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

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.

Filed to: SEX 7/16/15 8:26pm

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

That Jezebel 15-year-old does seem to think she's doing something punk rock

― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Friday, July 17, 2015 8:00 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

'c-suite exec' is the new 'elite qb'

For all I know, David Geithner is a huge dick who's mean to his wife and kids, doesn't tip his servers, and sets copies of the Qur'an on fire in the winter to keep warm. None of that matters. I still fail to see why what happened here was newsworthy for any reason other than just outing the man.

It seems like they are deleting Kinja comments critical of the article. It's not across the board, but there had been a tidal wave of critical comments (not trolling) this morning hitting basically all the articles on the front page and many of them are gone.

I have no idea where the line is when it comes to "public figures"

Is Bill Clinton's brother still a trainwreck? Haven't seen anything about him for a while.

xxpost it was valuable as a critique of journalistic standards

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

― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, July 17, 2015 10:05 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rly scraping the "bottom" of the barrel here, I wd expect more "versatility" from u :-/

It seems like they are deleting Kinja comments critical of the article. It's not across the board, but there had been a tidal wave of critical comments (not trolling) this morning hitting basically all the articles on the front page and many of them are gone.

pathetic, really pathetic

i've been in the camp of "I only read gawker for the thoughtful longform pieces" for a while, but if this backlash sticks it might become harder for gawker to retain any of that credibility with either writers or audience

xxp http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/us/politics/clinton-first-brother-is-wary-chatty-and-still-occasionally-attracting-attention.html