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    Andrew MochulskyJ.K. Trotter
    7/20/15 12:10pm

    Breach of the editorial firewall: unacceptable, warranting resignation.

    The actual subject matter in question: lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      giant enemy turtleAndrew Mochulsky
      7/20/15 12:36pm

      Got to say despite my distaste for the subject matter of the original post, people are absolutely right to be upset because if they did it once they will do it again. Next time the story could be important to you.

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      WeedszacAndrew Mochulsky
      7/20/15 12:40pm

      Good riddance to butthurt assholes.

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    Paul DimitrovJ.K. Trotter
    7/20/15 12:35pm

    I keep hearing people refer to the outing of Geithner—a man with a wife and children surreptitiously seeking sex with a male escort, let’s be clear—as “immoral.”

    How the fuck is this the case?

    He’s a high placed executive with Conde Nast, and brother to the former treasury secretary.

    Here’s the deal: if you’re a member of America’s ruling elite—a very small and incestuous clique, to be sure—you’re a public figure and deserve outing.

    Period.

    Taking this post own was a bad, bad call.

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      burnbabyburnTWOPaul Dimitrov
      7/20/15 12:56pm

      So because someone is employed and has a brother who used to be important, journalists should be accessories to blackmail to dig into his sex life? How do you know he and his wife don’t have an open relationship sexually? It’s far from uncommon, and Gawker never even attempted to find this out. And if that’s the case, are parents supposed to be upfront with their kids about their sexual habits?

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      Paul DimitrovburnbabyburnTWO
      7/20/15 12:59pm

      Oh, there are definitely issues with editorials lack of oversight.

      But, at the end of the day, we live in an increasingly hereditary oligarchy in this country. In that sense anyone who is a member of said oligarchy, IMO, is fair game.

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    bruunoJ.K. Trotter
    7/20/15 12:01pm

    Adios. Editorial freedom is a great thing but when it is so terribly abused like it was last week then those editors need to be replaced.

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      meatwadfbruuno
      7/20/15 12:05pm

      I’m sure that even if he hadn’t resigned, he would have been “asked” to step down.

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      LabbyRatbruuno
      7/20/15 12:08pm

      THIS.

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    cuntybawsJ.K. Trotter
    7/20/15 12:03pm

    These are noble words, and brave actions. They speak to an integrity and refusal to compromise that I just wish had more connection with the post that started it all.

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      amgarrecuntybaws
      7/20/15 12:16pm

      Right. This is just not the case you take a stand on.

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      cuntybawsamgarre
      7/20/15 12:18pm

      I will once again quote a far funnier commenter than I, who said of the Hogan story (but it has a huge resonance here), that they picked a strange hill to die on.

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    teroteroteroJ.K. Trotter
    7/20/15 12:03pm

    They really are entirely consumed about internal power dynamics instead of even touching on the immorality of the piece itself. It’s so hard to grasp that they remain so oblivious to how everyone else sees this debacle.

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      OhComeTheFuckOnteroterotero
      7/20/15 12:06pm

      Exactly. Taking no personal responsibility, just a bunch of self-serving whinging.

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      Gawker Cronyismteroterotero
      7/20/15 12:08pm

      It’s harder to grasp why they call themselves honest, talented, etc etc etc etc etc.

      Or why Max Read thinks he’s ever going to be an editor again.

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    OhYeahWellIJ.K. Trotter
    7/20/15 11:58am

    Caity’s still here though, right?

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      allie.kattOhYeahWellI
      7/20/15 12:07pm

      That was my question too. She's all I care about.

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      rudi_freudeOhYeahWellI
      7/20/15 12:11pm

      I don’t believe I’ve seen Weaver’s writing of late.

      I understand she’s in editorial but I can’t shake the suspicion that only her spectre haunts these once-hallowed halls.

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    CorbettoJ.K. Trotter
    7/20/15 12:51pm

    OK; so here’s the thing: What was the alternative that Craggs and Read would have proposed to deal with the fallout of the original post??

    For more than 12 hours of the commentariat being up in arms over the inappropriate posting, NOT ONE EDITOR OR WRITER came to the amazing, revolutionary, awe-inspiring KINJA experience to explain the decision, why it was relevant... or hell, even to disagree with the publishing. EDITORIAL went into silent running.

    That’s pretty damned shameful.

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      PobbleCorbetto
      7/20/15 1:07pm

      OK; so here’s the thing: What was the alternative that Craggs and Read would have proposed to deal with the fallout of the original post?

      Something to do with a Delorean, a nuclear fusion device and Michael J Fox, I think.

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      AConsolePheasantCorbetto
      7/20/15 1:15pm

      Criminally underrated comment, not enough stars in the sky, etc - although if it were my buns in the fire, this would qaulify as a full-on “pull the blanket over my face and sleep until the weekend” level-event.

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    Cheech WizardJ.K. Trotter
    7/20/15 12:05pm

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    There’s ads on Gawker? Huh. Learn something new every day.

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      strattaJ.K. Trotter
      7/20/15 12:05pm

      So, the resignations...right result, wrong reasons. Craggs and Read should be resigning because they made a bad call *and* they refused to own up to it.

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        Cstrife16stratta
        7/20/15 12:10pm

        And we still have yet to get any semblance of an apology from anyone.

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        ContractFederale21stratta
        7/20/15 12:13pm

        Personally, if the executives had any shred of decency, they’d reject the resignations and just outright terminate the both of them. This may already be the case, but (hopefully) we’ll never know.

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      Arctic16J.K. Trotter
      7/20/15 12:15pm

      As the fawning internet lurker I am, I say godspeed to you both. I’ll be real, the fact that Gawker may have outed some executive of another company...I really don’t give a fuck. This isn’t The New York Times, my standards are low. All I know is, stop fucking around because if this whole Gawker thing goes under, I’ll probably end up on reddit. And, frankly, what’s worse? Other people’s lives ruined, or me having to go to reddit? I say keep ruining people’s lives!

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        David Tennant's EgoArctic16
        7/20/15 12:25pm

        Your standards might be low, but so are a court’s standards of defamation and libel for against a private citizen. If you want Gawker to stay afloat it’s this kind of stuff you should give a fuck about.

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        Gold LionArctic16
        7/20/15 12:31pm

        Agree, I don’t give a rat’s ass about what happened to Conde Nast’s CFO. All of this moral outrage has been absolutely bizzare. Gawker is what Gawker is and it has never been some sort of classy journalistic publication, let’s be real. The man was cheating, and then it was revealed, that is all there is to it.

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