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Reddit blocks Gawker in controversy over ‘creepshot’ photos
Free speech row after journalist sought to reveal identity of man running forums featuring extreme adult content Blog network Gawker has found itself engaged in a vicious exchange with users of content sharing and recommendations website Reddit’s sleazier sub-forums after a journalist began investigating extreme adult content on the site.…
Why Gawker’s Docu-Drop Matters
Gawker, of all publications, has obtained 950 pages of documents that spell out the Byzantine holdings and corporate shells that Mitt Romney uses to avoid having to pay a fair tax rate on his obscene amounts of wealth. They’ve published the documents and briefly described them, but there’s a lot…
Israeli fashion magazine mocks the ultra-Orthodox with provocative photos
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Haredi sect has become a center of controversy for its harassment of women and girls and attempts to force women to ride at the backs of buses, segregated from the male passengers. Now the Israeli fashion magazine BelleMode is striking back with a photo spread in which scantily-clad…
How on earth could someone make you feel bad for Christine O’Donnell?
I suppose I should say something about the piece that Gawker ran from a dude that claimed he got drunk and made out with Christine O’Donnell once, though actual sexual intercourse didn’t happen, making the title somewhat misleading. Some thoughts: 1) If their intention was to smear O’Donnell, I would…
Wingnuts approximate “clever” while threatening the President
Via Spencer, Gawker reports on a growing movement of Christians using religious “jokes” in order to call for the assassination of Obama. The “joke” is this T-shirt, citing a verse from the Bible that says, “May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.” As Gawker explains,…
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