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[giga]

I hate to give them clicks, but maybe this will enlighten some of their readers to see how awful they are. This is a new low: https://archive.is/EUkg0

Many other journalists are calling them out on this:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/621873669472710656
https://twitter.com/mikiebarb/status/621865637774815232
https://twitter.com/irin/status/621857540494749696
https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/621870450314903552
https://twitter.com/julietlapidos/status/621866351771004928
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/621851783808352256
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/621855137439485952
https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/621846667810115584
https://twitter.com/michaelshure/status/621887187093553153
https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/621872181572534272

Watch Gawker's EIC try to defend this: https://twitter.com/max_read

 

[ivysaur12]

why would you do this.

 

[kirblar]

why would you do this.

Because you wear a person suit.

 

[entremet]

Wow

 

[MassiveNights]

Disgusting.

 

[RockTurtle]

that 100 million dollar lawsuit couldn't come sooner

 

[Tucah]

just incredibly terrible stuff. fuck gawker.

 

[Cybit]

This (gawker) is the site that calls reddit homophobic and doxing bad, right?

The irony is astounding.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Gawker is worse than tabloids

 

[norm9]

Trash.

 

[Merc_]

Nothing like helping to support some blackmail.

Well done Gawker.

 

[RockTurtle]

This (gawker) is the site that calls reddit homophobic and doxing bad, right?

The irony is astounding.

i wonder what brand of social progressiveness gawker is claiming moral superiority from this week

 

[Purple Cheeto]

Somebody is about to be an unemployed, homeless escort.

 

[Fenderputty]

Fuck gawker

 

[MMarston]

You know you've fucked up when even the comments section, which I've noticed in the past is usually on Gawker's side, calls you out on this bullshit.

 

[LiK]

This is gross.

 

[Alchemy]

Really? REALLY? WHY?!?

 

[norm9]

Their defense will be theyre not a journalism website.

 

[Keyser Soze]

 

[OctoMan]

Somebody is about to be an unemployed, homeless escort.

The author of the article once Hulk gets done with them.

 

[injurai]

I didn't think Gawker could sink any lower.

 

[Zaph]

NYT reporter responding to Gawker EiC

Really hope there are serious consequences for this. Gawker is punishing and humiliating a guy and his family because he didn't give in to blackmail and abuse his position.

 

[chaobreaker]

i wonder what brand of social progressiveness gawker is claiming moral superiority from this week

Well, there's this.

 

[RockTurtle]

also, to add more to the irony of gawker:

http://adequateman.deadspin.com/how-to-hire-a-sex-worker-1713199455

Well, there's this.

unless the guy was a hypocrite anti-gay public figure, there were a million more tasteful ways to inform the wife without trying to make it a shitshow for hits.

 

[Dryk]

So let me get this straight

- Guy plans to cheats on his wife with gay escort
- Escort blackmails him into unethical conduct
- Guy refuses
- Escort follows through on blackmail threat by sending information to journalists
- Journalists throw it straight up onto the internet

Gawker what the fuck are you thinking?

 

[Sai-kun]

I don't....what the fuck? I read it, waiting for the guy hiring the escort to do something really scummy and it never came

What the fuck? Hope that escort gets revealed and is outta work. Jesus.

 

[zorlaczerohero]

He says he has an iPhone, and it's an iPhone screenshot, so why no iMessage? Everyone I message reverts automatically to iMessage if it can. Just an observation.

 

[MHWilliams]

I hate to give them clicks, but maybe this will enlighten some of their readers to see how awful they are. This is a new low: http://gawker.com/conde-nasts-cfo-tried-to-pay-2-500-for-a-night-with-a-1718364339

Base Gawker has always been a shitshow.

Kotaku and Deadspin still do good work.

Gawker.com will probably be sued for this. Their ethics are woeful at best.

 

[Ghazi]

Yo, what the fuck? That's stupid.

 

[Dr. Malik]

Lmao

 

[newjeruse]

Max Read is a piece of shit. Nothing new there.

 

[Leona Lewis]

Gawker what the fuck are you thinking?

 

[davepoobond]

all i can say is wow

 

[Jarmel]

NYT reporter responding to Gawker EiC

Really hope there are serious consequences for this. Gawker is punishing and humiliating a guy and his family because he didn't give in to blackmail and abuse his position.

If Gawker will always do this then maybe the company shouldn't exist then.

 

[Dryk]

NYT reporter responding to Gawker EiC

Really hope there are serious consequences for this. Gawker is punishing and humiliating a guy and his family because he didn't give in to blackmail and abuse his position.

It's almost like it didn't even occur to them that there are other ways of informing his wife that he tried to cheat on her

Well yeah, this is pretty clearly about money

 

[DirtyManos]

Saw this earlier, what complete absolute fucking garbage.

I read it thinking the guy was going to end up as some incredible dbag who was up to some shady shit, but the guy did nothing. He actually refuses to abuse his family's power in the face of blackmail.

And gawker (with no evidence of any such corrupt actions from the guy) just completely outs him WHILE protecting the escort's identity! The same escort who by their own admission seems unhinged.

WTF

Hope they get sued to oblivion.

 

[funkystudent]

Openly Abetting blackmail? Jesus. I hope hulk hogan brings this shithole down.

(What a weird thing to say)

 

[bodyboarder]

What a piece of shit, gawker that is.

 

[MassiveNights]

I don't ever want to see an article about ethics on any site owned by Gawker ever again even if it is under a different editorial team.

Different branches of the same shitty trunk and it would be the most hypocritical thing, to the point if farce.

 

[Psychoward]

I read the title wrong and figured the CFO was going to do the shitty thing and... nope.

 

[FriedConsole]

I had to see it for myself. Didn't read it all but it is amazingly long and detailed. Thought it was just maybe a casual blurb that wasn't thought out but multiple people had to spend hours on this and nobody said "hey maybe this is not a good idea".

No more Gawker media for me.

 

[Battersea Power Station]

Any lawyers here? I wonder if there are legal charges to string Gawker up on.

 

[Kaiterra]

Heh, I was gonna share this around until I thought of that.

 

[Van Owen]

Just a scummy company from top to bottom. I always found it odd that people like Klepeck and others would choose to work for them, but I guess money talks.

 

[paskowitz]

Don't click on the link. Don't share the link. Don't talk about this unless it is in reference to telling other people other people not to talk about it.

 

[jtb]

Gawker has set the bar so fucking low, and yet they still find new ways to dig.

 

[Zaph]

i wonder what brand of social progressiveness gawker is claiming moral superiority from this week

Article from the same author yesterday:

[Gawker] Vox Quietly Deleted the Slut-Shaming From Your Dad's Taylor Swift Review

Gawker just loves taking the high ground, especially when it's against their direct competition...

 

[UFO]

That's another lawsuit coming.

 

[x3sphere]

Gawker needs to be shut down. Any good articles that come out of their network are not worth the bad.

 

[Meowster]

That is absolutely disgusting.