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Gawker.com Sold To Bleacher Report Co-Founder Bryan Goldberg In Bankruptcy Auction (cnn.com)
The now-dormant news and gossip website Gawker.com was sold on Thursday to Bryan Goldberg, the founder of Bustle and co-founder of Bleacher Report. According to CNN, the site sold for less than $1.5 million. From the report: Goldberg founded the sports website Bleacher Report along with three other people in 2005; in 2012, they sold it to Turner, which like CNN is owned by AT&T. He launched Bustle, a website focused on women's issues, in 2013. Goldberg addressed the Gawker sale in a Bustle internal email on Thursday, saying the site will be acquired "under a new holding company, separate from Bustle."
"You are probably wondering what happens next," he said in the email, which was obtained by CNN. "The short is this -- not much. We have no immediate plans to re-launch Gawker. For now, things will stay as they are. I'm very excited about the possibilities for the future of Gawker. I will share more in the months ahead." The sale includes an archive of hundreds of thousands of Gawker stories and social media accounts affiliated with the site. Gawker Media was sold to Univision in 2016 for $135 million and renamed Gizmodo Media Group after the company declared bankruptcy, "the result of a legal assault waged by the former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan that was secretly subsidized by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, a longtime Gawker adversary," reports CNN.
"You are probably wondering what happens next," he said in the email, which was obtained by CNN. "The short is this -- not much. We have no immediate plans to re-launch Gawker. For now, things will stay as they are. I'm very excited about the possibilities for the future of Gawker. I will share more in the months ahead." The sale includes an archive of hundreds of thousands of Gawker stories and social media accounts affiliated with the site. Gawker Media was sold to Univision in 2016 for $135 million and renamed Gizmodo Media Group after the company declared bankruptcy, "the result of a legal assault waged by the former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan that was secretly subsidized by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, a longtime Gawker adversary," reports CNN.
I figured it get bought up by a revenge-porn site.
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No, it was the result of Gawker publishing Hogan's sex tape against his will, then ignoring a judge who ordered them to take it down, then publishing an article gloating about how they were ignoring the judge, then - when it went to trial again - telling the court that they'd happily publish a sex tape featuring a five year old. These guys were scum and they committed legal suicide - it was not inflicted upon them by Thiel even though every single story Slashdot publishes on this subject tries to spin it this way.
Gawker: court order be damned people need to see stolen footage of Hulk Hogan fucking Bubba The Love Sponge's wife
Jezebel: looking at stolen nudes of Jennifer Lawrence is no different than sexual assault
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The various websites associated with Gawker are so terrible it is comical.
Whether it's The Root with its articles which foment racially-based hatred, or Jezebel with "relationship advice" which comes from people who should be held as in-patients in a mental health facility, the whole mess is a waste of electrons.
I suppose Gawker is good for keeping idiot SJWs busy at night, though. That may be its single redeeming feature.
Occasionally doing some good in the world doesn't justify all of the terrible things some one has done as well. I don't suspect you'd let off someone who mugged a bunch of people at knife point just because they used some of the ill gotten gains to feed some of the area homeless. The only tragedy in all of this is that a person apparently needs a wealthy person to bankroll their court case in order to have a chance of getting justice.
Gawker was a shitty place for shitty people. The muck was to make click bait money and anything approaching actual journalism was likely an accident. It's almost certain they only went after Thiel due to his political leanings, not because they care about shady business. The number of their former staffers that showed up on the Shitty Media Men list says a lot about them. You might have decided to give them a pass because they appeared to espouse your beliefs, but they were horrible people who realized that they could get away with being horrible people as long as they told people like you what you wanted to hear.
Comparing Gawker to Sinclair says a lot more about you than it does Gawker. Gain some perspective and I think you'll see that nothing was lost.
Remember Upton Sinclair's Jungle? That's the kind of journalism we just lost.
Ironically, Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" was written to be a workers-rights labor-justice piece, but it was taken up by the middle class as a 'Health Code' cleanliness issue.
And let's not let go of the reality that Gawker thought they were going to make a mint crushing a 'little guy' who couldn't defeat them (Hulk Hogan) and didn't know he had a deep pockets backer. How many other victims did they have on the list to make money by attacking?
It's just semi-algorithmic crapflooding. You see a pattern for a reason.
You do know what muckraking is, in respect to journalism, right? Calling any journalist a muckraker is a compliment.
For what it's worth, Gawker did do muckraking from time to time, so you're right even though you meant something completely different. Despite everyone's desire to depict Gawker as the worst thing ever, it had both ups and downs: it was the first publication, for example, to investigate and report on what Harvey Weinstein was doing to aspiring actresses.
Bizarrely, the thing that lead to its death (no, not the Hogan sex tape, if Gawker hadn't published that Thiel would still have killed it using the strategy he pursued) was actually part of an attack on homophobia in Silicon Valley. It didn't reveal anything that wasn't already widely known, but it was inconvenient for Thiel.
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Yeah...it seems Payboy/Hustler etc had some of the best journalism in the 80's. Perhaps porn will save us after all. I'm being serious. Myanmar-Facebook certainly is not helping.
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"they were horrible people who realized that they could get away with being horrible people as long as they told people like you what you wanted to hear. '
Fox / CNN / Facebook ....I'm sure others can insert more.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Actually...they do point out the different sects and races of people who are lumped in as "jews." The word 'jew" is very confusing to any layman who actually takes a look into what it means as the people called jews have various groups who look very different and have radically different agendas. The main beef is with a certain strain of "jew" which he points out is not really a jew and who's zionist agenda has hijacked the jewish race and religion to confuse and manipulate people. The zionists are real fucks. That is truth I wish was easier for people to talk about.
The jews that are mentioned in the bible are not the zionists. They are a peace loving and benevolent people who oppose zionism. Very interesting but a lot of people get confused or scared when approaching the subject and never get the facts. Especially when they see hateful posts like the above.
I feel for the real jews, the Palestinians, and the other billions of people who are getting duped by these asshole zionists. They stir a bunch of shit through the whole world--basically in the shadows. You hear the terrorists often mention zionists but they use the word "jew" to mean the same thing essentially. Zionists now consist of a lot of white evangelicals (protestants offshoots/cults) who promote the cause because they have fallen for the fake connection between modern land grabbing assholes that call themselves jews and the jews mentioned in the bible. To make it more confusing, the real jews live amongst the "fake jews" in Palenstine.
I escaped a popular zionist protestant cult that I was indoctrinated into at a young age. The people who helped form the "state of Isreal" after WW2 sent people to America in the 1800's and bankrolled their efforts to start protestant sects that support their cause--indoctrinating the adherents to the philosophies of zionism through the veil of Christianity. These sects (religions) are still here and still operate. Zionism literally is the devil.
As best I can tell, the zionist jews are a people descended from what we might think of as "gypsies." Blows my mind, and I'm still trying to figure it all out. It is tough because once you dig in you start tripping over a lot of general anti-semitisim that clouds your research. Zionists love anti-semitism...without it they are powerless.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
As much as I despise Gawker (I was genuinely jubilant when they declared bankruptcy), I really don't see any issue here.
We're talking about two distinct publications here and there's nothing that says all publications owned by a particular company have to make up a Sinclair Media type hivemind.
"Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."
is now legal assault. Modern media is retarded.
And Sinclair is right wing propaganda. Gawker is muckracking journalism that often brings to light the abuses of our ruling class. There's no comparison. I'd take Gawker any day of any week and so should you if you value freedom.
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