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

Probably smooth and weirdly oily and mostly hairless except for a long shank of blond pubes hanging from the back, with a tiny Hulkamania bandana tied neatly just below the shaft.

The weird disconnect is that they say 1) If a person becomes famous through just doing their job, then journalists are allowed to fuck up their lives for no reason, but 2) whenever they're criticized for acting like assholes, they say 'I was just doing my job'. Well, yeah, and in the course of doing your job, you became an asshole, so naturally we treat you like that. Many journalists weirdly think that the public should admire them, even though it's their stated purpose to fuck up the life of any member of the public with the bad fortune to be extraordinary good at their jobs.

At times I feel good that journalism is dying.

The very general proposition of journalism is this: The public has a right to know true things that are important to the public. It is the job of journalists to supply the public with these true things.

"right to know" is a hilarious line of bullshit that Nolan uses to do whatever he thinks is important to the public. If you are somehow a journalist, then of course you will know what is important "to the public."

The arguments about Ferrante and Hogan really get tangled up in a messy Venn diagram of "important to the publuc interest," "legal," "ethical" and "dick move" that makes all conversation about them very annoying very fast

*public

*pubic

how does Hamilton Nolan have a job?

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/chobani-sucks-1787493904

He does harp on a bit about it, but I think he's right. I switched to Fage.

http://gawker.com/tag/chobani

that whole gawker philosophy seems so high school journalism class to me, like it doesn't even acknowledge that the ethics of reporting can sometimes be more complicated than "always tell the truth." Coates says it a lot better than i ever could in his last couple paragraphs of course.

that's kind of my take, I never quite get it but the ideal seems to be that journalism is an end in itself. seems like it would follow from the inner ring of the enterprise always being writing facing inward toward journalism and journalists

coming from software development where a significant number of people are more invested in programming the best rather than solving other problems via programming, it isn't unnatural

It's definitely not unnatural. It's just, since so much of this discussion happens in the media, the medias self obsession is much more public. But they're narcissistic assholes, and should be treated as such.

can't stop won't stop

http://gizmodo.com/peter-thiel-s-lawyer-isn-t-stopping-his-war-on-journali-1787182743

jesus

hateful

don't see the problem, these are the evil scum who made that lady sad

Shouldn't most of that shit just get thrown out of court almost immediately?

the point is the bleeding not the winning

http://www.wsj.com/articles/gawker-seeks-probe-of-thiels-relationship-with-hogans-lawyer-1476221169

smdh

So... where do ppl read the news written in not in a, uh, serious voice, nowadays?

also: http://notgawker.kinja.com/

just fyi i am at a cafe and a high school student is talking with his mom about school. he has written two pages of a four page paper on gawker.

gawker was for the children, never forget

it would have been so sweet to have gawker during this election cycle

There's Cryptogawker via Deadspin/The Concourse.

yeah there's def basically "Gawker" stuff scattered around the whole network, also sometimes on gizmodo or jezebel but it's obviously more of a hassle

this election pretty much is Gawker in real time

Someone was collecting the splattering of Gawker-esque content here, but it looks like they stopped

http://notgawker.kinja.com/

yeah seriously tons of print journalists congratulating themselves on print journalism this election and i'm yeah, the good website got sued out of existence, so of course newspapers are dominating.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cvgdn9IWYAAToet.jpg

accurate

What's In_?

intercept

buzzfeed is only neutral if you think market capitalism is benign

fuck buzzfeed imo

I like how The Intercept is "Lawful" presumably because Greenwald has a JD, I assume

I hate that chart actually, the criteria are nonexistent, it's just logos and feelings and it really just doesn't show the proper respect for Gygaxian values at all

lots of lawyers at all those places, pretending to be just as lawful

I mean "Lawful Neutral" on that chart should just be VoA. "Lawful Good" could be NPR. "Lawful Evil" - ehh, The Hill?

The Intercept is Chaotic Neutral if it even rates. "Red baiting is bad, even in 2016, when it doesn't even make sense! But you know who the real Russian sympathizer is? Hillary Clinton!" That's not what a Paladin sounds like.

Seriously every time I look at that I hate it more. It's so lazy and unconsidered

Ha that meme crap is funny, until types gotta show how 'well actually, breitborts would fall into lawful asshole cat,' because legal realism or something. Or that greenwald isn't lawful, he's quite crypto anarchist.

thats what i like about it (chaotic neutral voice)

What I meant by that is that what is funny about the meme is not the accuracy of the categorization, it's that there is a generation/demo group that processes/recognizes reality based on any TSR matrix.

HuffPo/BusinessInsider/Buzzfeed need their own clickbait row. All evil, though.

there is a generation/demo group that processes/recognizes reality based on any TSR matrix.

YEAH WE RUN SHIT NOW, SO WHAT? oh god what has happened the mind flayers this was all a cantrip by the elder mind

cant spell lawful without awful // cant spell chaotic without HAAAOOOOOOOOOO

@daveweigel
Peter Thiel, verbatim: "If you're a single-digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan, you have no effective access to our legal system."

The second most glaring aspect of that quote is...how has Hulk Hogan mismanaged his money so badly that he's only a single-digit millionaire?

lol Tombot A+

Like, the Iron Sheik is probably a single-digit millionaire and he never starred in a movie with Christopher Lloyd and Shelley Duvall.