In Silicon Valley, Gossip, Anger and Revenge
“Silicon Valley likes to keep the media on a tight leash. Tech executives expect obedience, if not reverence, from reporters. They dole out information as grudgingly as possible. Sometimes they simply buy a chunk of a publication, a time-honored method of influencing what is deemed fit to write about.
“Valleywag declined to play the game.
“It was a gossip sheet for the digital age: abrasive, knowing, cynical, self-promoting, sometimes unfair. It dispensed snark by the truckload, printing things that people knew or surmised but were off the table.”
Valleywag’s posts about Peter Thiel raised his ire, and he financed a lawsuit against its parent, Gawker Media.
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