“We have never, never shied away from outing people.”
This attitude that can only be classified as blind arrogance was embodied by a staffer who told Mother Jones: It certainly does since one is cheating on your spouse and the other is an identity crisis. Gawker contested that the sex of the escort doesn't matter, and they couldn't be more wrong. Not all executives are scumbags, but that seemed to be the presumption behind the logic of releasing this piece. Conde Nast's CFO had his entire life turned upside down in an article that took one business day to vet. He is married with three children and it would be bad enough if it stopped there, but they also aided the man blackmailing him by releasing the story. He has never taken a public stance on homosexuality and is not a public figure in any sense of the journalistic term other than a last name that he shares with a former treasury secretary. Gawker removed a post for the first time after they outed Conde Nast's CFO as gay.
I'm a fan of Gawker & several of its journalists, but that article is reprehensible beyond belief: it's deranged to publish that.- Glenn Greenwald July 17, 2015 Ultimately, Gawker’s brash ethos descended into hubris, and they pushed the envelope to the point where people who would normally be on their side began to abandon them. Their take rich and powerful prisoners attitude produced journalism that both revolutionized and reviled the internet. Gawker essentially parked a 50-foot middle finger outside every house in America’s gated communities. The culture of the internet is such that it seems like everyone who writes online gets paid per snark, and we can thank Gawker for much of that.
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