If I understand the odds correctly, it’s about 180 million to 1 that you’re reading Gawker instead of this. But if you are reading this, you may not be aware that there’s a serious suits-versus-shirts contretemps at No Shame Central, after the business boys insisted that the site pull an article about, well, let me let the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple tell it, in a post headed “Conde Nast exec story: Gawker is keeping its sleaze game in shape”:
“David Geithner, the chief financial officer of Condé Nast, had made arrangements with a gay porn star/escort to rendezvous on a trip to Chicago, Gawker alleges.”
Not only is Dave chief financial officer of Condé Nast, he’s also the brother of not my favorite guy but probably not making it with gay porn stars on a regular basis Tim Geithner. So we’re talking serious money here. At the same time, Gawker did not pull a sex video of the wrestler formerly known as Hulk Hogan and in fact is contesting its First Amendment right to run such “news” in court.
Now, according to New York magazine, Gawker Media executive editor Tommy Craggs and Gawker.com editor-in-chief Max Read have resigned. Who’s up for “Hawter’nGawker.com”?
