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knux said:
This guy just keeps piling up the excuses.
All he had to do was take down the video of Hogan.
Now Hogan can take his house, car, etc.
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I would love, absolutely love, to see how much revenue the Hogan sex tape produced, versus how much Denton will be paying through the nose after all this. What princely sum could convince Denton and his entire staff to ignore a court order, knowing very well that it would fuck them over? In other words...what's the price to get Denton to do anything we damn well want?
 
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Looks like wishes can come true.

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Looks like wishes can come true.

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Dumbass, it was never about them. It was never about the company, never about your employees, it was always and forever about you. You probably realize that and you're trying to paint yourself as a kind, caring, and sensitive man, but no one's buying what you're selling. Anyone with even a passing interest looks into this and sees that you fucked over both Hogan and Thiel, and they came together in a tag-team superstar matchup to give you the leg drop-YOU. Not Gawker. Not your employees. You, Nick Denton, were the target. Everything else was just collateral damage.
 
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Nick Denton had to declare bankruptcy. It was the only way to stop the immediate seizure of all his assets. One effect of a bankruptcy filing is it immediately stays all pending (non-criminal) legal proceedings.
 
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http://fortune.com/2016/08/01/gawker-denton-memo/

Get a load of this faggotry.

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The memo



You may have seen the news that I have, as expected, had to join the company in bankruptcy. Peter Thiel’s legal campaign has targeted individual writers like Sam Biddle, editors such as John Cook, and me as publisher. It is a personal vendetta. And yes, it’s a disturbing to live in a world in which a billionaire can bully journalists because he didn’t like the coverage.

Still, I’m in a positive frame of mind, because our influential brands will soon be free to thrive under new ownership, and our very existence as an independent entity has been a triumph. For once, the journalistic cliché is appropriate: We’ve spoken truth to power. Sometimes uncomfortable truths. Sometimes gossipy truths. But truths. There is a price to pay for that, and I am paying it now. But we never gave up our souls in the pursuit of an easy life.

What really lifts my spirits is the way in which we have stood together and just kept on writing, coding, and selling. Our stories reached 12 million more people around the world in July (104m) than they did in April (92m), before the bankruptcy. We were all over the political conventions and Pokémon Go, among other stories.

Eyal just sent round a note saying that last week brought in a million dollars in direct advertising bookings, positioning us well for a further rebound once the future direction of the business is clear.Amazon Prime Day was 63 percent up on last year, with $7m in sales for merchant partners, underlining the unique credibility that brands such as Gizmodo have with consumers.

Every department has kept focus and momentum. The pace of product development is sure and rapid. Our writers are the most productive and effective in digital media. The sales materials are more coherent and professional than they have ever been. Our sites dominate news in categories like technology, cars, and video games.

The brands and the business, which we have built together, are in amazingly robust shape. We’ll go into the final stage of the sale with confidence in our continued momentum, and the knowledge that we’ve all been witnesses to a media miracle.

This is a company founded by a journalist, built around a journalistic mission, beholden only to readers. We can be proud that we survived and prospered as an independent company for more than a decade, and have a second act ahead of us, under the shelter finally of a larger media company.

Gawker endures.

Nick
 
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Rogowski said:
http://fortune.com/2016/08/01/gawker-denton-memo/

Still, I’m in a positive frame of mind, because our influential brands will soon be free to thrive under new ownership, and our very existence as an independent entity has been a triumph. For once, the journalistic cliché is appropriate: We’ve spoken truth to power. Sometimes uncomfortable truths. Sometimes gossipy truths. But truths.
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When Václav Havel talked about "speaking truth to power" I'm pretty sure he didn't mean dick pics of a professional wrestler.
 
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Rogowski said:
What really lifts my spirits is the way in which we have stood together and just kept on writing, coding, and selling. Our stories reached 12 million more people around the world in July (104m) than they did in April (92m), before the bankruptcy. We were all over the political conventions and Pokémon Go, among other stories.
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Yeah, they really stood alone in reporting on the conventions and Pokemon Go. Nobody else had the courage or foresight to cover the biggest political event in the country and an app with 70+ million users until Gawker stepped up to the plate. Seriously, that's some All the President's Men-level reporting there.
 
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Rogowski said:
http://fortune.com/2016/08/01/gawker-denton-memo/

Get a load of this faggotry.

EDIT:
The memo



You may have seen the news that I have, as expected, had to join the company in bankruptcy. Peter Thiel’s legal campaign has targeted individual writers like Sam Biddle, editors such as John Cook, and me as publisher. It is a personal vendetta. And yes, it’s a disturbing to live in a world in which a billionaire can bully journalists because he didn’t like the coverage.

Still, I’m in a positive frame of mind, because our influential brands will soon be free to thrive under new ownership, and our very existence as an independent entity has been a triumph. For once, the journalistic cliché is appropriate: We’ve spoken truth to power. Sometimes uncomfortable truths. Sometimes gossipy truths. But truths. There is a price to pay for that, and I am paying it now. But we never gave up our souls in the pursuit of an easy life.

What really lifts my spirits is the way in which we have stood together and just kept on writing, coding, and selling. Our stories reached 12 million more people around the world in July (104m) than they did in April (92m), before the bankruptcy. We were all over the political conventions and Pokémon Go, among other stories.

Eyal just sent round a note saying that last week brought in a million dollars in direct advertising bookings, positioning us well for a further rebound once the future direction of the business is clear.Amazon Prime Day was 63 percent up on last year, with $7m in sales for merchant partners, underlining the unique credibility that brands such as Gizmodo have with consumers.

Every department has kept focus and momentum. The pace of product development is sure and rapid. Our writers are the most productive and effective in digital media. The sales materials are more coherent and professional than they have ever been. Our sites dominate news in categories like technology, cars, and video games.

The brands and the business, which we have built together, are in amazingly robust shape. We’ll go into the final stage of the sale with confidence in our continued momentum, and the knowledge that we’ve all been witnesses to a media miracle.

This is a company founded by a journalist, built around a journalistic mission, beholden only to readers. We can be proud that we survived and prospered as an independent company for more than a decade, and have a second act ahead of us, under the shelter finally of a larger media company.

Gawker endures.

Nick
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See previous comment of mine about how it was never about your employees or company. I think this memo is just him trying to do internal 'hoo-rah!' and make everyone feel a bit better, when realistically everyone is prepping resumes and purging any mention of Gawker from them. He can't be so thick as to think Thiel gives any iota of a shit about Gawker itself, this is all about revenge on Denton himself, and Nick has to know-unless he's so exceptional he really believes his own bullshit.
 
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