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Gagamaru said:
i'm sure they'll find work with daily mail online. they live on scummy made up stories.
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Do they seriously think they're going to have anything remotely like the freedom they had at Gawker to engage in any sociopathic whim they care to?
 
kcbbq said:
Not looking at what "the outside" sees is what got gawker into these messes. Craggs has shown himself to be a total douchebag to the outside.
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Just to be clear, I'm not defining "the outside" as people outside of Gawker, I mean outside of their north-east media circlejerk. They don't care about being employed by anyone outside of that circle so their opinions don't really matter. There's a post on Gawker right now called something like "Tommy Craggs is my friend" - go read the comments section and it's just page after page of writers and editors, some employed at Gawker, others not, just fawning over the dude. He'll land safely, assuming he hasn't already.
 
Yellow Yam Scam said:
Just to be clear, I'm not defining "the outside" as people outside of Gawker, I mean outside of their north-east media circlejerk. They don't care about being employed by anyone outside of that circle so their opinions don't really matter. There's a post on Gawker right now called something like "Tommy Craggs is my friend" - go read the comments section and it's just page after page of writers and editors, some employed at Gawker, others not, just fawning over the dude. He'll land safely, assuming he hasn't already.
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I'm sure there is quite the circle jerk going on there.
 
Yellow Yam Scam said:
He'll land safely, assuming he hasn't already.
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You're probably right about that, and even that this douche had a parachute planned already.

But where?

Anywhere that takes this guy should be nuked to the ground, and their advertisers destroyed. I hope whoever hires him is willing to take catastrophic damage, because a lot of people are motivated to deliver it and capable of doing it, too.
 
AnOminous said:
You're probably right about that, and even that this douche had a parachute planned already.

But where?

Anywhere that takes this guy should be nuked to the ground, and their advertisers destroyed. I hope whoever hires him is willing to take catastrophic damage, because a lot of people are motivated to deliver it and capable of doing it, too.
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The autism squad loves sending email to advertisers, and advertisers listen. Adland has been using gawker as an example of how to make yourself radioactive.
 
kcbbq said:
The autism squad loves sending email to advertisers, and advertisers listen. Adland has been using gawker as an example of how to make yourself radioactive.
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This is what I mean. And with these two amazing sociopaths, it isn't all that they have to fear.

Take these guys on-board, and you're going to have a dedicated cadre of autists immediately attacking everyone who advertises on the site. That's a given.

That's a given that clickbait sites of a certain sort already expect, and they plug it into their calculations of whether it's profitable or not to take a certain asshat on board.

However, in this case, you also have incredibly bad judgment that can cost you even more, and the idea that the asshat you hired will quit the moment you ask them to do something that offends their bizarre idea of anti-ethics, where not being the literal Ted Bundy of "journalism" will cause them to jump ship at a critical time in your publication's future.

Anyone who hires these guys deserves them.
 
Looks like another advertiser might have "paused" their ads. BlueApron. Denton is trying to make the right noises, but leaked emails making it look like he's being, umm, insincere.

He seems panicked over how this affects the Hogan lawsuit.
 
So it seems as though Gawker is begging for yet another lawsuit; they leaked Donald Trump's personal phone number. Even better, the article was written by Sam "Bring Back Bullying" Biddle.

Regardless of your feelings about Donald Trump, I think we can all agree that leaking a phone number like this is what a tabloid would do, not a respectable news source. Honestly, it just seems like at this point Gawker is trying to wreak as much havoc as they can before they're dragged kicking and screaming down the hole.

I cannot wait to see what happens when the Hulkster sues Gawker into oblivion, it's going to be glorious. Hopefully he and Trump will tag team it.

Also, I'm aware that Trump himself gave out Lindsey Graham's number, but the phrase "two wrongs don't make a right" does mean something.
 
Trump's response was pretty epic, even if he is a silly caricature of a political candidate.

He's using it as advertising, the number plays a campaign ad. He might be a clown, but he's savvy as hell. I guess that's how he can manage to become a billionaire multiple times after going broke.
 
kcbbq said:
Trump's response was pretty epic, even if he is a silly caricature of a political candidate.

He's using it as advertising, the number plays a campaign ad. He might be a clown, but he's savvy as hell. I guess that's how he can manage to become a billionaire multiple times after going broke.
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The most frustrating thing about him is how good he is at rolling with the punches. There's no insult that this dude can't turn around into a positive.
 
One common theme I see in most Gawker stories is how they all inevitably end up being about the writer himself. They're all incredibly narcisstic cunts that think they're borderline famous just because they live in New York and line up to suck Nick Denton's dick every day.

Take their sports site (Deadspin), for example. Many of their stories start out with typical sports stuff but by the end of the text it devolves into the writer whining about the long lines at his local Chipotle.
 
AnOminous said:
Trump did exactly the same to Lindsey Graham just days ago.
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As I said in the spoiler, though, two wrongs don't make a right.

I don't really give a shit about Donald Trump, it's more about how Gawker does stuff like this all the time; I mean, they outed a gay man just a few weeks ago and are already trying to stir up more controversy. I wouldn't even mind as much if they went full tabloid, but they love to pretend to be sophisticated, professional journalists when they're the farthest thing from it.

AnOminous said:
There's no law against doxing, in most cases and for most dox.
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Oh well, at least we still have Hulk Hogan's lawsuit.
 
That Guy said:
Take their sports site (Deadspin), for example. Many of their stories start out with typical sports stuff but by the end of the text it devolves into the writer whining about the long lines at his local Chipotle.
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This is the terminal stage of the downward spiral that started when narcissistic second rate hacks decided they were all Hunter S. Thompson.

Cosmos said:
As I said in the spoiler, though, two wrongs don't make a right.
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If I had his phone number, I'd have leaked it myself.
 
The autism, it hurts. (Taken from the comments section of the Donald Trump phone number story)

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