Did Clickbait Kill Buzzfeed and the Digital Media Era?
Offline with Jon Favreau
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The Left-Wing Extremism of Gawker
I actually thought about that with how you wrote about Gawker. Like to me, the attitude that fueled Gawker and Denton at the beginning was very like, let's take on institutions, smash hierarchies. And there is a sort of very literal sense in which the logical conclusion of that is sex tapes. I mean, it was like they were obviously playing with fire. But yeah, I always had an issue with that because, you know, I think they did some good stuff.
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