Gawker isn’t innocent in this, nor is it Satan incarnate. And then moves away and drops a bomb on the neighborhood. It’d be like you crashing into your neighbor’s car not once but two or three times, and in response, your neighbor, instead of lobbing some valid complaints and filing an insurance claim, burns down your house and runs over your dog. It also has an array of blind spots and problematic practices, some of which Thiel and others have every right to object to, but every media company makes mistakes, sometimes big ones.īut the punishment Thiel clearly has in mind - the scorched-earth destruction of the entire company - in no way fits the crime he thinks it has committed. That said, Gawker funds and publishes a lot of really good, smart writing and worthy, tough-minded journalism as well, and it has done so since it snarked its way onto the media scene in the early aughts. So I’m not here to tell you Gawker founder Nick Denton is an innocent lamb being led to the slaughter. And there have been a number of other pieces Gawker and its affiliated sites have published that I have found deeply troubling or misguided over the years. That non-story embodied everything journalism should avoid, not embrace, in my opinion. Last year, like almost every other media person on the planet, I vociferously condemned one story in particular that I won’t rehash here because the rationale that allowed it to be published in the first place still nauseates me. Let’s get one thing clear: I have no particular love for Gawker. But rampaging magnates like Thiel are an even bigger threat to democracy itself. He is a threat to many things the majority of Americans hold dear, if the polls are to believed. We all should be.Ĭhances are Trump won’t win in November. But right now, I’m more afraid of Thiel and his ilk. Today’s the day Donald Trump apparently clinched the number of delegates he’ll need to be the Republican nominee.
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