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Peter Thiel Could End Up Owning Gawker (pagesix.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the bought-by-a-billionaire dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Gawker's assets are now up for sale, and Page Six reports that they could be sold to a Hollywood movie studio which is "seriously interested" in adapting the site's stories into movies or TV shows -- and is also looking into filming the story of Gawker itself. Another interested buyer is described as a "group of hard-core Gawker fans" who are currently performing their own due diligence. But the bankruptcy manager for Gawker "has not ruled out the possibility" of selling the site to Peter Thiel. Also up for sale are "potential legal claims" Gawker may have against Peter Thiel, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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  1. Imagine by onyxruby · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just imagine what Gawker can do with ethics and credibility. Gawker exhibited the worst of ethics free reporting and had the audacity to call it journalism. The potential of what Gawker could be under the right management is incredible.

    1. Re:Imagine by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Gawker exhibited the worst of ethics free reporting and had the audacity to call it journalism.

      I would have agreed with you a few years ago, but the unabashedly biased reporting being done today makes Gawker seem tame in comparison.

    2. Re:Imagine by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Gawker exhibited the worst of ethics free reporting

      You've never seen Breitbart, have you?

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    3. Re:Imagine by HalAtWork · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Not to mention myopic. Article authors don't look beyond their own nose for opinions or anecdotes. Everyone there is living in a bubble. It's in effect a self centered blog that attracts like and rejects anything incongruous.

      Completely useless at best, but most likely harmful overall.

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  2. Yeah, right by goose-incarnated · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also up for sale are "potential legal claims" Gawker may have against Peter Thiel,

    They've got nothing, and they know it. The difference between "potential legal claims" and "legal claims" is that the former is just a euphemism for "fiction".

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  3. No Biggee!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To my knowledge, Breitbart has never done anything comparable to hosting a nude video despite requests from the subject, and a judge, to take it down,

    Yeah., all they've done is sell nazism. No biggee compared to a 40-second video clip of a guy who had publicly bragged about his sexual escapades.

  4. Re:Peter Thiel is evil Sith cunt Republicanism by interkin3tic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, but the whole "I'm going to influence politics but might flee to New Zealand" really rubs me the wrong way.

    If you're a billionaire wanting to run a libertarian experiment with the united states, well first that's idiotic to do it at a national level given how awful the Kansas experiment is going. But if you choose to do it anyway, you fucking stay for the consequences, at least as much as a billionaire would suffer any real consequences. You don't give yourself and a few friends a lifeboat across the ocean for if things go wrong for the millions of the rest of us.

    Thiel seems to have realized Trump was a mistake after the shocker that the president wasn't socially progressive. Did Thiel apologize for speaking for Trump or donating money? Has Thiel been pushing anyone in the GOP to start challenging Trump? Recent events have proven the only thing worse than billionaire elites directing politics is the horde of voters directing themselves and a president willing to go wherever they lead him.