1/7/2024 0 Comments Conde nast gawker![]() ![]() The CFO they outed is not a public figure. The reasons for regarding the story as deeply repugnant are self-evident. in shared revulsion.” One Gawker writer, Adam Weinstein, publicly distanced himself from the sleaze. The article’s 1,000+ comments from Gawker’s own readers overwhelmingly expressed disgust, and as The New Republic’s Jeet Heer observed, the “debacle” is “uniting people from all across the political & cultural spectrum . Gawker’s story, written by Jordan Sargent, instantly and almost universally provoked unbridled scorn, and rightfully so. I don’t want to reward them or contribute in any way to this disgrace by linking to it: Google it if you must. ![]() Gawker completed the final step of the blackmail plot by publishing the text messages between the two and investigating and confirming the identity of the client, all while protecting the identity of the blackmailing escort. ![]() When the escort discovered the real-life identity of his prospective client – he’s the brother of a former top Obama official – he began blackmailing the CFO by threatening to expose him unless he used his political connections to help the escort in a housing discrimination case he had against a former landlord. The story had no purpose other than to reveal that the male, married-to-a-woman Chief Financial Officer of a magazine company – basically an executive accountant – hired a male escort. Last night, Gawker published one of the sleaziest and most repugnant articles seen in quite some time from an outlet of its size and stature. ![]()
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