hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

either way, was a somewhat entertaining follow while it lasted

it just has no actual insider facts / is making vague accusations based on the popular perception of the sites / claims to have worked with every new media property in the wolrd

like real insider info looks like m@x r3ad only continues to employ hami1ton n0lan under threat of "squatting u right out the fuckin window"

I need useful gossip, like what does ca1ty w3aver smell like

http://i.imgur.com/l3ug0tp.jpg

i remember at one point the account (whoever it was) tweeted something about "among folks at gawker i worked with, have to say sam biddle was a pretty good guy" or something to that effect, in the midst of a gawker hatespew, and biddle immediately responded with "FUCK OFF," i loled

hah

this is so petty of me but i don't think i could ever take a guy named 'biddle' seriously

Biddle is an old-money Philly name

I've always wondered if Sam was from that line

the main line haha

Nice!

sam biddle always puts me in a mind for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63nMcrwporQ

(from about 0:10-0:25)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biddle_family

Owen Biddle, Sr. (1737–1799), American Revolutionary War soldier, mathematician, astronomer, observed 1769 transit of Venus at Cape Henlopen, member of the American Philosophical Society, married Sarah Parke
John Biddle (1763–1815)
William Biddle (1806–1887), married Elizabeth Garrett (1806–1881)
Samuel Biddle (1844–1919), Bailey Banks & Biddle jewelry store

Just did some hard-hitting journalistic investigation - here are my results

oh i know that place it's in king of prussia iirc

granted this is from the pando hit piece about valleywag, so, duh bias also pando is gross as discussed upthread, but here be some background:

...if you’re going to wage a fake class war, then, Sam Faulkner Biddle is the perfect fake class warrior for the job. Long before he got his gig wailing about “spoiled brat” tech founders who owe their success to their fathers, Biddle gained entry to the prestigious Johns Hopkins university with no help whatsoever from his own father, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist — and Johns Hopkins lecturer — Wayne Biddle.

pando publishes the war nerd so i give them a pass for that

said wayne biddle is from baltimore, apparently - cornell graduate, extremely successful, worked at the NYT, harper's, et. al.

not to get off track but the war nerd is like the worst person in the world, with the worst name

I guess it's easy to clown on 'Biddle' when you have a hilarious Johnny Depp film named after you

"exmediaman" definitely never worked at gawker

imho mortdecai < def not the same etymology as mordechai

literally has almost the same letters cmon

i think i knew who the war nerd was at one pt; it's just one of the exile/pando dudes (obv)

The name "Mordechai" is of uncertain origin but is considered identical to the name Marduka or Marduku attested as the name of officials in the Persian court in thirty texts (the Persepolis Texts) from the period of Xerxes I and his father Darius, and may refer to up to four individuals, one of which might have served as the prototype for the biblical Mordecai.

The name is commonly interpreted as a theophoric name referring to the god Marduk with the understanding that it means "[servant/follower/devotee] of Marduk" in Aramaic. (The Book of Daniel contains similar accounts of Jews living in exile in Babylonia being assigned names relating to Babylonian gods.) Some suggest that as Marduk was a war-god, the expression "[servant] of Marduk" may simply denote a warrior - the popular translation of "warrior" is commonly found in naming dictionaries. Others note that Marduk was the creator in Babylonian mythology whence the term might have been understood by Jews to mean simply "[servant] of God".

mort seems more latin mortis related

ty for your knowledge, I will make sure to pronounce it with a hard 't' so you don't get confused

update: i tried reading this and i couldnt

― no (Lamp), Tuesday, February 24, 2015

this was my experience at the time iirc i.e. ~what are you even saying man~ but people seemed to like it \o_0/

i think it's a political thing like a defense against conservative opinion that snarkiness is somehow bad i don't think ppl were digging it for stylistic reasons (but i could be wrong)

labored over concision

hmm isn't this 'writing'?

http://www.bigfatpandamusic.com/wp-content/gallery/general-gallery/dancing-panda-fastest.gif

hmm isn't this 'writing'?

― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 1:51 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

If you conceive of writing as rule-based and running through a checklist sure *shrug*

Don't question me man I read a LOT of thinkpieces I know a good one when I see one :|

― 龜, Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:47 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new borad description ?

its about ethics in tabloids

i like on smarm, i just thing it lacks a data angle

that is very... scientific of you

― iyo iyo un day (how's life), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 8:48 AM (4 hours ago)

fp'd you for this

I'm not the one with a goddamn cartoon dingdong in my dn. fp'd in return.

fair

fp'd you both

=P

i think i am going to email my mom the smarm article to see what she thinks of it. she uses that word in the way scocca describes more or less and i think she arrived at this habit independently

I think I am going to email your mom too

can you ask yr mom to stop emailing me pls

i am sorta torn about the article. i think you can have a keep it positive attitude without the sanctimony/evasiveness/dishonesty or the constant appeals to authority. like bam said, i generally prefer more descriptive literary criticism to "takedowns," for instance. snarkiness seems more reflexive than critical. cynicism can be its own kind of complacency.

i loved on smarm i think it is a useful tool for thinking about public discourse these days

I knew someone in high school with the last name Biddle. Facebook tells me she's a Gavin DeGraw fangirl now. (There's probably a name for them, like DeGraw-dogs or something.)

i like the article, the only problem is that "smarm" is already a word and it doesn't mean what scocca was trying to make it mean though in principle i am all for single-handedly attempting to change the definitions of words through sheer bloody-mindedness

brb calling the mothership

re: gawker dickholes, i think it just goes with the territory of tabloids/readers of tabloids, the whole business is about treating other people like prey. my great uncle was the editor of a British tabloid back in the day and he'd make the gawker dickholes of ilx weep in shame for failing their potential. i mean, there are threads on this board designed to lure people in just to smack them around and laugh at their expense. i'd say it all fits together pretty nicely, no reason not to be real about it.

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