Tag Archives: Gawker

Gawker Identifies Boyfriend Of Closeted Fox News Anchor Shepard Smith

That Fox News anchor Shepard Smith is gay is fairly widely known, even though he has never publicly acknowledged it. He’s even appeared in Out Magazine‘s annual ranking of the most powerful gays in America. But after a gossip column earlier this week reported that Smith had blown up at a downtown Manhattan cocktail waitress while on a night out …

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The Show Musto Go On

Famed New York City nightlife columnist Michael Musto has landed on his feet after being canned from the Village Voice after three decades. Venerable Village Voice columnist Michael Musto — whose departure from the weekly this month caused outrage from devotees — tells us he’s starting a slew of new gigs. “I’ll be doing a weekly interview feature for Gawker, …

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Gawker: Toronto’s Mayor Smokes Crack

Gawker reporter John Cook says he’s seen the video.  The Toronto Star says they have too and promises that there is “much more to come.”  (Tipped by JMG reader David) UPDATE:  The Toronto Star has posted their story but emphasizes that they had “no way to verify the authenticity of the video.” Two Toronto Star reporters have viewed the video …

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Gawker Founder To Marry Boyfriend

Gawker Media founder Nick Denton will marry his boyfriend next year, according to the gossip column of the New York Daily News. The British media mogul got engaged to his actor boyfriend, Derrence Washington, over the weekend, with Denton telling us the two plan to marry in upstate New York next May. “This is the one event even I wouldn’t …

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Gawker Vs New York Post

Note the tiny question mark. Details.

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Gawker Publishes Dubya’s Email Address

To mark the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war, yesterday Gawker published the personal email address of former President George W. Bush.  The move has angered some Gawker commenters and Michele Malkin’s Twitchy, whose editors last night called Gawker “cretinous slime.”

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HomoQuotable – Christine Quinn

“I think the rules for getting a gun need to be tougher, but if you meet the rules, and you get a license in the legal way, and you have that license, I don’t think that should be printed in a newspaper. You have not done anything wrong. You’ve met the legal standard. Now do I think the legal standard …

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Fox Retaliates Against Gawker Founder

Yesterday Gawker published the names of everybody in New York City that holds a gun license. Fox News has retaliated by posting the personal cell phone number of openly gay Gawker founder Nick Denton.

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Gawker Publishes List Of All Licensed Gun Owners Living In NYC

Following a similar move by an upstate New York newspaper, yesterday Gawker published a searchable list of the people who have gun permits in New York City.  John Cook writes: Below is a 446-page list of every licensed gun owner in New York City. I obtained it from the NYPD two-and-a-half years ago via a Freedom of Information Law request. …

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Gawker Posts Huge Cache Of Bain Docs

Gawker has posted 954 pages of previously unseen and labyrinthine Bain financial documents which they say may reveal proof of Mitt Romney’s attempt to cloak his massive holdings in tax-proof domestic and offshore accounts. Bain isn’t a company so much as an intricate suite of steadily proliferating inter-related holding companies and limited partnerships, some based in Delaware and others in …

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Swimming Pool Of The Day

A glass bottom and 24 stories in the sky. I’d swim in it. It’s a Holiday Inn! In China.

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Gawker Offers Reward For Name Of Person Who Infected Magic Johnson

Saying that the new PBS documentary AIDS In Black America doesn’t tell the full story, the gossip site Gawker is offering a reward for the name of the person who infected Magic Johnson with HIV. For more than 20 years, Magic Johnson has been HIV positive—but it’s never been revealed who he contracted it from. Last night on PBS’s Frontline …

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This Is Why GOP Rep. Chris “Craigslist” Lee Resigned From Office In Such A Hurry

Once again, Gawker has the scoop: Lee’s sudden exit took many people by surprise. Hadn’t other members of Congress admitted to worse than an unconsummated, PG-13 flirtation and managed to stay in office? It turns out Lee may have had good reason to step out of the spotlight so quickly: It wasn’t just women that the Craigslist Congressman was hunting …

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Gawker Layout Fail

(Source) UPDATE: Gawker founder Nick Denton angrily tweeted me to note that his sites stopped using Sitemeter after the redesign was launched, therefore the above chart is useless. In a Friday New York Post story, he does acknowledge the plummeting number of page views.

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UPDATE: Rep. Christopher Lee (R) Resigns After Craigslist Adultery Scandal

UPDATE: GOP Rep. Chistopher Lee (NY) resigned tonight “effectively immediately” in the light of the scandal detailed below. Lee sent Fox News a short statement announcing his resignation and expressing regret “for the embarrassment caused to my wife and family.” Gawker has posted the Craigslist ad of married GOP Rep. Christopher Lee (R-NY), who has allegedly been using the site’s …

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I Am Not A Bush. I Am You.

Gawker has published a man’s anonymous account of a one-night stand with a hammered Christine O’Donnell on Halloween night 2007. But according to the author, he was too turned off by the sight of O’Donnell’s unwaxed vah-jay-jay to go through with any actual sex. So as far as we know, she really IS still a virgin. She’s a chaste Christian …

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Seriously, Gawker?

Today the above headline tops an article on Deadspin, the sports site owned by Gawker Media. According to author Drew Magary, NBA free agent LeBron James is a “goddamn cocksucker” for playing all the teams against each other in his bid to get the best deal. Homophobic language in sports is not surprising, but it IS a shocker coming from …

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American Apparel: We Don’t Hire Uglies

Yesterday Gawker dug up an internal memo from American Apparel directing managers to send in photos of potential new employees so that anybody not up to their model-pretty standards could be immediately weeded out. One former manager tells Gawker about the kind of black girls she was instructed to hire: “None of the trashy kind that come in, we don’t …

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Apple’s Revenge: Cops Raid Blogger’s Home Over iPhone Prototype Story

California police raided the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen on Friday after the tech blogger posted a story about the next generation iPhone. Chen had paid a source $5000 for the phone after it was accidentally left in a bar by an Apple researcher. Gizmodo.com editor Jason Chen came home Friday to find cops in his house, looking for …

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Katie Couric Drops It Like It’s Hot

Gawker has posted a gallery of photos of Katie Couric getting on down with her bad self. (And with another lady dancer.) Wingnuts will probably screech about this un-anchorly behavior, but Katie seems like a fun gal to take to a party.

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