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> There is a difference between journalism and blogging. Unfortunately, it's a gap that gets wider each day. Really? Because the users on HN, Reddit, and the i

> There is a difference between journalism and blogging. Unfortunately, it's a gap that gets wider each day. Really? Because the users on HN, Reddit, and the internet as a whole bemoaned the shut down of Gawker by Thiel, when he went after them for outing him and Hulk Hogan. The whole user base said Thiel was attacking journalism, when all he did was shutdown a gossip blog.

hbosch 9y ago
>the internet as a whole bemoaned the shut down of Gawker by Thiel Really? It's my recollection that most of the communities I'm involved in applauded and relished in the shutdown of Gawker. I do believe there were some tangential worries that meandered around the forest of "freedom of speech"/"-of the press" but as the dust settled I think all parties realized those worries were, as a consensus, ill-informed.