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“It’s a shame the Hogan trial took place without the motives of the plaintiff’s backer being known. If there is a lasting legacy from this experience, it should be a new awareness of the danger of dark money in litigation finance. And that’s surely in the spirit of the transparency Gawker was founded to promote.”
— Nick Denton, A hard peace
Tagged: Gawker, Hulk vs Gawker
“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.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
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.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: Gawker, Peter Thiel
“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.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: Gawker, Peter Thiel
“Rather than fighting the material that he really objected to, Thiel went looking for pretexts. Over time, he came up with them.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: Gawker, Peter Thiel
“The change begins with the post about Thiel’s sexual identity in a homophobic investor culture, the post Thiel now cites as the inspiration for his decision to destroy Gawker. It was solidly protected by media law and the First Amendment, as were the other posts that, as Thiel wrote, ‘attacked and mocked people’—specifically, his cohort of rising plutocrats in Silicon Valley. Hurting rich people’s feelings is, in principle, not a punishable offense.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: Gawker, First Amendment, Peter Thiel
“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.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: Gawker
“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.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: 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.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: Gawker
“A lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down Gawker.com.”
— Tom Scocca, Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Tagged: Gawker
“Working at Gawker was somewhere in between doing time in an asylum and worshipping in a cult.”
— Rich Juzwiak, There's Someone Else I've Got To Be
Tagged: Gawker
“I think a lot of us—and the site overall—share a sensibility that simultaneously takes the world very seriously while understanding that everything is a big joke. And we’d joke about the overly serious and take serious the overt jokes. I dusted as much as possible with a thin layer of satire, because this world and its inhabitants are fundamentally ridiculous but, overall, endearingly so.”
— Rich Juzwiak, There's Someone Else I've Got To Be
Tagged: Gawker
“I have never felt entirely comfortable in any group, but I came closest at Gawker, because I generally felt like I was working with people who were the best at what they did, making something that would with another staff and (inevitably) more stifling management be impossible.”
— Rich Juzwiak, There's Someone Else I've Got To Be
Tagged: Gawker
“The site’s run-till-tackled mentality was exhilarating while we ran—I appreciated that no one ever asked me to reduce myself or change to appease readers, especially because I know that even the best-intentioned among a liberal audience can have a hard time swallowing really gay shit. The tackling that finally took place, wrestling Gawker to the ground and then erasing it from the planet.”
— Rich Juzwiak, There's Someone Else I've Got To Be
Tagged: Gawker
“What appealed to me, more than anything, was a sensibility that loathed preciousness, that refused to defer to the most sensitive person in the room out of social pressure and smarmy politeness.”
— Rich Juzwiak, There's Someone Else I've Got To Be
Tagged: Gawker
“Because of Gawker’s breadth, and because it didn’t have so much a single voice as a cacophony of several voices at any given time, the site meant many different things to many different people.”
— Rich Juzwiak, There's Someone Else I've Got To Be
Tagged: Gawker
“When I think about the demise of Gawker, I cope by viewing it from a remove and as a narrative. If nobody starves and this somehow manages to leave freedom of press unscathed (the latter obviously being the bigger if than the former), what has been crafted is a tale that would seem too outrageous as fiction.”
— Rich Juzwiak, There's Someone Else I've Got To Be
Tagged: Gawker
“A Gawker editor of the past coined the slogan, ‘Honesty is our only virtue.’ That will do as well as anything. Many Gawker readers did not think we were the best writers, nor did they even particularly like us; they read Gawker because they knew that we would tell the truth about whatever was happening. No bullshit. Well, some bullshit. You can’t have great ideas every day.”
— Hamilton Nolan, What Was Gawker? 
Tagged: Gawker
“Gawker was anarchist journalism at its finest. Every day, a page to be filled; every day, a chance for greatness, or idiocy. This site contains the very best and worst things that many writers have written. This fact drives many people mad. But to the sort of person who was cut out to be a Gawker writer, it was just right.”
— Hamilton Nolan, What Was Gawker? 
Tagged: Gawker
“Most attempts to explain this publication’s editorial direction tell you more about the person doing the explaining than they do about this publication. With a little cherry-picking you can make it seem like our focus was just about anything. In truth, we had no focus. We had writers.”
— Hamilton Nolan, What Was Gawker? 
Tagged: Gawker

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