I have to say, I feel like Gawker doubled down on bad ideas here (seemingly just for pettiness’ sake), then continued to crow about journalism. I mean, outing somebody against their will then turning right around and airing somebody else’s sex tape (and getting very arrogant about both after the fact)? Both were private, neither was newsworthy, and at least with Hogan, they were given the opportunity to undo it… but again, “journalistic integrity”, etc. I don’t see this as “rich guy shuts down the press with cash” so much as, “blog gets too big for its britches and pays for invading privacy”.
ETA: I also find all of this interesting given how much time they dedicated to telling the world Reddit was over for the last couple of years.
