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

xxp shame is the raison d'être of this kind of exposé so that would be self-defeating unfortunately

Eh, an exec at Condé cheating on his spouse/paying for sex is probably going to be tabloid news, no matter how much we bitch and moan about which site broke the story, because that company is all about selling a version of posh heteronormativity. Vogue and Vanity Fair only like gayness when it's a rich designer doing it, or it's historic and to do with boho aristocrats.

Something similar happened here wherein the wife of a rather prominent Condé Nasty (a publisher herself) was having an affair with a Labour minister, asking him for special work-permit favours for a nanny etc, and it was scandal-sheet fodder for MONTHS.

I think you can decipher key differences between the two stories if you think about it, suzy

Thanks for implying I don't think about things, bro. Now bore off.

actually it's about ethics in outing journalism

^ glib but i'm curious, it seems most here would be much less incensed if it was an anti-gay/homophobic public figure who had been outed. but here the guy's only crime seems to be that he's bought wholesale into the riches afforded by capitalism

what's the spectrum?

kinda feels like an easy one to parse, to me - if a person is actively persecuting lgbtq people, working to pass legislation denying them rights etc, outing them is potentially justifiable, especially since outing them will most likely stop them from being successful in denying other people rights.

otherwise, no.

maybe suzy is right but i somehow doubt this has anything to do with exposing CN for hypocrisy, posh heteronormativity or no. afaict its just a juicy story about a rich guy whose last name is kinda famous & the fact he worked for CN just made it juicier. gawker's always been pugnacious with other media companies and loves to think of itself as david taking down goliaths. but it's reaching to suggest there's a righteous motive or justification here. i was going to say that gawker being instrumental is this dudes blackmail is the most disappointing but thats probably on me for being naive.

The blackmail thing is what pushes this over into repugnant imo as well.

also as far as i'm concerned this is not about outing the guy for being gay, it's about outing him for hiring a male escort. there's a difference, imho, and tbh this is as much about gawker's shitty, salacious attitude about sex work as anything.

yeah that's gross too

there's just so many layers of "wow, you guys are heartless assholes- great use of your time on earth!" about this

You know who never pulls bullshit like this? Jalopnik.

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Stop saying he's cheating on his wife. They could be open, poly, or have an arrangement where he's allowed to fuck dudes while on vacation. Who are Jordan and Max, as 2 ivy league white bros, to say what he is doing is wrong? They are now known forever as 2 men into outing fags.

otm

"Ivy League"?

Sorry, that's not the right thing to fixate on.

Haha I guess I used that term wrong though. Ignore that part!

all the reasonable articles make me forget it's a tabloid publishing salacious details. kind of makes me feel like the latter is there to make $$ and spurn angry conversation by ppl who are there for the articles

Would contribute to a kickstarter to raise $5k for Jordan to research this story further in a more hands-on setting

now there's an angle

can't wait until I publish a book and Gawker strikes with their news jet

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i wonder if the entire tenor of the conversation would have changed if j0rdo led with the fact that dude is literally the guy that makes the tough financial decisions about what to do with the profits from r/coontown

probably didn't have a screenshot of a text saying that

you go with the screenshots of texts you have, not the screenshots of texts you'd like

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unless she is literally 15 years old, you are a misogynist

the people that are aware of conde nast's ownership of reddit and the role that may've played in gawker pursuing this story...don't seem to think any more highly of the post than anyone else

this story should obviously not have been published

feeling like 50% of the people decrying it are glad gawker published another gross thing so they can act righteous about it tho, which is also gross

seemingly half of gawker's mentions on twitter right now are gamergate guys crowing "we've been saying gawker is bad news for ALMOST A YEAR, here's how you can make them lose ad money my liberal social justice friends!"

super glad we're holding conde nast, that sycophantic arbiter of family values, to account

holding the feet of the powerful to the fire

i can't tell who's being sarcastic anymore

anyway running this story was p despicable

gamergaters can tell you why gawker is bad, but they still need a full hour. not fifteen minutes.

Yeah what I find super weird is that I don't think this would have been published by even the sleaziest tabloid not because of the moral issues but because who cares about this guy? were they really expecting readers to be grateful to learn about the sexual improprieties of a random corporate dude related to one of the duller members of the Obama administration?

story would have been newsworthy if hooker could tell us if Geithner was lizard person or not

I mean, I don't support outing anyone, obv, but I really hate the "defense" that this dude was just some rando

He's the CFO at Conde Nast! He used to be an executive VP at Time! He's a New York media power player, ostensibly what Gawker's original beat was...

haha an EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT!!!

a New York media power player is gay

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gawker offices yesterday

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03080/Ben-Bradlee_3080856b.jpg

everybody involved just keepin' mum & movin' onto the next thing it seems, saving up their "lol, internet outrage!" about their reprehensible bullshit for Monday when people still think it was a profoundly shitty thing to do

"power player" uh huh

one might say he is near the "top" of the media game

xps oddly enough that pic was probably taken when facilitating blackmail to the end of outing an exec with a media company would have been accepted as news

he's still not a public figure, and honestly who cares? if this story just part of a vendetta against conde nast then how does that make it more justifiable & not less

xp

gawker's original beat was celebrities' real time locations in manhattan iirc

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