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

lol nobody apologises in July 2015 u just sound ridiculous now

at best, now I mean at best, somebody with more class/sense than I will remove the relevant posts and then (as I understand it) I get to have a tantrum.

darraghmac you joked that you'd been apologizing to "them" instead of "they" and I riffed further on that joke, it actually had zero to do w/the thread otherwise and was an in-context joek, do keep up. perhaps if I'd've all-capsed THEM or something but one has one's pride

ouch,punsplained

http://www.betterlivingthroughbeowulf.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Them.jpg

c-suite

http://bitterempire.com/on-social-media-culture-and-the-hellscape-of-writing-in-the-era-of-new-media/

saw that linked on facebook, hard to argue with

will gawker editorial be resigning en mass in the morning y/n? when you've beat the streets and put in all the hard work finding reliable sources to out someone, having the philistines upstairs shove him back in the closet the next day is a v. serious breach of the sacred firewall between editorial and biz. and if you lose yr journalistic integrity, well, what have you got left really

I don't think there are enough PR and marketing firms hiring to absorb Gawker editorial, so probably not.

http://adamweinstein.tumblr.com/post/124342415120/goodbye-to-all-that-gawking

this made it sound like the low number of abrupt public firings at gawker is due to them usually giving people the chance to quietly make other arrangements and slowly slip out the door, so i'm guessing we won't really know whose future at gawker was effected by this until some time has passed and it's easy to put 2 and 2 together

Apart from anything else, Gawker probably considers ex-Gawker employees sufficiently notable to eviscerate, which might keep the number of tell-alls down.

if this article was published and pulled from any other site, though, Gawker would have run 3 posts in the past few days digging into the author's personal life, possibly with info gleaned from ilx posts

Well the career prospects of any of the key players here aren't exactly likely to have improved in the last three or four days.

xp nose's post sums up my biggest problem with Gawker: using progressive politics as a moral smokescreen for trash journalism. The approach isn't "we believe in social justice and these are the tools we're using". It's "we're a gossip site and we need excuses to gossip". At least the paparazzi don't pontificate about holding the elites to account. I remember Jordan justifying posting some nasty rumours about Wayne Coyne's divorce on Gawker because Coyne had just offended people over the headdress thing. One has nothing to do with the other. It was just an excuse.

kinda disappointed in my man lag∞n -- in whom i place a fair bit of trust media-criticism-wise -- focusing on the definitions of blackmail and extortion, which are, after all, essentially beside the point. as is par33ne's series of tweets arguing that it wasn't done for pageviews because happy fluffy stories are what earn clicks

do u think it should have been posted?

― mookieproof, Friday, July 17, 2015 8:12 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha i was just distracted by greenwalds extremely lawyerly habit of throwing whatever extremely stupid shit at the wall just to see what sticks, which boxall joined in on because... lol lawyer

imo i suspect theres an argument to be made that this story is newsworthy because it falls under the commonly reported category of "crime", which is not to say that i personally wouldve reported this story, but i prob wouldnt have the stomach to report a lot of stories that are totally normal and universally morally defensible, also i am not a reporter so who even knows what that feels like

in answer to yr question i guess im like not totally sure but expressed as a percentage id say im at 90% this story shd not have been published, i have some sympathy for the whole exposing the seedy playground of the rich and powerful, but its hard to ignore how nasty and petty the whole thing is particularly the outing

cldnt believe this thing broke right as i was gonna be offline for an entire weekend lol

i will say i find the universal piling on gawker in general to be pretty incurious and lacking in insight and perspective

Welp.

http://gawker.com/tommy-craggs-and-max-read-are-resigning-from-gawker-1719002144

dang

https://instagram.com/p/5XOLrWPtWm/

props to courage of convictions i guess!

zounds

xps but which boxall joined in on because... lol lawyer The substance of your disagreements with me itt never amounted to anything more than this FYI, you could have saved us both the time

fuck off

wait they seriously considered firing Biddle?

wait is that a human being bragging abut being a good tipper on instagram?
is this what the founding fathers of the golden age of the internet?

last act w gawkers credit card

bragging about being a good tipper on denton's dime, i assume

think he's bragging about using company funds for his last meal

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10awogKEQ_QLrkstfp30RKeBRTij4TI-PWMXkEDjD9O4/preview?sle=true

hope prosecco was on the bill

i didn't even finish my thought.
too hot.

well hey, whatever.

think he's bragging about using company funds for his last meal

scourge of CFOs everywhere

shdve tipped 100% tho

http://mythologian.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ouroboros-dragon-serpent-snake-symbol.jpg

i don't think it would ever even occur to me that webzines or webpapers had "ethics" or "standards". no offense to max though! he's a nice fella. and good luck to him.

This gif from the comments is otm

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--PA58yasX--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/1349112509034279462.gif

more gawker than gawker
more gawker than gawker

did max's email about The Post Itself that he sent out on Saturday ever leak?

now kinda wish denton had given it to them like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYkZd_UwWUI

maybe they can team up with julian assange. or nikki finke.

xpost the post so nice you made it twice

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honestly flattered you remembered a reference i made three days ago, whiney

That Trotter piece is worth reading.

honestly flattered you remembered a reference i made three days ago, whiney

― da croupier, Monday, July 20, 2015 12:30 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

every ilx generation gets the pussy buffet it deserves

"Editorial independence" is as vacuous a concept as "academic freedom"

oh i'm not that tasty, whiney

If any of you are worried, please don’t be. This is a brief storm that Nick’s shortsightedness has extended. By the end of next week it will be a vague memory.

LOL

http://nick.kinja.com/to-all-of-edit-at-gawker-media-1719034987