• Gawker Founder to Peter Thiel: You won, leave my journalists alone
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[url]http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/02/gawker-founder-denton-focused-on-getting-the-best-price-i-can-for-the-business.html[/url] [QUOTE]Gawker founder and CEO Nick Denton has a message for billionaire Peter Thiel: You succeeded in bankrupting my company and me personally, stop targeting my journalists. On Monday, Denton filed for personal bankruptcy protection in the aftermath of a Florida jury's $140 million award to Terry Bollea, also known as Hulk Hogan, in a privacy case, funded by Thiel, over a sex tape posted on Gawker.com. Since the Hogan verdict and "since Peter Thiel set his sites on the destruction of Gawker.com, this has been sort of inevitable," Denton said Tuesday on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "You bankrupted the company. You bankrupted me personally. Why are you still going after [our] Sam Biddle, a journalist [and] John Cook, our executive editor? Why are you targeting individual journalists because you're upset with coverage?" said Denton. "The major creditors consist of three people Hulk Hogan; Shiva Ayyadurai, the man who claimed to have invented email; and Ashley Terrill, a journalist. All are clients of Charles Harder who is the lawyer Peter Thiel is funding," Denton said. Ayyadurai, the husband of actress Fran Drescher, is seeking $35 million damages, naming as defendants Denton, Biddle and Cook. Terrill is seeking $10 million, naming Biddle and Cook but not Denton.[/QUOTE] also gawker published this article yesterday saying that peter thiel is interested in harvesting blood from the young [url]https://archive.is/1mUo8[/url] glad sam "Bring back bullying" biddle is getting hit by him tho
The Gawker staff in general contributed to it's downfall, they made their bed and now they get to lie in it Never would have been as bad as it is for them now if they didnt all pitch in with bad decisions, the worst of which was actually joining Gawker to begin with (that or the whole ignoring a court order thing)
Accountability's a right cunt, isn't it, Denton? Should've thought of that before hiring someone who tweets things like this: [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/MeNQuTe.png[/IMG]
Fuckin' strangle them, don't let up until they're stuck on the street corner wearing a fucking barrel.
[QUOTE]"You bankrupted the company. You bankrupted me personally. Why are you still going after [our] Sam Biddle, a journalist [and] John Cook, our executive editor?"[/QUOTE] Two down, two to go. The more shitty journalists that go down with Gawker, the better.
Aww, boo hoo.
Well what the fuck did you people expect? Peter Thiel has crazy cannibal eyes and you claim he took Oingo Boingo's Weird Science music video to heart, so outing him as gay probably wasn't a good idea. The guy is filthy fucking rich, allegedly insane, and willing to fund sci-fi shit to beat death itself; [I]you deserve everything you're getting.[/I] [editline]3rd August 2016[/editline] This is the journalistic equivalent to pissing on a hobo sleeping off a brutal double murder because he had a terrible Vietnam flashback. [editline]3rd August 2016[/editline] Oh, and since Gawker's merry gang have no friends even [I]remotely[/I] capable of fielding a defense they're bleating appeals to emotion to try and drum up support. Yeah, I love the 1st Amendment, I think journalism has a very important role in society, but there is [I]no fucking way[/I] I will consider a SJW gossip rag journalism and this is between private citizens anyway so RIP in piss you fuckers.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;50820454]Accountability's a right cunt, isn't it, Denton? Should've thought of that before hiring someone who tweets things like this: [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/MeNQuTe.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] I had never heard of this dude before, and I was hoping maybe he wasn't as bad as you say. Literally the SECOND search result was this: [IMG]http://jesusfuck.me/di/2J1J/screenshot-2016-08-03-15-29-57.png[/IMG] I mean who the fuck writes articles like that? "Insane Klan Posse"? I wouldn't even expect PCGamesN to post articles like this.
[QUOTE=Ta16;50820533]I mean who the fuck writes articles like that? "Insane Klan Posse"? I wouldn't even expect PCGamesN to post articles like this.[/QUOTE]To be fair Peter Thiel isn't a nice guy, well, he is [I]in a certain context[/I] but this isn't it. I'm not sure if it's arrogance on Gawker's part or just pure ignorance but they [I]should have known[/I] what would happen if they crossed him. This isn't the Koch brothers who don't give a single fuck if people don't like them, this dude takes shit personally at all times and he's worth three billion dollars so obviously he's not like most of the other right-leaning people they piss off.
[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;50820559]To be fair Peter Thiel isn't a nice guy, well, he is [I]in a certain context[/I] but this isn't it. I'm not sure if it's arrogance on Gawker's part or just pure ignorance but they [I]should have known[/I] what would happen if they crossed him. This isn't the Koch brothers who don't give a single fuck if people don't like them, this dude takes shit personally at all times and he's worth three billion dollars so obviously he's not like most of the other right-leaning people they piss off.[/QUOTE] Oh, I don't think you'll find many people here that will say Thiel ISN'T a piece of shit. However when your entire business model is "Start Shit" manufacturing controversy where none exists, does it really suprise anyone Kotaku is in this position? To put this into laymans terms: Peter Thiel was a hornets nest, and Nick Deton said 'I'm going to stick my penis in that thing' with predictable results.
There aren't any journalists at gawker.
This case continues to make me happier and happier. Seriously fuck Kotaku for all the shit they've come out with over the years, I can't believe I actually read them at one point. I stopped as soon as I read about the Gamergate site. I hope one day maybe game 'journalism' will recover, but for now I'll stay with Rock Paper Shotgun and TotalBiscuit.
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;50820853]This case continues to make me happier and happier. Seriously fuck Kotaku for all the shit they've come out with over the years, I can't believe I actually read them at one point. I stopped as soon as I read about the Gamergate site. I hope one day maybe game 'journalism' will recover, but for now I'll stay with Rock Paper Shotgun and TotalBiscuit.[/QUOTE] Honestly, Kotaku is pretty good, all things considered. They just have enough journalists that you're inevitably going to get garbage like the, "He Let Me Die," mess from Diablo 3 or whatever Patricia Hernandez is writing at a given moment, and can cherry pick that to make them look like a mess, but most of their work is excellent. I think they specifically were the first to begin breaking the PS4 Neo news
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;50820454]Accountability's a right cunt, isn't it, Denton? Should've thought of that before hiring someone who tweets things like this: [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/MeNQuTe.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] *But don't bully me, because I'm the only one who is allowed to bully.
Wii60 is a true bro to keep us updated on this trainwreck.
[QUOTE=Maegord;50821016]Honestly, Kotaku is pretty good, all things considered. They just have enough journalists that you're inevitably going to get garbage like the, "He Let Me Die," mess from Diablo 3 or whatever Patricia Hernandez is writing at a given moment, and can cherry pick that to make them look like a mess, but most of their work is excellent. I think they specifically were the first to begin breaking the PS4 Neo news[/QUOTE] Kotaku is universally terrible and constantly do sketchy shit.
I want Gawker to be wiped from existence so people know that sites as shit as them does not fly in the modern world.
[QUOTE=Maegord;50821016]Honestly, Kotaku is pretty good, all things considered.[/QUOTE] I'm so sorry for your low standards. You should check out Hardcoregaming101 if you want to see some really good articles on retrogames and game series. I've yet to find any good sites that cover modern news besides Siliconera, which mostly covers Japanese games.
[QUOTE=Tetsmega;50821252]I'm so sorry for your low standards. You should check out Hardcoregaming101 if you want to see some really good articles on retrogames and game series. I've yet to find any good sites that cover modern news besides Siliconera, which mostly covers Japanese games.[/QUOTE] In my opinion Rock Paper Shotgun is pretty good but they only cover PC games, so you won't be getting anything related to consoles unfortunately. You're right though, it is hard to find a good gaming news site nowadays, which is why a lot of the reviews or other gaming things I'd look up come from Youtube.
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