Gawker files for bankruptcy, will sell itself after $140 million Hulk Hogan lawsuit judgement

You may not like what Gawker does with some of its site, I don’t like everything and mostly ignore them (though I like Jalopnik). Gawker Media includes includes Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, and Jezebel, which do a lot of things, some of which would be fair to call journalism. You might hate them all. But for some billionaire to be upset that he was outed by an no-longer-existent site, Valleywag, once run by Gawker, and decide to destroy a media company is a terrible, terrible thing. You might be comfortable with billionaires deciding which media companies may live, and which should be ruined. I’m definitely not.

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