Comments on: Gawker’s Nick Denton: We Don’t Fact Check, We Aim For Truth Over Time. UPDATED: Gawker Bought the Exclusive on The Balloon Hoax Story

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:40:50 +0000

[...] Gawker’s Nick Denton: We Don’t Fact Check, We Do Rip Off Magazines [...]

By: DLS

DLS — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:08:36 +0000

“We aim to get the truth over time. The verification model is post-publication rather than pre-publication. Our readers correct us and we apologize and we change it. We don’t have time to check it all before.”

He and his product are garbage. They are also, despite what some “new media” bubble-brains may wish to believe, no different than the liberal media, with their sensationalism as well as routine overt liberal bias and more (“crusader journalism”). The Internet is simply another, newer media. The message is in no way fundamentally, much less remarkably, different, something overlooked (why?) by the superficially-minded and otherwise besmitten.

By: skylights

skylights — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:54:39 +0000

I don't see Gawker as anything more than a humorous, snarky gossip site. A news site? Not so much. I visit it for a laugh, not for news.

I read the New Yorker too. There's room for everyone on the Web.

By: Kynes

Kynes — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:05:56 +0000

It's quite obvious: Gawker's goal is not to inform, not to report, not to analyze. Their goal is to make money, and on the internet Clicks Per Minute = Money. How do you get CPM? By publishing tabloid, flashy stories that can be anything as long as they get attention. And thus we witness the fall of informative journalism on the internet.