![]() ![]() And the trial, far from rehabilitating Gawker’s reputation for professionalism or decency, soiled it further by dredging up unseemly episodes from the site’s past. Observers were, then, rather skeptical that Gawker had principled journalistic reasons to publish Hulk Hogan’s sex tape. Gawker offers nihilistic hypocrisy as clickbait. A reliable critic of objectifying women out of one side of its mouth, Gawker publishes hacked and leaked nudes out of the other. Senate, including critique of her pubic hair, because Gawker didn’t like her politics. Gawker paid a young man to describe a sexual encounter with a candidate for U.S. Gawker also champions feminist values, particularly through its site Jezebel, even as it humiliates women for traffic. Recently, Gawker transmuted blackmail into clicks when it participated in a male escort’s extortion of a married executive from a rival media empire. At the same time, its writers smugly and self-righteously out gay men. ![]() Gawker Media attacks anti-gay politicians and celebrates advances in gay rights. It was also a reaction to Gawker’s routine degradation of its targets, and to how sharply that behavior contrasts with Gawker’s progressive pieties. Spite arose from partisan hostility to Gawker’s reliably left-of-center sensibilities. From a legal and constitutional perspective, even Gawker haters should be troubled by its fate. But schadenfreude isn’t a 1st Amendment value. It’s tempting to side with the gloaters I’m as disgusted by Gawker as the next guy, and I’m not above feeling a frisson of glee when bad people face consequences for their actions. “Goodbye and good riddance to Gawker,” the New York Post sneered. “What a beautiful day,” tweeted Hulk Hogan, whose $140-million invasion-of-privacy verdict - underwritten by hostile Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel - doomed Nick Denton’s snarky online empire. ![]() Last week’s Gawker Media bankruptcy inspired online triumph. ![]()
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