Journalism
"There goes that pushy cookie..."
But the site's decision to remove the post raises questions for new media companies.
The people who work there should be ashamed.
Gawker manufactured a story that accused someone of rape -- not to mention other intimate partner abuse -- apparently for clicks and giggles, then delivered it over four posts spaced more than a month apart. The author has since admitted that this was all baseless.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Veteran journalist Marlene Sanders was also the first woman to become a vice president at ABC News.
Most Democrats want to get U.S. troops the hell out of Afghanistan (outside of Official Washington, most Republicans agree.) But, the story goes, these Democrats have to have an "alternative," and the "alternative" is drone strikes.
Dangerous in a good way -- these are the financial media players who are making things very difficult for the establishment to maintain the status quo.
I'm an earthquake survivor who's seen the big-time reporters come and go. They're doing such a stellar job and I want to help out, so I've written this handy guide for when they come back on the one-year anniversary of the January quake.
Looking back five years on the Michael Jackson trial, I see a media out of control. The sheer amount of propaganda, bias, distortion and misinformation is almost beyond comprehension.