Gawker's bid for resurrection ends, as the Kickstarter closes and falls short of funding goal - Sensationalist Headlines

[quote]A Kickstarter campaign to resurrect Gawker.com, the celebrity and media gossip site driven into bankruptcy by wrestler Hulk Hogan’s sex-tape lawsuit, expired on Tuesday, well short of its fundraising goal. Members of The Gawker Foundation, a nonprofit created by former staffers, launched the campaign last month with the hopes of raising $500,000 to buy shuttered Gawker.com and relaunch the site. But the coalition fell far short of the ambitious goal, with nearly 1,500 backers raising less than $90,000 as the campaign expired Tuesday. Gawker.com, along with all Gawker Media brands, was put up for auction in June 2016 after Hogan won a $140 million invasion-of-privacy verdict against the company, sending it into bankruptcy. That August, Univision bought Gawker Media’s properties for $135 million, and Gawker.com was shut down. Despite the fundraising failure, campaign organizers were “floored by the outpouring of support,” said James Del, a former vice president of programming at Gawker Media and a Gawker Foundation organizer. “It was an ambitious goal, but nearly 1,500 people were willing to pay money for a site that hasn’t published in over a year,” Del wrote in an email to HuffPost on Tuesday. “That’s impressive, and though we won’t be able to compete at auction, we hope one of the other benevolent parties interested in the site is able to win. There’s clearly demand.” Another former Gawker staffer, who spoke to HuffPost on the condition of anonymity, said the campaign’s failure was disappointing, but not surprising. “Look: If the alumni all rallied behind it openly and loudly, I think the goal would’ve been hit,” the person wrote in an email. The Gawker Foundation had outlined two goals for the fundraising campaign: preserve the site’s archives, and relaunch Gawker.com “under the stewardship of former editors, new writers, and an entirely membership-funded model.” Plans are “underway” to preserve Gawker.com’s archives, according to Del, which hold articles that predate news sites like BuzzFeed, Vox, Mic and HuffPost. “There are years and years of stories in there that chronicle some of the earliest years of media blogging in New York and beyond, and as we’ve seen over the past year, we have no idea how many posts in that archive will become newsworthy in the future,” Del said.[/quote] [url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gawker-kickstarter-fails_us_5a54cf6ee4b01e1a4b19beea]Huffington Post[/url]

Fuck off, if there's one thing I hate it's gossip rags. Nobody has any business poking into someone's private life the way these assholes did, and thank god they're dead.

Wait, there was a Kickstarter? Oh lord, that is just precious.

I think more journalism is needed now, not less though. Although I dunno what's stopping them from making a spiritual successor

[QUOTE=Lambeth;53040876]I think more journalism is needed now, not less though. Although I dunno what's stopping them from making a spiritual successor[/QUOTE] As long as it isn't yellow journalism of the sort Gawker was well known for, then yes. We've had a big problem with that lately on both sides of the political spectrum, but more on the right as well.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;53040876]I think more journalism is needed now, not less though. Although I dunno what's stopping them from making a spiritual successor[/QUOTE] I wouldn't call what Gawker was "journalism".

[QUOTE=Lambeth;53040876]I think more journalism is needed now, not less though. Although I dunno what's stopping them from making a spiritual successor[/QUOTE] The type of journalism that gawker is known for is fucking abhorrent and deserves everything it got. We need way less of that type of journalism, not more.

[quote]“Hulk Hogan conceded that Gawker’s story about him was true, yet he still won a vast judgment and, not incidentally, drove the Web site out of business,” Jeffrey Toobin wrote for The New Yorker. “The prospect of liability, perhaps existential in nature, for true stories presents a chilling risk for those who rely on the First Amendment.”[/quote] He never denied it was true. He argued that it violated his privacy for a story that didn't even need to be told. You can tell if a journalist is actually good at their job or not by whether they defend Gawker.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;53040876]I think more journalism is needed now, not less though. Although I dunno what's stopping them from making a spiritual successor[/QUOTE] Seems like a big thing they wanted was to preserve the archives, which I have no doubt are full of gossip about people like Weinstein that they could point to and say, "Look! Gawker reported this X years ago and no one believed us!"

[QUOTE=Pax;53040979]Seems like a big thing they wanted was to preserve the archives, which I have no doubt are full of gossip about people like Weinstein that they could point to and say, "Look! Gawker reported this X years ago and no one believed us!"[/QUOTE] And why didn't they believe Gawker? Oh yeah, because of their reputation as a "publish first, verify second," gossip rag.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;53040876]I think more journalism is needed now, not less though. Although I dunno what's stopping them from making a spiritual successor[/QUOTE] If they defied a court order to take down a video proving innocence of a wrongly convicted "felon of the state" I would agree, however they defied a court order to take down a sex tape of an aging wrestler.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;53040876]I think more journalism is needed now, not less though. Although I dunno what's stopping them from making a spiritual successor[/QUOTE] I'm not too sure that exposing people personal details like someone being a scientoligist, outing someone as gay without permission, or showing off a video of someone having sex and swearing all in the privacy of their own home as journalism. This all seems to be akin to something a tabloid or gossip rag rather than reporting or investigating issues that matter to the world like, Swatting incident kills a man or Lead in the water supply potentially exposing a generation of children to unknown side effects.

[QUOTE=Pax;53040979]Seems like a big thing they wanted was to preserve the archives, which I have no doubt are full of gossip about people like Weinstein that they could point to and say, "Look! Gawker reported this X years ago and no one believed us!"[/QUOTE] They did report on Louis CK ages before the NY times story last year.

Gawker was on its deathbed long before Hulk Hogan got involved, they had dug their own grave in the same way Vice is digging their's now.

[QUOTE]The Gawker Foundation had outlined two goals for the fundraising campaign: preserve the site’s archives, and relaunch Gawker.com “under the stewardship of former editors, new writers, and an entirely membership-funded model.”[/QUOTE] Translation: not even the shadiest investor or money launderers would touch our festering corpse of a half formed wannabe tabloid. [QUOTE]“Hulk Hogan conceded that Gawker’s story about him was true, yet he still won a vast judgment and, not incidentally, drove the Web site out of business,” Jeffrey Toobin wrote for The New Yorker. “The prospect of liability, perhaps existential in nature, for true stories presents a chilling risk for those who rely on the First Amendment.”[/QUOTE] Translation: Also we're still the victim, pity us, whom were morally wronged by an orange tyrant with a stupid mustache. Fuck off you sleazebags. Y'all reap what you sow.

Why would anyone fund this kickstarter to begin with? I can't imagine anyone was lining up to fund one of the most sleazy gossip rags out there.

The worst part about Gawker is that they still haven't seemed to come to terms with [i]why[/i] they lost the case from Hogan. They didn't learn a single lesson from this massive lawsuit and were just going to start it up and do it all over again.

[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;53042089]Translation: not even the shadiest investor or money launderers would touch our festering corpse of a half formed wannabe tabloid. Translation: Also we're still the victim, pity us, whom were morally wronged by an orange tyrant with a stupid mustache. Fuck off you sleazebags. Y'all reap what you sow.[/QUOTE] All the other tabloids are owned by one guy who happens to be Trumps friend. Are you concerned about their garbage journalism too? Considering they're just as bad in so many ways?

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;53042249]All the other tabloids are owned by one guy who happens to be Trumps friend. Are you concerned about their garbage journalism too? Considering they're just as bad in so many ways?[/QUOTE] I can't answer for anyone other than me, but I am. Shitty journalism hurts everyone.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;53040876]I think more journalism is needed now, not less though. Although I dunno what's stopping them from making a spiritual successor[/QUOTE] Less Gawker = more journalism

[QUOTE=Lambeth;53041025]They did report on Louis CK ages before the NY times story last year.[/QUOTE] When you don't have ethical standards against publishing articles without a shred of evidence you're bound to eventually run into something that's true, in between destroying innocent people's private lives for money

never forget [t]http://outkickcle.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Hulk-Hogan-Back-In-WWE-1050x654-2.jpg[/t] you will not be missed

I sincerely hope no other gossip rag grows out of Gawker's shit covered corpse. "Journalism" is already a shady subject as is (what with all the recent scandals and cries of "fake news") - we don't need to make it worse because some idiot with more money than sense wants to appease the gossip-peddling Twitter users who feed on shit like this as a way of life.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;53040876]I think more journalism is needed now, not less though. Although I dunno what's stopping them from making a spiritual successor[/QUOTE] There are like 7 spiritual successor blogs on the former Gawker network sites now. Problem is, none of them are journalism, they're all just race baiting or hyper left wing shit slinging.

[QUOTE=Johnny Joe;53042523]never forget you will not be missed[/QUOTE] Gawker was left bleeding fatally and yet slowly in the middle of a busy street after THE HOGAN beat it to death Everyone cheered and no one offered help as it lied in agony and its a beautiful sight to see