Gawker is rebranding itself as a politics site Leader 11/17/15 (Tue) 20:27:13 33f02d No. 299295
Damage control intensifies -
Gawker to Retool as Politics Site '
https://archive.is/ecIGc
>The change, which comes as part of a broad reorganization of the site’s parent company, Gawker Media, was announced in a memo to the staff on Tuesday. The site, wrote Gawker’s founder, Nick Denton, “will ride the circus of the 2016 campaign cycle, seizing the opportunity to reorient its editorial scope on political news, commentary and satire.”
>The shift comes after a controversy over the publication and subsequent retraction of an article this summer that led to the resignations of two top editors. The company will now focus on its seven core sites, which include the technology site Gizmodo and the sports site Deadspin, and close smaller offshoots like Defamer, a Hollywood site.
Leader 11/17/15 (Tue) 20:37:46 18f8f9 No. 299300
amusing, but I find myself slightly disinterested in hunting the same rabbit twice. Not shilling, but if you still feel passion for Gawker's sorry state, motivation will be a hurdle in getting me to go after them again. I'm not expecting them to have a big presence with Hulk's trial going well for now.
Leader 11/17/15 (Tue) 20:43:26 099eb3 No. 299302
>>299300
Also, Gawker/Kotaku has been oddly quiet the last couple of months regarding gamergate and shitting on gamers (from what I recall at least). It seems like Polygon took up the slack in that department.
Leader 11/17/15 (Tue) 21:47:04 33f02d No. 299316
A couple more articles on the rebranding.
Gawker will become a politics site — and that means layoffs - uk.businessinsider.com
https://archive.is/2xqOK
Gawker Lays Off Staff as Site Pivots to Politics - observer.com
https://archive.is/Ku60K
Leader 11/17/15 (Tue) 21:55:10 7b12b9 No. 299319
Bout damn time, does this means affiliate sites will probably die off?
>kotaku has died in your lifetime.
Leader 11/17/15 (Tue) 22:31:55 b4090a No. 299327
>>299295
>and satire
There, that's the sole thing they'll do. Horribly. Posing as if it's intelligent political commentary.
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 00:06:15 90478b No. 299347
>>299319
Why would Kotaku die off?
It's also solely about politics.
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 00:58:52 b89647 No. 299371
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 01:42:06 cbc4a4 No. 299377
I noticed Moot's buddy is scheduled to leave within the year. I imagine before they get leg-dropped they will leave with healthy reverences with a future little kickback to Denton when Gawker Media is finally sunk.
The funny thing to me with these layoffs is that they are so salty they are let go with so little compared to the last rats that will be 'scheduled' to leave.
Who would of thought a sinking ship full of sociopaths would end so nastily? It is only going to get worse from here. Wait to the throwing under the bus starts from the ex-employees who suddenly get that they were the disposable pieces of shit that were let go early because they are getting what they are worth, little to none.
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 02:13:58 4a335e No. 299381
>>299375
I love this ride.
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 03:26:59 ec09aa No. 299390
>>299375
I'm sure they got generous layoff packages from gawker to cushion the blow of getting the pink slip.
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 05:14:41 4b6e48 No. 299412
>>299300
I'm torn between wanting to give them a chance to move on from lashing out at gamers and try to be something better (as unlikely as that seems with Denton still in charge), and not wanting to let them have an opportunity to recoup lost finances and staff.
I guess we'll wait and see whether the layoffs include Grayson and Hernandez? Maybe, God willing, all of Kotaku will be pruned?
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 12:40:45 a3e7ec No. 299457
>>299319
Gawker.com is an affiliate site.
This is a decision made by Gawker Media.
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 12:48:39 aeff9e No. 299459
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Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 13:13:38 18f8f9 No. 299461
Nice to see layoffs at Jezebel, Maddy Myers wasn't one which is too bad, considering she was just hired in this year.
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 13:18:29 18f8f9 No. 299464
>>299367
I love this one from Jane Marie. Truly salty.
Should we maybe reach out to the new Gawker editor-in-chief and introduce ourselves? "Hi, your predecessor shittalked us, so we cost him 8 figures in ad revenue. Would you like to have a point of contact with us and know what went wrong/how to communicate with us going forward? :^) "
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 13:24:33 18f8f9 No. 299466
>>299464
Twitter verification is such a strange process, how this feminist got it with only 7k followers is a mystery. She sure is mad though. My schadenfreude is in overdrive today & I haven't even seen her work before.
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 14:48:54 d72480 No. 299501
can't wait to see all these cocksuckers get their shit pushed in.
fuck you Grayson
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 18:04:18 b1b11e No. 299528
Gawker probably got a huge grant off one of Shillarys backers to do this.
Im sure its not as much as the amount we cost them by getting them blacklisted from their advertisers, but its probably enough to fund the site even if nobody goes on it.
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 19:42:23 18f8f9 No. 299551
>>299528
even though Gawker burned, the IT infrastructure is there and the site itself is the equivalent of a "fixer-upper" if you compared it to real estate. The staff are furniture, replace it and you have a fully functioning network for any flavor of content you want. Not a bad investment for the right price, if you wanted to step into a pet project like this.
Leader 11/18/15 (Wed) 20:23:36 2c699d No. 299560
>>299316
Good gravy, but Feminism really s just a shield to these bastards isn't it?
Leader 11/19/15 (Thu) 04:19:02 9987b4 No. 299664
>>299347
Kotaku is toxic and FUBAR by the Gamergate backlash and if they are moving towards politics and purging shit, Kotaku would be the first to go.
Plus there is the angle of killing Kotaku and then bringing the website back under a new name in a year or two, if the politics angle flops or they think the heat has died down enough to try again and think that a brand new name might allow them cover
Leader 11/19/15 (Thu) 04:27:12 9987b4 No. 299665
>>299412
Grayson will probably be amongst the last rats on the ship. Or worse, given a huge on the downlow, just for him golden parachute to make him go quietly, given the shit that Doctor Nerdlove has said about Grayson
Leader 11/19/15 (Thu) 05:55:22 ab5a13 No. 299681
This is it. Direct evidence Gawker is dying and we injected it with cancer. This business plan is SHIT. SHIIIIIT! This election cycle is being driven by conservatives. None of those people are going to want to read anything by these worthless hipster fucks about politics. Also NO ONE is going to read some bullshit ex-gossip site to hear about Shilary. No one fucking likes her, even her own base. THERE IS NO AUDIENCE FOR THIS CRAP. They're talking about the Daily Show, but the Daily Show's ratings are in the dumpster.
Also if Jezebel is shifting away from whiny feminism, that underlines how much that shit is flopping with the general public after this last charge to shove it down everyone's throats.
We're winning.
Leader 11/19/15 (Thu) 07:03:00 39251b No. 299707
>>299681
>"we injected it with cancer."
>implying they weren't already cancer
>implying we aren't mercy killing them for humane reasons.
Leader 11/19/15 (Thu) 07:33:13 3f9b70 No. 299721
>>299707
This.
I may add that nothing will save Denton's soul other than making him a pauper.
SAVE NICK DENTON!
captcha euedgy
Leader 11/19/15 (Thu) 11:31:33 a90ef6 No. 299750
Any news on Hogan's case?
Leader 11/19/15 (Thu) 13:43:33 e07d13 No. 299757
So who are they going to compete with? Salon.com? Should we expect articles defending pedos, attributing collective guilt to all whites, muh #notallmuslims, Caitlyn Jenner is a brave stunning woman, etc.?
They're probably rebranding themselves because dropping their journalistic pretentions means it'll be easier to use the we're-not-reporters defense, you know we're just an opinion website did you see that little disclaimer at the very bottom of our pages?
Leader 11/19/15 (Thu) 13:50:10 e07d13 No. 299758
>>299528
>Gawker probably got a huge grant off one of Shillarys backers to do this.
That wouldn't be surprising. They're probably already working on anti-Trump smear jobs.
And maybe they'll start going after stand-up comedians who laugh at Clinton even though it will backfire. It wouldn't be the first time they shoot themselves in the foot.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/11/clinton-goes-after-laugh-factory-comedians-for-making-fun-of-her/
>Masada told Judicial Watch that, as soon as the video got posted on the Laugh Factory website, he received a phone call from a “prominent” person inside Clinton’s campaign. “He said the video was disgusting and asked who put me up to this,” Masada said. The Clinton staffer, who Masada did not want to identify, also demanded to know the names and phone numbers of the comedians that appear in the video. Masada refused and hung up.
Leader 11/20/15 (Fri) 05:19:57 506ac2 No. 299951
>>299412
Mercy should be given to those that want to learn from their mistakes, take onus, and want to repair damage. These fucks deserve bankruptcy.
Leader 11/20/15 (Fri) 06:00:02 d136a4 No. 299958
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>299951
>Mercy should be given
I agree…
Leader 11/20/15 (Fri) 06:55:31 bf81e2 No. 299967
>>299412
>>299951
>>299958
From the get-go they were never writing for the gamers, and when they got caught with their pants down they called gamers misogynist harassers to deflect responsibility. And now they want sympathy and mercy?
No. Fuck that noise.
Leader 11/20/15 (Fri) 07:06:39 d136a4 No. 299983
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>299967
Did you click on the vid I posted?
Leader 11/20/15 (Fri) 07:07:36 d136a4 No. 299984
>>299967
>>299983
I meant the vid in the previous post, I don't know why that posted, lol!
Leader 11/20/15 (Fri) 07:43:08 411233 No. 300016
>>299750
Hogans lawyers were still going over evidence looking to prove Gawker leaked the audio tape stuff of Hogan saying the word nigger.
Hogan also got the judge to agree if they can prove Gawker was behind the leak that his lawyers can move for summary judgment, which means the judge can decide the case then and there; a horrible worst case scenario for Gawker since it means a 99.9% chance they will lose and be double fucked in terms of how much they will have to pay Hogan in damages, as well as killing all hope for an appeal to lessen the amount/get the loss overturned, in terms of their retaliation making it flat out impossible to get an appeals judge to give them a do over.
As such, Denton and his lawyers are doing their DAMNEST to delay delay delay. They have moved the trial to next spring, which will probably be delayed again if they can help it.
Leader 11/20/15 (Fri) 22:29:49 7e674d No. 300144
>>300016
Have to buy enough time to move money over into private accounts.
Embezzling isn't quick, you know?
Leader 11/20/15 (Fri) 22:33:18 6bb652 No. 300147
>>299967
He's such a snake. I can't believe what a weasel he is.
Leader 11/21/15 (Sat) 02:54:37 8ac53b No. 300186
>>299551
whats the chances of 8ch buying out gawker?
Leader 11/23/15 (Mon) 00:28:28 63d682 No. 300536
>>300144
More like stalling for the sake of stalling.
In civil lawsuits, the general strategy is to stall stall stall and try and drag shit out so that one side eventually goes broke. Hogan lost a huge chunk of his income from the divorce and being blacklisted by the WWE.
With the new changes being made to rebrand Gawker a politics site, I would not be shocked if Gawker's hoping the relaunch will bring in enough money to keep the lawyers asking for enough continuances until Hogan goes broke.
Leader 11/25/15 (Wed) 18:02:45 8f1e53 No. 301207
>>299300
Well, from the beginning the plan was to burn them to the ground for being such a useless shitrag. Operation DN could still use the occasional e-mail if you're up for it.
Undercover FBI Agent 11/27/15 (Fri) 19:38:27 1a4fd3 No. 302359
Undercover FBI Agent 11/28/15 (Sat) 05:06:58 e1c2e4 No. 302692
>>299375
>there have also been significant departures—not necessarily layoffs—in ad sales. (Its ad boss left in October.)
I can only imagine his face after a year of Disrespectful Nod.
Leader 11/28/15 (Sat) 17:20:01 965813 No. 302945
>>300536
Wasn't Hogan reinstated on WWE's web ?
Leader 11/28/15 (Sat) 22:15:36 7efac0 No. 303175
Leader 11/29/15 (Sun) 00:30:14 629773 No. 303235
>>303209
TO WIPE MY ASS WITH
Leader 11/29/15 (Sun) 16:24:04 5f092d No. 303584
>>299967
Jason Scheier is cool and makes funny tweets.
Leader 11/30/15 (Mon) 04:15:36 0f185b No. 303965
>>299295
Saw this article on the subject.
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/gawker-will-become-a-politics-site-as-company-plans-overhaul/
>In many ways, we let 1,000 flowers bloom, a strategy that resulted in some successes
Wait. Did they think people wouldn't know the source of that quote? A little-known obscure political activist named Chairman Mao?
>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/let_a_thousand_flowers_bloom
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
In a way, it makes sense that the worst website in the world would be inspired by the worst mass murderer in history.
Leader 11/30/15 (Mon) 07:13:21 b949e2 No. 304046
>>299335
The butthurt has never been this delicious
Leader 11/30/15 (Mon) 11:45:38 7efac0 No. 304210
>>299335
>If anybody is looking for a smart video game critic
Is that literally the most notable thing he can put on his resume?
Leader 12/04/15 (Fri) 15:28:25 33f02d No. 307097
More bad times and layoffs for Gawker.
Gawker Media: "Not a Stable Work Environment"
https://archive.is/B9QsC
Leader 12/04/15 (Fri) 22:11:02 d76df6 No. 307211
>>304210
"I got fired because the business I was working in ran out of money because we insulted our customers" sure doesn't sound really attractive.
>>307097
"(…) to call Gawker Media founder Nick Denton a very bad leader" who would have thought?! /s
Leader 12/04/15 (Fri) 22:44:38 5740f8 No. 307215
>>303965
These feminists idolize Mao so much, I'm wondering if they knew what happened to his wife.
Leader 12/04/15 (Fri) 23:14:20 7ab84c No. 307219
So, what are we going to do to fire the last torpedo under their water-line to cause a catastrophic failure instead of it slowly sinking to give them enough time for damage control?
I'm hearing FINISH HIM in my head…
Leader 12/05/15 (Sat) 01:47:02 7b0400 No. 307250
gawker is a good website and I enjoy their content
Leader 12/05/15 (Sat) 02:11:46 36a4a2 No. 307256
>>299335
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW
Leader 12/05/15 (Sat) 04:11:08 a76183 No. 307275
>>307097
>acting like shit sucking assholes to customers isn't the best business practice
Who'd of thunk it?
Leader 12/05/15 (Sat) 05:30:40 86ddeb No. 307281
>>307097
Kind of makes me want to spam "DIES IRAE" in every comment section I can get to on that site.
Leader 12/05/15 (Sat) 23:05:55 3b4a27 No. 307504