![]() ![]() No matter what good reporting Fusion does now, it’s impact will be unfairly blunted by the past actions of Fusion’s adversarial and heartless management, whom remain at the helm. The now-defunct Sex+ Life blog on Fusion seemingly made it over to Kinja. Some articles seemingly made it to Kinja. Those former reporters’ bio pages are gone now, and you have to use Google Cache to find what was there. ![]() (Jezebel, The Root, Jalopnik, Deadspin & Gizmodo use Kinja.)įusion laid off a bunch of reporters back in the fall, after the election, and AFTER the staff voted to unionize. Side note: FUSION is now on Kinja, the platform launched by Gawker. ![]() I don’t really care what they say about me, but employees of the Company and others are affected by these false comparisons.This is a terrifying, bizarre, well-written read.Īlso, artist Jim Cooke, who created the excellent artwork for this piece, is on tumblr. And they allude to Company money spent on my personal holiday travel, which also isn’t true (I pay personally all expenses on these trips). What’s worse than their usual nastiness is the rank inaccuracy: They compare my personal trips with IAC business, saying IAC isn’t awarding bonuses and raises this year for the third year, which is the opposite of true. Here's his full response, relayed by a spokeswoman: Reached for comment, Diller said he was bothered not so much by Gawker's "nastiness" as by assertions about his professional conduct and IAC's business. You can't hide from us." Denton didn't reply to that. I replied that the tone of Moylan's post isn't curious but taunting: It's a finger in the sternum saying "Everyone knows what you are. Gay equality means equal-opportunity baiting." "Interest in Ron Burkle's dating life is merely prurient but curiosity about Diller is 'gay-baiting,' to use your words. "I think you're the one guilty of double standards," Denton, who is gay, wrote. When I asked Gawker Media owner Nick Denton about the reader feedback, he was unrepentant. "I've been forced to defend Gawker to a lot of friends lately due to posts like this one," one reader wrote. A majority of the 285-plus comments on the post are critical, with many of them accusing Gawker of engaging in the worst sort of tabloid gay-baiting. Moylan and his editors may not have felt any justification was required, but Gawker's readers don't seem to agree. Any claim that Diller is guilty of impropriety or hypocrisy - the usual rationale given for exposing a public figure's personal life - is lacking. The newer post, by Brian Moylan, makes no such claims to legitimacy. But that story was putatively about Diller's use of corporate resources: "iven IAC's lackluster stock performance, shareholders must be wondering whether they should be subsidizing Diller's holiday temptations?" wrote its author, Ryan Tate. "Meet Barry Diller's Hot Gay Facebook Friend" was a follow-up, of sorts, to another recent post, "Barry Diller's Sexy All-Boy Thanksgiving," that featured the photos mentioned above, from a Thanksgiving 2009 trip to Papua New Guinea. Anything more salacious - that Diller and the publicist are romantically involved? that they run a dogfighting ring together? that they are both Reptilians who secretly control the exchange rate of the dollar from an underground bunker? - was left to readers' imaginations, as was the news value of the item. ![]()
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