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

quick generational check: does EVERYBODY have a picture of their asshole on their phone? asking for a friend

xp smdh at the conclusion of that richjuz piece.

We will continue to risk outrage by telling the truth. We will continue to make editorial decisions that yield self-righteous denouncement. We will continue to publish stories that even our coworkers dislike and disagree with because every human being on earth has his or her own interpretation of what the truth is and what the pursuit of it entails.

Yeah, this seems like a great time to debate the nature of truth. These are exactly the kind of deep philosophical questions that outing a CFO on a gossip site invites. And not at all a pompous way of saying "quit being mean to my friend, everyone."

Loyalty to your friend is great but don't disguise it as a lecture.

He says in a lecturing tone

because every human being on earth has his or her own interpretation of what the truth is and what the pursuit of it entails.

Essentially announcing themselves the winner in the race to the bottom.

http://gamingforevermore.weebly.com/uploads/2/5/8/9/25893592/5410601_orig.jpg

gawker writing on this topic now embarrassing in the way that high school and university valedictorian speeches are embarrassing

The race to the photos of the bottom more like xps

quick generational check: does EVERYBODY have a picture of their asshole on their phone? asking for a friend

― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, July 21, 2015 2:13 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have a bunch of pictures of assholes on my phone. but i really don't know why we took so many selfies at the last ilx fap...

1) all this "wife and family" stuff. lots of people have spouses and families. why does that make a difference one way or another. you can't out of one side of your mouth complain about victorian morality or w/e and out of the other be shouting "think of the children"

it's not victorian morality to think how one's actions might affect others bro, it's simple human decency. "the children" here sub for "consider maybe thinking outside 'ooh I get to say what I want!' for half a fucking second and consider whether there are human consequences." if that' s too victorian for you then I feel p bad for you tbh

^^^^^

Human consequences take a backseat to The Truth, maaaaan.

I think there's a public interest in the fallout from Gawker's reckless reportage. It's a truth I'd personally like to see them pursue, at any rate.

this is such a sad whatever it is. tedious too. i was looking at the webby awards page recently to see if i could find something good to read and Vice wins like every category. they are the great gray lady of the internet.

LOL Gawker just namechecked, in typical stumblebum fashion, by Jon Snow on Channel 4 News.

The White Gawkers

the thing about Vice is that it's really easy to ignore the 90% of their coverage that is dumb/offensive/whatever for the 10% that is fantastic (adjust those %'s as need be but no one gave coverage - complete w/ intimate video - of eg anti-balaka like Vice did).

this is kind of the end game of enjoying a website that has been positioned as a tabloid blog and has always had gossip, from the early "gawker stalker" days to the tmz-lite and jokey tmz-like articles to ones where they break lurid stories. we love the long-form articles on race and sex and politics but they're just one piece of the site's content.

I have no idea what the tabloids and celebrity gossip rags on the supermarket end caps have in them outside of what country music star is cheating or w/e and whether this particular story would have run in those, but the nastier articles in those definitely aren't morally better than this crap. But I'm not picking those up. Maybe shouldn't be picking up gawker.com but it's free and has stuff I like.

LOL Gawker just namechecked, in typical stumblebum fashion, by Jon Snow on Channel 4 News.

I'm assuming in some other context because no way did this make Channel 4 News.

xpost i got made fun of the other time i mentioned this on ilx but since my clicks = money for these entities, i have had a total self-imposed moratorium on clicking any links to gawker, huffpo, slate, buzzfeed and several others for quite some time. I just won't do it bc that click is me "buying their magazine" and fuck all of these sites, starve them to death IMO

(NB I made an exception for the runaways piece on huffpo)

j0hn D is advocating for the same kind of moratorium fwiw

good! where? on social media?

Yes, it was just a story on C4 news, tied together with the Ashley Madison hack.

"Think of the children" was funny and accurate once on the simpsons two decades ago and even then it was probably overrated.

gawker, huffpo, slate, buzzfeed

slate?

"don't trust anyone who doesn't have a picture of their asshole on their phone" is the rallying cry of our age

#ConfederacyofAssholes

They just reposted this piece without comment from February over on Jezebel.

http://gawker.com/brands-are-not-your-friend-1684232182

Someday we're going to be unlocking doors and paying for groceries with scans of our assholes so I guess the only downside of having asshole pics on your phone are potential identity theft.

Wesley Snipes tearing someone's asshole out in Demolition Man 2.

I'm not sure that questioning the sending of reproducible/distributable digital images of yr genitalia is necessarily reducible to a generational gap

none of those words look spelt right btw

*sexy computer voice*
"rectal scan complete. access granted."

I'll say it is.

all brands are inherently psychopathic. A company does not have feelings. It will never love you. It does not love its workers. It likely screws them over. Think about that the next time you tweet at a brand, or defend one online. Treating brands like buddies isn't just embarrassing for all parties—sympathy for a brand is antipathy for all humans. The great friending of the brand undermines the vital skepticism of corporate America and capitalism altogether. It's horrid enough that our laws treat corporations as people—to treat them as personal friends is just rotten.

no no no no Klein no

I agree completely w Mordy's quote

xp

Cosign that brand loyalty is bizarre

pretty sure that Mazda loves me

i'm not sure what this has to do with anything except maybe being a veiled objection to the managing partners

Sufjan, Mazda has always spoken very highly of you

Mazda esp appreciated all the dick pics

This is the weirdest recent example for me, sry for ot https://twitter.com/blobtower/status/610903479398182913 that's justin vernon on apple

I'm starting to think that there are a number of Gawkerers that have been under the impression that they were working for Democracy Now but are just discovering that they were surreptitiously sponsored by Pizza Hut the whole time.

Energizer.

good! where? on social media?

yup

Buzzfeed and Gawker are like garbage landfills that decided to get into the condo development business, but they only build condos on half the landfill and keep the other half a garbage dump.

"I know it smells but look at the view!"

Admittedly, Buzzfeed has some great journalism.

But yeah, they're weird experiments in going "legit" while continuing to seek profit from the junk that launched them. I think the Gawker story caused all the more outrage because Gawker tries so hard to hold itself out as something more substantial than the millennial version of a supermarket tabloid.

definitely. if they were like "look we're trash and we post trash articles" no one would care but they're like "we are intrepid brave journalists" and then not only that but "this is a great example of our intrepid brave journalism!"