DISQUS

former gawkerite · 1 year ago

I find it sickening that Nick and everyone else at Gawker cloak their shameless stunts for attention as being part of some sort of grand journalistic tradition. They could care less about journalistic ethics -- believe me, they through those out the window whenever there are page views to be had.

mathewi · 1 year ago

I'll put you down under "Denton = evil" then, shall I?

David "Lefty" Schlesinger · 1 year ago

When someone can't be relied upon to behave themselves decently with even moderate consistency, then I'd say their "evilness" outweighs their "goodness". Looking a Gawker's recent antics (sabotage, invasion of privacy, etc.), I'd have to assume that any goodness was pretty much inadvertent, simply a consequence of the Law of Large Numbers...

antje · 1 year ago

You know, in all seriousness, Nick Denton is a smart guy who knows how to find people's weak spots. And - he will exploit them. But when he was writing for ValleyWag I know a lot of people were concerned about being targeted by him - mostly because he was so often spot on, and cruel about whatever he was skewering.

But - Silicon Valley is a bit too full of self importance sometimes. I worked on a lot of events with a lot speakers - most of them wonderful as indviduals - but often you put them in a room full of their colleagues and boy oh boy the social and life-as-a-bigger-picture limitations are painfully obvious. Denton threw some oil on that rain parade and maybe the valley needs someone poking at it when it starts to lean towards the too self-righteousness side.

mathewi · 1 year ago

I agree, Antje -- sometimes it is refreshing. Why is why I'm so conflicted :-)

antje · 1 year ago

Frankly I can't imagine how bad it might be without him, so I'm glad he and his crew are all there taking the piss out of everything; keeps people on their toes.... still wouldn't want to be on his bad side tho!

Paul · 1 year ago

There are some just deserts being served here by an apparent once or former Denton insider.

http://nickguidodenton.tumblr.com/