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

it's so obvious it hardly bears posting but i haven't seen anyone mention it so here goes:
one of the truly fucked up elements of this entire kerfuffle is that Ge1thn3r (just being polite) is now completely and inextricably linked (based on the testimony of one pretty damaged guy), as somebody who hires dudes to fuck them (not that there's anything WRONG with that,etc). it was in the NYT for crissakes. if they had NOT taken the piece down it's arguably likely he'd be getting less long-term scrutiny but as it stands, this story is going to be taught in journalism classes. c-suite exec or not, what an immense load of bad karma to get dropped on your head.

many of the articles referring to the gawker post (including the NYT iirc) do not make reference to geithner by name. tho obv anyone with any googling skills can find it

oh you mean in objection to running the post. yeah i mean, as has been said by many, including denton, this is the kind of story gawker has run in the past. i don't see why an employee would resign because of that

― usic ally (k3vin k.), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:30 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno i'm curious how many people think the post was a legit new low or just something that caught fire more than other equally bad gawker posts. because i saw it pretty soon after it went up, only having seen maybe one annoyed tweet about it, and as i scrolled down the page it immediately dawned on me how awful it was on several different levels. and only then did i scroll up and look at the byline and my heart sank because i knew shit was not gonna be pretty for the person that wrote it.

same :/

The guy who's already fired suggests that it'll be a notice period before we hear of any others?

think this is a different scenario

i mean breaching a nonexistent wall and wounding their writers egos is one thing, throwing a writer under the bus cuz of superiors fuckups ultimately would really be self destructive

man i can't believe ppl repping for fucking vice and linking to present day wonkette that's amazing

all boats rise when you take a giant shit in the water

I join Cory in liking Wonkette because the tone's funny - I mean, none of this stuff is exactly a balanced breakfast, you know?

(re: "dick wet with poo")

I read the aforementioned phrase and was like, is there some contest going on right now for who can make the most edgy for lols homophobic move in new media right now or something?

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 04:29 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's pretty clearly satire of the gay panic angle in the original story?

oh my god the new wonkette writing style is execrable

i mean it's superficially yung internet slang but it's trying way too hard to be zany, it's unreadable

It's pretty clearly satire of the gay panic angle in the original story?

is it though

the beverage hunk @pareene
the multimillionaire CEO publicly and self-righteously shitting on a subordinate is indeed a good explainer

Nick Denton @nicknotned
Confused about the culture clash at Gawker? Here's an explainer.
http://gawker.com/look-i-know-its-hard-to-write-an-attention-grabbing-he-1677175208

the system works

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--llpokM35--/zivlw7fk12k1bum5udsu.jpg

Had to happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Pp2mZg190

lmao

Leah Finnegan ‏@leahfinnegan 22h22 hours ago
nick just asked the entire staff if they thought "the post" was good... then @pareene asked everyone they thought kinja worked

btw joining in the recommendation to read her timeline from the meeting yesterday prob the most interesting and illuminating thing thats come out of all of this so far

u guys last night I dreamed S@rge spent Christmas with my family , i think he's gonna be ok O_o

he's a white teen, he'll be fine

Leah Finnegan ‏@leahfinnegan 22h22 hours ago
nick just hit his head on a lamp

i dunno how lamp got into that meeting.

Send Lamp in there to clean house.

I don't recall her twitter being "recommended" itt so much as mocked for maintaining such high levels of faux naivety, snark, and unearned self righteousness.

i.e. Gawker in a nutshell

But what would a poster of quality and substance like lagoon find commendable and "illuminating" in that?

who the heck is "boxall"

u guys last night I dreamed S@rge spent Christmas with my family , i think he's gonna be ok O_o

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:08 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

it explained what was happening in the editorial meeting. metaphorically you might say it 'illuminated' what happened in the meeting.

i know weird right

xp except when dentdog's head hit the lamp, slightly diminishing the room's light level for a moment

i think being adopted by the vegemite family could help an at-risk youth like j0rd

lol

how is everyone ignoring ned's tomo news video

Not their best work tbh.

i hope max changes his fbook photo

Still hurt that I called you out on the fact that your chill cuddly stoner teen facade is slipping huh?

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:32 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

think i wld rather die than listen to someone talk in that tone of voice for 30 seconds

u on wrong thread

ha what happened that was weird

meant to c&p this

how is everyone ignoring ned's tomo news video

― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:31 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lagoon clearly obsessed w/ jjusten

i dont understand why he wont just be nice to me?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKii97LWwAAfJwz.png

lol wut

Is that real? hahaha

it's sad, they were editors

http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/gawker-conde-nast-outing/55a90f5d02a760fb1b000302

this gawker writer is the most generic looking white guy ever

That pic of Rich is super sad

rip max, tommy craggs

i have a shirt that says "al jardine keeps it clean" in the same font