I haven’t said much about the Gawker developments, because even thinking about Gawker for more than three seconds a week makes me want to take a cold shower. Gawker has taken potshots at people who truly don’t deserve it: some of them very good people who have done a lot for literature (often very quietly) and some of them friends of mine. But I think Maud’s run-in with Nick Denton pretty much says it all. And I suspect that n+1 is right to announce that it’s truly the end.
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People still read Gawker?
The most crushing part of the N+1 article on is that it exposes the hypocrisy of Gawker’s attitude: a bully pretending to be an underdog.
Gawker is still usually pretty funny, sometimes laugh out loud. Grain of salt, I say.