After a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, the settlement of $140million in favour of Hogan ended it.The verdict would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. Still furious at an article that had outed him ten years previously, and increasingly disgusted at Gawker's unscrupulous reporting methods, Thiel had spent nearly a decade meticulously plotting a conspiracy that would lead to the demise of Gawker and its founder, Nick Denton. But luck had nothing to do with it.Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and billionaire investor, had masterminded the whole thing. After countless other lawsuits it seemed that Gawker had finally run out of luck.
In 2016, one of the giants of modern journalism fell: Gawker Media, infamous for saying what other outlets wouldn't say, was sued for publishing Hulk Hogan's sex tape, lost the case and went bust. A computer can’t practice secrecy or misdirection, a computer can’t feel an urge to remake the world.Print Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
The cleanest or at least the clearest lesson is in the power of secrecy, of coordination, and of pushing past those situations where “nothing can be done.” In a time when computers are replacing many basic human functions, it will eventually come to be that audaciousness, vision, courage, creativity, a sense of justice-these will be the only tasks left to us. this sense of powerlessness over our future and a naïve certainty that the good guys always win If you want to have a different world, it is on you to make it so. Conspiracy, then, is a story about what happens when that power is reversed.
While Trust Me, I’m Lying is told from the journalist’s perspective, Conspiracy is told from the subject’s perspective, of how journalism is about raw power, and it is the subject’s role to be subjugated by the journalist’s power over them. Daulerio ran a tape of a college-age girl having sex on the dirty floor of a bar bathroom, and when the girl begs repeatedly over email for him to take it down, he tells her simply, “I’m sure it’s embarrassing, but these things do pass.” They found that while he was editor in chief, A. As an example of one of Gawker’s misdeeds: If you’re familiar with Ryan Holiday’s first book, Trust Me, I’m Lying, you’ll know how corrupt and unethical Gawker is. This book is a paean for definite optimism, and a call to take patient, considered action.
0 kommentar(er)
