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Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:36 PM Author: flickering blue rehab (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31246971) |
Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:43 PM Author: Onyx Preventive Strike and free speech dies with it ljl
jk ofc
weird/funny to see ppl like glenn greenwald trolling for gawker now |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:46 PM Author: flickering blue rehab i mean im no fan of pete thiel but it seems to me that everyone misses the point that just because the suit didn't make headway before doesn't mean that it wasn't legit
unless they really think that thiel bought off the judge and jury? |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:58 PM Author: Onyx Preventive Strike nobody actually defends gawker or explains where exactly the money truly entered into the process (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247139) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:00 PM Author: flickering blue rehab (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247155) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:48 PM Author: chocolate unholy milk I never understood this whole thing where exposing private media obtained under questionable means is protected by the 1st amendment (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247050) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:00 PM Author: Coiffed trailer park gaming laptop can you sue because someone gossiped about you?
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:10 AM Author: Underhanded address reading party You can make out a viable claim for defamation in some cases (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247692) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:35 AM Author: emerald maniacal headpube whorehouse (not a lawyer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249308) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:46 PM Author: fuchsia glittery foreskin Your next, HUFFPO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247037) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:47 PM Author: flickering blue rehab (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247042) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 7:26 AM Author: beady-eyed ape (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248933) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:08 PM Author: Underhanded address reading party "The greatest compliment one could ever pay to a Gawker writer is fearlessness—the willingness to say what needed to be said irrespective of the consequences."
*shows a girl raped in a bar*
*plays a leaked cuckold sex tape*
*outs a private gay dude with a family to the world - twice*
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:10 PM Author: Onyx Preventive Strike it needed to be said. powerful people needed to be taken down a notch. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247241) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:11 PM Author: Underhanded address reading party Pretty close.
"We believed that broader access to confidential information, to the real story, would constrain the powerful and liberate the oppressed." |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 7:53 AM Author: chartreuse shrine haunted graveyard presumably none of denton's ch 11 docs will be filed under seal, then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248979) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:25 AM Author: purple odious area private investor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249247) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:51 PM Author: flickering blue rehab (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247563) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:55 PM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker Peter Thiel is the biggest piece of shit in the world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247588) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:08 AM Author: Underhanded address reading party Don't ever fight back kids! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247674) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:11 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker That's right -- starting a passive-aggressive war with someone who told the truth shows great character. Money helps. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247698) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:13 AM Author: Underhanded address reading party A business model built on invading privacy and humiliating others. Tell me about character. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247715) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:15 AM Author: 180 range hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247732) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:18 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker This is not an either/or.
Gawker and Thiel both suck and have slimy, self-serving ethics. Thiel just sucks worse. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:26 AM Author: Underhanded address reading party i have no idea what value you think it's serving to invade privacy at that level. There is no value in having the freedom to do that and our society has correctly determined that maybe his victims have some rights after all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247806) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:28 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker You're really going off the rails here.
No one, including myself, thinks a Hulk Hogan sex tape adds value to society. That is totally and ridiculously beside the point. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:30 AM Author: Underhanded address reading party Spoken like a guy without a good defense (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247846) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:41 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker What am I supposed to be defending? The outrageous claim that it's possible Thiel and Gawker are *both* morally bankrupt? I suppose you can chalk that up to a matter of opinion.
Other than that, whatever words you're trying to put in my mouth don't warrant a defense from me. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:53 AM Author: Underhanded address reading party It's not that difficult to grasp.
There is a first amendment that protects press freedom. There are limits. One of those limits is privacy, because it's widely considered to be an indignity to show someone in vulnerable and intimate moments without their consent, like when they are taking a shit, getting their dick sucked, or getting fucked in the ass in a pile of piss on a bathroom floor.
Gawker decided that it was going to ignore those limits anyway and laughed at a court when it told it to stop. And your problem is not with the bully humiliating others for ad revenue, it's with a guy who paid one of his victims legal bills.
It would be different if you took issue with Thiel because he had financed a bunch of frivolous litigation to tie up gawkers legal department and silence it from reporting news that is protected by the first amendment. But what he did was made it possible for someone who had viable claims to bring them in court. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:58 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker Two federal courts ruled that the Hogan story was newsworthy, dumdum.
"And your problem is not with the bully humiliating others for ad revenue, it's with a guy who paid one of his victims legal bills."
I have no idea where you got the idea that I think cyberbullying is ok., See what I mean about putting words in my mouth? (PROTIP: That is actually a sign that you don't have an argument).
In any event, why did Thiel pay Hogan's legal bills? Are they old Stanford drinking buddies? Cousins? Was Thiel taking a courageous moral stand for decency? No. He was getting back at gawker in a petty and cowardly vendetta which was totally personal and devoid of any larger principles. The fact that what Gawker said about him was true, and widely known, makes this 1000x worse. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:02 AM Author: Underhanded address reading party Which of those two courts did the gawker trial take place in, dum dum? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248115) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:14 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker This isn't the first time Hogan sued gawker over the sex tape. The latest (Thiel-financed) version took place in a sympathetic local court where Hogan is a hometown hero, and it was carefully planned to increase the odds that Hogan would prevail in a way that would maximize damage to Gawker. Hogan bankrupting gawker wasn't some great victory for justice. In fact, justice had nothing to do with it in either Thiel's motives or the ultimate outcome of the case (in which the damages were astronomically, unjustly high). It was a calculated move by Thiel to use Hogan as a pawn in his vendetta against Gawker. I never said Thiel wasn't smart. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248196) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 8:10 AM Author: Underhanded address reading party So fucking what that he had a smart litigation strategy??. Thiel is now an American hero. Denton and Daulerio deserve an even worse fate. Burn this motherfuckng "journalism" straight to the ground. What a fucked up pervers society we live in. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249005) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:12 AM Author: Ocher Temple Degenerate sorry, no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247706) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:17 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker I'm generaly not in favor of outting people, but I am not categorically against it.
In Thiel's case, he was not only out to anyone who cared to know, but he had billions of dollars worth of fuck you money that would protect him from the consequences (if any) that a normal gay guy would experience being involuntarily outted. Was it shitty of Gawker to out him? Yes. Did Thiel turn around and react in a way that exposed him as being even shittier? Unfortunately, yes. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:19 AM Author: 180 range hunting ground O what a rigorous ethical defense (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247753) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:22 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker O what a pointless post. Get lost. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247773) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:23 AM Author: Heady Telephone Pozpig Uh no, not at all. You just sound like a butthurt bitch.
Thiel didn't force Gawker to act atrociously, in instance after instance. He didn't force them to thumb their noses at the court, after receiving a court order to take down the Hogan sex tape. They had a massive amount of hubris and brought all their problems on themselves. Thiel simply provided the means to finance justice.
Funny how the ACLU routinely does what Thiel did (fund causes they believe in), yet I doubt you feel the same towards them. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:25 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker "Thiel simply provided the means to finance justice."
Hmmmm....and who asked Thiel to do that?
Did you really just compare Thiel to the ACLU? |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:27 AM Author: Heady Telephone Pozpig OMG did I really do that? In 2016?
Yes I did, and the comparison is apt. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:29 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker Grow up. You sound like a 12 year old girl in both style and "substance". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247843) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:31 AM Author: Heady Telephone Pozpig Says the butthurt bitch, angrily lashing out at those ITT who applaud Thiel, and pretending there are logical reasons behind his pained emotional anger.
Maybe when you grow up you'll realize how he is a lot closer to the ACLU than you'd like to admit. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:42 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker Maybe I'll grow up when I call people "butthurt bitch" every few minutes. Who can say? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247953) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:01 AM Author: Plum Impertinent Giraffe Hospital Stfu you low IQ child molester (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248105) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:14 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker no u (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248200) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:15 AM Author: Heady Telephone Pozpig You don't need to call "people" that; only use the description when richly deserved. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248209) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:19 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker You're just stroking your little clit now. Not interested. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248239) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 7:47 AM Author: wild sneaky criminal meetinghouse You are really getting pwnd here worse than usual (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248973) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 8:04 AM Author: fuchsia glittery foreskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248993) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 8:42 AM Author: mahogany incel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249096) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:11 AM Author: electric messiness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249188) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:36 AM Author: Onyx Preventive Strike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249313) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:36 AM Author: emerald maniacal headpube whorehouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249320) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 10:24 AM Author: Heady Telephone Pozpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249603) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:09 PM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker Yeah, no. Look at the cast of tards in this thread. Uh oh...someone called me "butthurt" pwnpwn pwn!!1! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31250254) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:24 AM Author: Wine forum antidepressant drug long live the King (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247786) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:00 AM Author: floppy lodge french chef sry hella, but Gwaker perverted whatever little moral high ground journalism had left, turned it into a fucking hack-a-thon click-bait, gay-outing- bizarrely socially conservative at times shit show, it needed to die in a fire, and thank god it did
they became what they hated, they deserve this fate. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:19 AM Author: Swashbuckling Brunch Boistinker Does only Gawker deserve this fate or do other tabloids? How about media outlets in general, all of which have perennial ethical problems. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248235) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 7:28 AM Author: beady-eyed ape All media must be annihilated. They have lost their moorings (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248937) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 8:04 AM Author: fuchsia glittery foreskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248994) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 7:25 AM Author: flickering blue rehab (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248929) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 7:28 AM Author: beady-eyed ape Social conservative? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248936) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 8:43 AM Author: Doobsian buff black woman locale Link to when Gawker went socially conservative. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249102) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 4:53 PM Author: bronze lascivious alpha when they started to out gay men who had a reasonable (very reasonable, extremely reasonable is more like it) right to privacy
when they started to become media gatekeepers of the elite--they were not fighting for the "little guy" anymore--they were basically a clique in a large MFH media orgy and reveled in gossip and drama, the kind of way Politico sometimes acts in DC
they were at some point pioneers, they were also very publicly interest focused at a time, but like everything, it crumbled under the weight of their own self-righteousness and self-interest
this doesn't even get to the histrionics they exhibited whenever challenged for legitimate ethical lapses; they put themselves as teh moral arbiters of truth and justice in the universe which is a bunch of horse shit
also fuck Jezebel |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:23 AM Author: cerebral poppy chapel Npr coverage didn't even mention they outted Theil, just that it was coverage he didn't like. Fucking frauds. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249241) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:38 AM Author: emerald maniacal headpube whorehouse outting gays is, like most things, only wrong when it comes from the right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249328) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 4:22 PM Author: 180 range hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31251969) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:27 AM Author: carnelian sanctuary Thiel and Hulk Hogan - American heroes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249263) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 10:42 AM Author: khaki hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249708) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 10:44 AM Author: Heady Telephone Pozpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249719) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 11:19 AM Author: opaque galvanic generalized bond Still, the Times reporter asked, what were my own regrets? I told him, finally, that I had worked at Gawker Media for five years, and that all I could say was that nothing in that time was as shameful to me as a story the Times had put on its front page the month before, slanting the results of a study to argue that police weren’t really disproportionately killing black people. I would have been ashamed, I said, if we had run that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249959) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 4:22 PM Author: 180 range hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31251971) |