THE SCREENING ROOM
COURT IN THE ACT: A sex tape starring Hulk Hogan led to Gawker’s demise.
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THE GOSSIP WEBSITE Gawker was nasty, condescending, petty, trivial, too cool for school, annoyingly progressive, stunningly retrograde, obsessed with celebrity, contemptuous of celebrity, a tormentor of Fox News and The New York Times alike, too cynical, not real journalism, a waste of time and the reason they hate us, whoever they are.