and FUCKING ON about how terrible easily offended "PC" culture is, with all of their SJW melodrama...and give us a lot of emo reasons as to why they're ruining your life, or whatever, and then, on Tuesday, you expect us to call in the national guard because some dipshit made a stupid NY-attitude tweet that hurt your little feelings. Yeah fucking right. Do you people not have a dictionary? Do you not know what a "contradiction" is?
The case is real simple, here. You can't bitch about some tweet, that offended you, when you didn't come to the defense of female journalists that were being ruthlessly threatened, and both condemn such cowardly acts and strongly clarify your group's positions in contrast - at the time. That didn't happen. You fucks added fuel to the fire and made these women's lives miserable.
Just for clarity, again, - my position is that you all suck. Fuck Gawker and their public shaming tabloid horseshit, and fuck GG and your anti-SJW mob-mentality bro-time horseshit. You fucks are two sides of the same god damn coin, and frankly I'm glad that both of you are dropping from the limelight. The world will be a better place. Maybe now people can be gay in the privacy of their own home, if they want to, and a woman can use her 1st amendment rights to speak about video games without a bunch of fucking neckbeards having an god damn aneurysm.
The rest of what you say is bullshit too. Like I predicted, you immediately pulled out the "No True Scotsman" card to explain away how GG is never responsible for anything...it's those mysterious "3rd parties". Give me a fucking break. Assholes have been saying shit like this since the dawn of time to scapegoat blame. Again, you'd have us believe that it was all a coincidence? That these "3rd parties" just happened to target female journalists at the same time your "totally legitimate" organization also had a lot of inflammatory rhetoric aimed at them? Sure....Fuck that.
So yeah, no fucking way do you get to start drawing imaginary borders between the things you do and do not want your little anti-SJW crusade to be associated with, and expect others to simply accept your convenient distinctions. Like a SJW, you know a GG jerk-off pretty much immediately.