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

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/gawker-tells-judge-fairpay-twitter-774737

ew gawker's pervasive grossness makes their regular bursts of sanctimony feel particularly disingenuous

Not all hashtags are cool with Gawker. The media company wants a single general tweet about the lawsuit and if a hashtag is to be used, Gawker wants it to be #gawkerinternlawsuit. As for the no-go's, Gawker's lawyer Mark Batten writes, "The hashtags #fairpay and #livingwage are inflammatory, and the Court’s approval of those would suggest that the Court has a view about the merits of this lawsuit. And the use of #nickdenton is also inappropriate; Mr. Denton is not identified with this case, and his personal conduct is not at issue in the matter."

woooowwwwwwwwww

#gawkerinternlawsuit #fairpay #livingwage #nickdenton

Gawker wants the plaintiffs to be careful on Reddit, not connecting this lawsuit with "unrelated controversies and political causes." Denton's company gives some examples. The plaintiffs shouldn't attempt to leverage the GamerGate controversy by posting in the subreddit "KotakuInAction," which Gawker says has expanded into general criticism of its gaming site. "Plaintiffs apparently would like notice of the lawsuit to be added to this 'munitions pile,' but there is no justification for doing so," states Gawker's letter. "The same is true of Plaintiffs’ request to post information about this lawsuit in the 'OccupyWallStreet,' 'LostGeneration,' and 'Progressive' subreddits."

tbf I understand them asking plaintiffs not to further sic the dogs of gamergate on them

or the dogs of the 'progressive' subreddit?

xps to mordy's sanctimony comment: exactly, they produce good work sometimes, but the idea that they are arbiters of ethics/morality/etc. is hysterical. (the same is true of denton's sworn enemy vice, this isn't just a gawker problem)

tbh if they were honest they'd just bring back shit like gawker stalker and own the sleaze but that'll prob never happen

tbf to vice they are pretty nihilistic (i feel defensive for them bc a lot of their foreign coverage has been really engaging over the last couple years)

we get the media outlets we deserve, unfortunately

xp the vice HBO series is great - the chiraq and north korea episodes from season 1 stand out in particular

gawker manages to be awfully sleazy without gawker stalker

i don't really get the complaint of being "sanctimonious." should journalists not call out people on sleazy shit if their employers do the same shit? i weakly prefer the sanctimoniousness of gawker to the seedy relativism of vice

idk i don't feel like journalism should be about call-outs, that's more like arnold diaz "shame shame shame" journalism.

theres also the question of the extent to which journalists or commentators shd be held accountable for the corporate sins of their employers........

obv if someone is doing exemplary work, even for an otherwise odious media org, i'll read + appreciate them

generous of you

i love to give back

wow i can really feel the love rn

xpost

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http://caity.kinja.com
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more 4u mordy

http://sambiddle.kinja.com

Looks like my classic grim reapah thread will never die. I was young, stupid, and drugged out of my mind when I wrote that thing - whaddayawantfromme.

so youre saying burt stanton was your drugged out alter ego

It was me on drugs making an ass out of myself. I just wanted to make people laugh, even if it was at my own expense.

a thing of beauty is a joy forever

welcome back burt

we get the media outlets we deserve, unfortunately

― mh, Friday, 20 February 2015 22:27 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno, think i deserve better i'm a pretty cool guy

xp Thanks, crunch. This feels really weird because I'm nothing like burt_stanton these days, so I really don't know what I'm doing here now. hipsters. trust funds. druggy surrealism. my gigantic dick that breaks tables when i slap it down on them (I was actually hired for a couple of months in a recycling facility). Guess you can't outrun consequences. Whelp, looks like I'll be taking my leave then.

rip

the grim reaper got him in the end

sorry, I meant "grim reapah"

tbf i'll take burt over gabbneb when it comes to reunion tours

cool radio, bro

there are things i quite like on gawker like that Hamilton Nolan fella

also ev'thing relating to celebrities and TV shows i do not know

Are you new to the Gawker thing? The worst of humanity, monetized.

thatd be a good masthead

I think either the Wall St Journal or the Congressional Quarterly uses that

no wait, the Clinton Foundation

wait burt_stanton changed his name again? wtf

don't you live in greenpoint where's it's like 90% polish people and upwardly mobile white twentysomethings pretending to be broke? who are you scared of there?
― imo phillips (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, February 21, 2009 11:34 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you scared of getting a seitan taco from the taco truck?

― imo phillips (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, February 21, 2009 11:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

best thread ever

― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Friday, February 20, 2015 4:37 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

Whiney ain't wrong about Greenpoint tho

http://d1i6vahw24eb07.cloudfront.net/s115864q.png

thatd be a good masthead

― johnny crunch, Friday, February 20, 2015 8:39 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Teren Delvon Jones might have a claim

Wait, did the Hulk die having sex or something?

big, green, dead

Looks like my classic grim reapah thread will never die. I was young, stupid, and drugged out of my mind when I wrote that thing - whaddayawantfromme.

― CoolRadio, Friday, February 20, 2015 4:31 PM (2 hours ago)

between that thread and the disgusting ass partner one, burt was one of all my all time faves ... you should feel good about yourself

granted Best Buy is also on that list, but still, you should feel good about your contributions to this message boarf

i can't help but be a little curious why a small business owner in the midwest is outraged about an obit published by a young hip but increasingly conservative new media outlet about a sad comedy ca druggy with a tumblr book deal in which there is what seems like a minor concession to past beef. small world i guess?

― hammer smashed nagls (mattresslessness), Friday, February 20, 2015 4:22 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

judging from twitter ppl seem to love this dude ive just never seen this sort of reaction to the death of a producer i guess like this before, obvs not saying they shdnt but kind of curious like why he is so well known/loved when his biggest things seem to be producing a a tv show and having a twitter account that was 100% RTs

Harris Wittels would surely be proud that from his death sprung a thread dedicated to incomprehensible Brooklyn bullshit

obvs the idea that u shdnt mention negative infos in a obit is silly and not reflected in the actual practice of obit writing

he was a super popular podcast guest on some super popular comedy podcasts and he had a way of presenting himself as an underdog that prob caused a lot of people to identify w/ and root for him. xxp