Denton sold Fleshbot in 2012.) Far from threatening to bring the house down, it helped solidify Mr. Interestingly, one of Gawker Media’s first big hits was a Paris Hilton sex video, which ran on its Fleshbot site in 2003.
I’ve at times been part of the pack, especially during the early part of my career, which included gossip-writing stints at The New York Post and The Daily News. I do not come at the question from the monastery.
But I was after a bigger question: Have we finally found the bottom, or more generously, the limit? After decades of journalistic scandal-mongering, each more intrusive than the last - and then juiced by the Internet - was the jury in Florida that ruled so decisively against Gawker speaking for the entire culture in saying, “Enough”? I visited those offices last week in part to find out whether the $140 million in civil awards against Gawker, for showing a private sex tape starring the retired wrestler Hulk Hogan, would be its undoing. They were paid for in secrets, exposed with a joyful ferocity that enriched Gawker’s founders and helped redefine how far our reality-TV culture could go to satisfy its appetite for gossip and news about the famous, the powerful and, increasingly, just the mildly interesting. They’re all glass and steel, clean lines and modern fixtures. The brand-new Gawker Media offices in downtown Manhattan are the bomb, as in great.
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