11/22/2023 0 Comments New gawker site![]() ![]() These things can also be true of male owned websites also.Īnd fwiw, Fran is like one of my all time favorite guests of the show and I almost always agree with her somewhat contrarian analysis of movies, I think she’s great and it sucks the site she works at is shut down.īut what the site as a whole represented and published was just…incredibly low brow. Harvey Levin is one of the biggest scumbags in media and runs the bitchiest website in reality. What does that accomplish, “guy doesn’t like movies with RT scores, must be moron”.Īnd it also goes on this assumption that everyone is commenting in the worst faith possible. But explain to me what the purpose of their piece about him was. ![]() It is a female ran website (which I think is a sharper criticism than “it’s only for women and gay people”) but it’s also just…kind of trafficking in nonsense? The Thiel-backed litigation included Hulk Hogan’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Gawker over a video the site posted showing the wrestler having sex with his ex-friend’s wife a jury awarded Hogan $140 million in damages in the case.I just don’t think calling a website bitchy, without even really going into much detail means everyone is being a misogynist. Gives Gawker's Drive- By Peanut Gallery a Promotion, New York Observer. On July 30, the New York Post reports that Bustle laid off the entire staff that day, and that the the relaunch has been postponed indefinitely. In addition, as discussed in chapter 6, staffers (especially site leads and. Just over a year after Goldberg bought the site, his zombie Gawker meets its demise at least temporarily, apparently. (Univision sold those sites, known as Gizmodo Media Group, along with The Onion to a private-equity backed G/O Media.) Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, had been angry about an old Gawker story that reported he is gay. July 30, 2019: Bustle lays off the entire Gawker staff and cancels the relaunch. In 2016, Nick Denton’s Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy and sell six of its websites to Univision Communications for $135 million - excluding - after it lost lawsuits funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. The New York-based company’s portfolio comprises a range of lifestyle brands including Bustle, Nylon, The Zoe Report, Elite Daily, Mic, Inverse, Fatherly and Scary Mommy. We try to have fun.”īDG, founded in 2013, has made a series of roll-up acquisitions of smaller digital media outlets. Gawker abhors the sanctimonious, the indignant, the self-righteous and the needlessly cruel. Before the end of the following week, ’s staff was offered a chance to walk away with severance so that a new, 20 percent nicer Gawker could be built in its stead under. We train our eye on worthy targets with skepticism and ire. On its own site, BDG describes Gawker like this: “We are irreverent, iconoclastic, new, and strange, and we seek to raise questions about the structure of the world around us. “Today’s latest round of layoffs, and the closure of Gawker, came after more than two years of attempting to bargain a first contract with BDG, and on the heels of more recent bargaining dates being outright canceled by the company,” WGAE said in a statement, adding that it will “continue to press for a contract that both protects our workers’ rights and guarantees a severance that acknowledges their labor and the worth they create for their company.”īDG had intended to relaunch in 2019 but Goldberg suspended those plans and laid off the staff he had hired after reported clashes among employees. The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) said it was “appalled by BDG’s decision to lay off nearly 40 of our unit members.” The union noted that it’s the third round of layoffs at BDG over the last six months, which have “effectively led to halving the original unit from 200 workers to just above 100 workers.” It’s a business decision, and one that, reluctantly, must be made.”Ī BDG spokesperson declined to provide further info, including how many employees will be losing their jobs because of the move.Īmong the last stories published on Gawker were “Andrea Riseborough Guilty of Being a Good Actor With Friends Who Appreciate Her” “Robert Zemeckis: I Love Using the Computer to Make Tom Hanks Look Insane” “Why Is Taylor Swift Always Showing Feet?” “The Best and Worst Media TikTok Accounts” and “Surprising No One, George Santos Is a Disney Adult.” ![]() But in this new reality, we have to prioritize our better-monetized sites. In a memo sent to company staffers Wednesday, Goldberg wrote, “Gawker published a lot of brilliant pieces in these nearly two years. This saga is the subject of a new book by the author and ( controversial) media strategist Ryan Holiday, called Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue. I had an absolute blast, and I love you.” “Can’t say enough about how proud I am of the site and all the brilliant people who worked to create it, and what a staggering shame this is. “Well, after an incredible 1.5 years, BDG has decided it is done with Gawker 2.0,” she tweeted. ![]()
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