What I find more disturbing and ethically questionable is the that many of the news outlets blasting Thiel have major conflicts of interest that are rarely bein

What I find more disturbing and ethically questionable is the that many of the news outlets blasting Thiel have major conflicts of interest that are rarely being disclosed. For an example of how media is connected to Gawker, take a look at the disclosure for this Slate article http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2016/05/peter_thiel_wants_to_destroy_gawker_it_will_be_catastrophic_if_he_does.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2016/05/... " Disclosure: One Slate editor is married to a Gawker editor. One is married to a lawyer who represented Gawker in the Hulk Hogan trial. One is a former Gawker Media executive editor. None of these Slate staffers worked on this story. " That is three editors who actually have a direct financial impact from the Gawker case. Even if they did not personally work on the story, the fact that a co-worker and likely friend's spouse is going to lose their job would be likely to color your objectivity. Kudos to Slate for at least some disclosure. Note that by not stating who these people actually are, they leave open that although the person may not have worked on the story, one of those editors might be the boss of one or more people working on the story. My guess is that if you looked at a lot of the coverage that has been blasting Peter Thiel, you will find a lot of conflicts of interest that are not being disclosed.