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Tom Scocca Quotes
Total quotes: 10
Tom Scocca
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Total quotes: 10
“Gawker.com is out of business because one wealthy person maliciously set out to destroy it, spending millions of dollars in secret, and succeeded. That is the only reason.”
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Gawker
“Rather than fighting the material that he really objected to, Thiel went looking for pretexts. Over time, he came up with them.”
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Gawker, Peter Thiel
“A lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down Gawker.com.”
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Gawker
“The message is that Gawker had this coming, that the site was—to some degree, depending on how sympathetic the writer is trying to pose as being—responsible for its own downfall. By now it is conventional wisdom. That conventional wisdom is false.”
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Gawker
“The strange and embarrassing thing about being the target of a conspiracy, an actual conspiracy, is that it undermines one’s own understanding of the world. It is true that Gawker was always a publication that took risks. It had bad manners and sometimes bad judgment.
Occasionally, it published things that it would regret—just as, for instance, the New York Times has published things that it regrets.”
Occasionally, it published things that it would regret—just as, for instance, the New York Times has published things that it regrets.”
Tagged:
Gawker
“In one span of a little more than a year, not very long ago, the New York Times mistakenly accepted (and cheered for) a failed Venezuelan coup, printed falsehoods that helped carry the case for invading Iraq, and saw its top editors resign after a humiliating plagiarism scandal. No one suggested the paper had signed its own death warrant.
That the New York Times has the right to exist, to rise above its failings, is taken for granted. No one would mistake the Times for Gawker.”
That the New York Times has the right to exist, to rise above its failings, is taken for granted. No one would mistake the Times for Gawker.”
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Gawker, Peter Thiel
“Gawker always said it was in the business of publishing true stories. Here is one last true story: You live in a country where a billionaire can put a publication out of business. A billionaire can pick off an individual writer and leave that person penniless and without legal protection.
If you want to write stories that might anger a billionaire, you need to work for another billionaire yourself, or for a billion-dollar corporation. The law will not protect you. There is no freedom in this world but power and money.”
If you want to write stories that might anger a billionaire, you need to work for another billionaire yourself, or for a billion-dollar corporation. The law will not protect you. There is no freedom in this world but power and money.”
Tagged:
Gawker, Peter Thiel
“Still, the Times reporter asked, what were my own regrets? I told him, finally, that I had worked at Gawker Media for five years, and that all I could say was that nothing in that time was as shameful to me as a story the Times had put on its front page the month before, slanting the results of a study to argue that police weren’t really disproportionately killing black people. I would have been ashamed, I said, if we had run that.”
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Gawker, Peter Thiel
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