The thing is, in the episode, Jesse said that Gawker had been sanctimonious. A LOT of things could be said about Gawker but they were never sanctimonious. They could be downright cruel, but I do not think they were ever sanctimonious.
Though to be fair, I started reading them in 2003/2004 when it was publishing world gossip. I stopped re…
The thing is, in the episode, Jesse said that Gawker had been sanctimonious. A LOT of things could be said about Gawker but they were never sanctimonious. They could be downright cruel, but I do not think they were ever sanctimonious.
Though to be fair, I started reading them in 2003/2004 when it was publishing world gossip. I stopped reading before 2010 for sure but eould check it out occasionally.
And JEZEBEL - I started reading it in 2007 when it started. Stopped in 2011 or do because it was getting Batshit. Rhen started again I font remember. I havent read it in a long time because they are insane now
Maybe we use the words differently but the Gawker brand seems really sanctimonious to me — they're constantly insisting how terrible everyone but themselves are. They're good and pure and should be protected from any consequences, but their enemies are basically evil and you should feel free to do literally anything in your attempts to hurt them. Thus why they cross lines so much — outing people and sharing revenge porn and lying as a journalist simply can't be bad when you're a Good One and you are fighting Bad Ones.
We are definitely using sanctimonious in the same way. I just do not recall Gawker being sanctimonious. I mean Nick Dent ( I hope I got the name right) could be super sanctimonious about gay people coming out (hence outing Peter Thuel)
But as I recall Gawker was pretty vicious to everyone.
The thing is, in the episode, Jesse said that Gawker had been sanctimonious. A LOT of things could be said about Gawker but they were never sanctimonious. They could be downright cruel, but I do not think they were ever sanctimonious.
Though to be fair, I started reading them in 2003/2004 when it was publishing world gossip. I stopped reading before 2010 for sure but eould check it out occasionally.
And JEZEBEL - I started reading it in 2007 when it started. Stopped in 2011 or do because it was getting Batshit. Rhen started again I font remember. I havent read it in a long time because they are insane now
Maybe we use the words differently but the Gawker brand seems really sanctimonious to me — they're constantly insisting how terrible everyone but themselves are. They're good and pure and should be protected from any consequences, but their enemies are basically evil and you should feel free to do literally anything in your attempts to hurt them. Thus why they cross lines so much — outing people and sharing revenge porn and lying as a journalist simply can't be bad when you're a Good One and you are fighting Bad Ones.
We are definitely using sanctimonious in the same way. I just do not recall Gawker being sanctimonious. I mean Nick Dent ( I hope I got the name right) could be super sanctimonious about gay people coming out (hence outing Peter Thuel)
But as I recall Gawker was pretty vicious to everyone.