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

iiiiinteresting

man kinja commenters are really into being kinja commenters aren't they

gotta have somethin to do at work

I was really confused by the phrasing in this: http://gawker.com/texas-college-student-allegedly-killed-over-beer-pong-g-1709026113

Lacie LaRose, a 19-year-old student at Blinn College, was shot and killed at a graduation party last month after a fight that began as an argument over the rules of beer pong, according to one witness. Ronald McNeil, the 39-year-old alleged killer, told police that the fight was racially charged.

The Bryan-College Station Eagle reports that LaRose was killed at a May 2 party hosted in College Station, Tx., by Landon Duke, a 23-year-old recent graduate of Texas A&M. Duke told the Eagle that McNeil came back to his house and shot LaRose after he had already been escorted out of the party because of the earlier fight.

It took me like five reads to figure out that "by Landon Duke" was modifying "a May 2 party hosted" and not "LaRose was killed."

http://jezebel.com/13-year-old-girl-dies-by-suicide-after-dad-shares-publi-1708967488

"While the social media mob is busy coming for Laxamana’s family, it’s also important to note that determining cause and effect when it comes to suicide isn’t easy"

nevertheless...

whenever gawker pretends to give a shit it makes their whole ethos ten times more infuriating

amazing essay by bunnie

http://gizmodo.com/why-its-easier-to-innovate-in-china-than-in-the-united-1709911838

here you go, max:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/business/media/gawker-nick-denton-moment-of-truth.html?rref=homepage&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Home%20Page&pgtype=article

noteworthy journalistic coups include an investigative article revealing that the football star Manti Te’o had an imaginary girlfriend and the publication of photos said to show Brett Favre’s penis

balance in all things

yo fuck hulk hogan

hey hulk hogan

FUCK you

i know, ridic

it's kind of hysterical that Hulk Hogan of all people poses such a grave threat to Gawker. another hilarious part of that article is the terrifying realization that the "whatever, we'll just settle out of court" strategy may not work in this case

hey is alfred reading this thread. alfred? you are a free speech absolutist, right? is this a meaningful use of free speech protections? if somebody filmed me having sex & posted it online i would want $100m, & would not be totally won over by the argument that somebody's right to free speech extended to buying/circulating the video. even if - even if - i had discussed having sex on the radio. am i wrong or is this dubious, i need counsel.

I pasted it in the wrong thread.

Saw this thread revived and assumed the NYT story was responsible.

Hey gawker dudes, whatcha gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on you?

“I’m pretty sure..." *wah wah on muted strings* "...we have a revolution coming,” said Nick Denton. *voodoo child intro* "A new world order..." *E chord hits like a jackhammer as Hollywood Hogan enters Nick Denton's SoHo loft*

“A lot of our traffic last year came from stories that we weren’t ultimately proud of,” Mr. Denton said.

You don't say.

i guess "ultimately" is a tic but i like the implication that they were proud of them at first but over time disillusionment set in

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHzndVfXAAA-ndB.png

ts: "good-ass kinja" vs "good-ass neden"

is that Evil Chuck Johnson's libel suit?

y

he leaked it to milo yiannopolous lol

still can't tell if he's actually filed the thing

i relish chuck johnson's impending legal annihilation

man if they take down the gotnews empire they could pay off the hulk

i cant believe denton actually sold writers/commenters on using "kinja" as a noun to describe content - or worse, that they just started doing it themselves

fuck chuck johnson though

i relish chuck johnson's impending legal annihilation

― appropriation and whatnot (stevie), Thursday, June 18, 2015 4:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

http://adamsteinbaugh.com/2015/06/18/chuck-johnson-files-libel-lawsuit-in-missouri-for-some-reason/

Miley Cyrus Makes Out With and Possibly Fingers Victoria's Secret Model

i clicked

what's wrong with that headline? miley cyrus made out with a victoria's secret model and possibly fingered her. it states what happens in the video.

i think the possible fingering doesn't happen in the video, it happens in you

what's wrong with that headline is that it seems a completely insane and repugnant thing to report as news

why

you're through the looking glass, jordan, you know that?

what does it feel like over there?

a major celebrity engaging in a public sex act -- even if jokingly -- should not be reported on a celebrity news website?

there's nothing in that headline that suggests that it was public, and if there wasn't a "sex act" involved, the story is "Citizen Kisses Citizen."

“A lot of our traffic last year came from stories that we weren’t ultimately proud of,” Mr. Denton said.

That would be a pretty weird headline sic

otoh I appreciate J0rdan's article about Affleck's new home, good commentary on both the celebrity media's obsession w/star's lives combined with some old-fashioned goofing

Then Miley sticks her hand in Maxwell’s pants, which is blurred out in the TMZ video for the appearance of standards.

there's nothing in that headline that suggests that it was public, and if there wasn't a "sex act" involved, the story is "Citizen Kisses Citizen."

― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Thursday, July 2, 2015 6:13 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

miley cyrus is not a citizen

she is a citizen of these united states of america, sir

something like that would've been covered on gawker in much the same way throughout gawker's existence so i'm guessing people are now just looking at gawker/this thread to make themselves mad

that said, that 'obama performs blackness' thinkpiece was one of the hackiest things i've read in a while

Why are you ppl holding gawker to the quality standards of like the Wall Street journal or some shit???

I assume people just like to give Jordan shit

sure, i guess.

but why does he bother defending the shit site he's a part of, is the question? they have ridiculously low standards, they routinely violate people's privacy in the name of bullshit "news" that is of no value to anyone, and yet jordan and others seem to think they're doing god's work instead of being rightfully embarrassed at how they make a living (if indeed they make a living).