‘Almost’ because that’d kill the people working there, and that would be wicked*. But that media group really does serve as this Horrible Example for the rest of us. Watch out, it silently tells us. We are the last stop on a very dark road.
A few months ago, the Gawker staff announced it had elected to form a union — quite an unusual, and perhaps hostile or passive-aggressive collective act.
I can hardly imagine who might hire someone from Gawker, or who would not recoil at the cruelty, obscenity and logorrhea of a Gawker writer’s clips. Gawker staffers needed a union to protect the only job they might ever have in journalism. They were perhaps protecting too their right to cruelty and obscenity and to be unedited, now expressed in the brutal exposure of the private, unexceptional, if salacious details of a quite unpublic man’s life far from the public interest.
It’s long since past time that the ‘sphere stop linking to those people, and their daughter sites, and their friends. And note who advertises there. Note unfavorably.
Moe Lane
*This site is not Gawker. Some of those people might still be salvaged. And I expect civilized behavior in the comments section.
It would take a heart of stone, etc.
Yeah, they’re a cautionary tale .. I wonder, though, whether preserving them – in digital amber or literal lucite – would matter.
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There are plenty of examples of prior art, after all.
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Mew
I read “right to cruelty and obscenity” as “right to cruelty and obscurity”. And it really didn’t change the article.