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In Defense of a Gawker Media Writer (No, Really!)

I follow Erin Ryan on Twitter and I’m pretty familiar with her sense of humor. I also did a great interview with her before CPAC this year. She saw fit to give a Breitbart contributor and former CPAC Director nearly 2,000 words to talk about the conservative movement on Jezebel. How bad can she be?

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The Ten Most Heinously Unpleasant Gawker Writers, Ranked

Gawker Media is coming under some well-deserved fire this week for an appalling failure of judgment and basic ethical standards. Despite the site’s professed commitment to social justice, it cruelly outed a private citizen, becoming party to a gay extortion racket in the process, for no reason other than its own vile amusement.

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Gawker Editorial Staff Joins Writers Guild of America, East

The editorial staff at Gawker Media has become the first digital newsroom in the country to unionize, with 75% of voters agreeing to be represented by the Writers Guild of America, East if collective bargaining should be necessary. Gawker’s staff said they will be “determining what we want to bargain for; forming a bargaining committee; and negotiating a contract.”

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SHOCKER: HuffPo Attacks Texas Cop for Doing His Job

Following the release of a YouTube video regarding a police incident in McKinney, Texas, the Huffington Post quickly jumped to conclusions that police were in the wrong. Police responded to a call about a large group of teenagers at a private neighborhood pool where they did not live. Police also had calls indicating fights in progress.

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Gawker Claims Lena Dunham’s Alleged Rapist Is a Democrat

Using an early book proposal submitted by Lena Dunham that contains vastly different details about her alleged rapist than what was eventually published in her memoir “Not That Kind of Girl,” Gawker claimed Tuesday to have found Dunham’s alleged rapist

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