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• #Gawker hypocrisy pro#

Outside commentary on the site’s shutdown ranged from thoughtful eulogies to dismissive farewells whose blunt message was essentially good riddance to bad rubbish. Gawker’s demise was predictable, because no prudently-run media company, however large and wealthy, would have been willing to welcome a brand that was at once toxic and lawsuit-prone.Īs Denton put it: “The flagship site, a magnet for most of the lawsuits marshaled by Peter Thiel’s lawyer, has for most media companies become simply too dangerous to own.” Never has Gawker been less entertaining-perhaps understandable under the circumstances, but still not much fun. The pithiest comment was Hudson Hongo’s rotating “fuck that alligator” graphic-to which former editor Choire Sicha, the author of a sardonic tribute to Gawker and other failed journalistic enterprises such as Radar and Talk magazines, tweeted: “I guess in the spirit of gawker I should just say. That conventional wisdom is false.”Ī site that, at its height, posted nearly 100 stories a day, was eking them out in its death throes.Īs evening approached, Gawker posted a collection of valedictory letters from former editors such as Gabriel Snyder, Alex Balk, Jessica Coen, and Elizabeth Spiers. “A lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth,” Scocca acidly lamented, citing a mainstream media meme “that Gawker had this coming, that the site was-to some degree, depending on how sympathetic the writer is trying to pose as being-responsible for its own downfall.

Nearly four years after posted a video excerpt of Terry Bollea (Hogan’s real name) having sex with his best friend’s wife, a disgusted Florida jury awarded Bollea $140.1 million, driving Denton and his company into personal and corporate bankruptcy.

#Gawker hypocrisy pro#

Thiel used celebrity pro wrestler Hulk Hogan’s invasion of privacy lawsuit (and possibly two other lawsuits that are pending against the company) as the vehicle for his vengeance.