All of this sanguine Gawker romanticism is asinine. The site's writers mostly consisted of cut-rate fresh grads without the common sense to not violently shoot

All of this sanguine Gawker romanticism is asinine. The site's writers mostly consisted of cut-rate fresh grads without the common sense to not violently shoot their livelihoods in the head with a figurative 12 gauge shotgun. It would help if the people calling the shots weren't this same kind of stupid. Gawker was glad to play in the Big Boy Leagues until the Big Boys got involved, after which they screamed about "suppressing independent media" and acting like they never did any wrong. The constant attempts to blame Thiel/Hulk Hogan border on comedy. They don't seem to want to accept that their flagrant violation of somebody's privacy is what led to their fairly messy death, and not somebody else being the lesser person in an argument. I don't understand how anybody could think Gawker's swill would be at all helpful in arguing against Donald Trump's presidency. It's the exact same reporting that turned a lot of people on to him in the first place.