...and Adrien Chen, a former top Gawker journalist, wrote a NASTY piece on cripplemoot, writing that he's "only a torso perched on an electric wheelchair" with "deformed bones [and] shriveled legs".
https://archive.today/FpKkn
I'll go over the rest of what you posted at some other point, but the actual article reads:
Another dancer watched the celebration in amazement. “He’s only one year old?” she exclaimed, pointing to Brennan. Brennan does physically resemble a child, if not an infant. He was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a disorder characterized by brittle and deformed bones. He has a startlingly tiny body and a high-pitched voice. At first glance, you see only a torso perched on an electric wheelchair, since his shriveled legs rest tucked underneath his body. But as the sharp features of his normal-size face reveal, he is in fact a 20-year-old man.
If I should expect misinformed or purposefully altered quotes like this from the rest of your evidence that Gawker, a huge company made up of smaller companies run by dozens of people ranging all across the spectrum of respectful and fair writers to people that borderline shouldn't have a job, should be shut down, then please tell me now before I have to sift through all your sources.
I don't doubt that there's some bad writing, I don't doubt that you don't agree with everything every publication prints or publishes, but for the love of god open your mind up to the possibility that the world isn't black and white, and people with different opinions aren't the enemy. You can disagree with people without hating them.
Gawker are SERIOUS bullies...
http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/gawker_bullying.php
Oh my god, Sam Biddle? You're pinning your opinion on a company because of Sam loving Biddle?
The rest of this article has some merit, Gizmodo is mostly the only Gawker site I get news from, and they do realize that the entire company isn't bad. However most cases are pretty weak for saying Gawker is a "bully".
Gawker is being sued because they do not pay their interns.
http://www.businessmanagementdaily.com/41201/gawker-is-latest-target-of-unpaid-intern-class-action
Have you never heard of an unpaid internship? They're quite common and only recently have they become a big issue. I don't agree with what Gawker is doing, but I'm sure you'd rather be interning at a great game studio then flipping burgers for a living. On the job experience is fantastic, but I guess only if you have the means to survive while you do it, which clearly some of these interns in the class-action could no longer do.
Gawker listed sponsors that do not actually advertise them, which is a textbook case of fraud.
http://adland.tv/adnews/gawker-toxic-brands-who-partner-them/1291467968
I'd really like a less colored article about this topic, and I'd like to see their sponsor page now, though I can't seem to find it. Regardless, that's pretty serious if it is true, and the topic of Sam Biddle losing them partners is a whole other thing. The fact that that man isn't fired yet astounds me.
Gawker just signed a 15-year lease for a massive new $75 million office in the heart of NYC. Earliest chance to cancel is 2024.
http://www.businessinsider.com/gawkers-new-offices-2014-9
What's the problem here?
Gawker supports child enthusiasm:
https://archive.today/i1Njv
Find me where in that article it says that that writer supports child enthusiasm. I'm interested to know.
The old adage is that the true mark of a society is how it treats the weakest in its ranks. Blacks, women, Latinos, gays and lesbians, and others are still in no way on wholly equal footing in America. But they're also not nearly as lowly and cursed as men attracted to children. One imagines that if Jesus ever came to Earth, he'd embrace the poor, the blind, the lepers, and, yes, the child enthusiasts. As a self-professed "progressive," when I think of the world I'd like to live in, I like to imagine that one day I'd be OK with a man like Terry moving next door to me and my children. I like to think that I could welcome him in for dinner, break bread with him, and offer him the same blessings he's offered me time and again. And what hurts to admit, even knowing all I know now, is that I'm not positive I could do that.
I'd like to think that you just got all these links from some other poor misinformed person, who apparently is dispensing this "evidence" that Gawker is an evil company with some end goal in mind that the entire company will go down in flames.
I just went through all of it, and the only problems with Gawker, as a media parent company, a company that basically manages smaller companies, the only problem I can see is Sam Biddle's tweets. That's it. Next.
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