A Note From Your Editor
Gawker Media has filed for bankruptcy, as you read on Gawker earlier today. What does that mean? For you, the reader, it means very little: We will continue to operate as usual through the Chapter 11 process. There will continue to be new stories on this website by all of your favorite Gawker writers and also Hamilton…
“If the newspaper industry wants to give up hundreds of years of passion and history and make…”
“If the newspaper industry wants to give up hundreds of years of passion and history and make themselves slaves to some 20-something in Silicon Valley who did the latest hot social network, well, that’s up to them. We choose not to.”
– Nick Denton via NYT.
Blaspheming Blaspheming BuzzFeed
Ehhhhh. I’m not really sure about this article. So it is… an attempt to identify BuzzFeed that ends up calling it unidentifiable while criticizing others who criticize people who criticize BuzzFeed? This may be a little too deep media, even for me, b…
I’m not sure why we’re supposed to be impressed with Gawker’s ability to make…
I’m not sure why we’re supposed to be impressed with Gawker’s ability to make fools of a stupid brand campaign by a stupid brand on Twitter. That sort of thing is easy. What’s depressing is that they could have put their vaunted prank resources towards propagating some message that was stupid but funny and instead built a bot to tweet out the text of the white supremacy 101 textbook.
Haha… Hitler. That’s scraping the bottom of even the stupid comedy barrel.