Nick Denton - Pop goes the Gawker Weasel

What a surprise, NOT.

I am not SHOCKED, not SHOCKED, to learn that a PUBLISHER facing bankruptcy MIGHT be in the process of hiding his money.

Shits like Nick Denton think they're very slick. "Oh, I've tossed a million bucks into England, er, uh, because my sister lives there. We're setting up a trust fund."

Somehow others in the media, perhaps very glad to kick a copycat cocksucker in the balls, are watching EVERY move he makes. You can't blame the real newspapers for wanting to stick it to one of the parasites who copies their work.

GAWKER is mostly just another cut-paste-rewrite site, like Huffington, Decidr, etc. Facts, after all, can't be copyrighted. So a dozen leech websites re-write the hard news, and then DECIDE to add opinion or GAWK with a few more photos than the Times might run.

Gawker figured "fair use" applies to anything and everything, and the Internet is "just a venue" where nobody gets prosecuted. Then came Hulk Hogan, who didn't appreciate them GAWKING at stolen bedroom videos he didn't even know existed, and didn't want the world to see.

Just how these parasite-sites make so much money is beyond me. Doesn't everyone BLOCK banner ads and bullshit ads? Of course the publisher does take most of it, right? There aren't many paid staffers, and few freelancers. All these sites need is a slavey or two to re-write what's in the newspaper and get the HTML right.

I've not only seen publishers circling the bankruptcy drain, I've even testified in COURT. As in: "Shut this guy down NOW, he's putting everything that isn't nailed down into secret storage. As in: "he's hiding the money in bank accounts he controls and he's "over-paying" a few people who will kick back the money after he's safely protected by bankruptcy." But that's standard operating procedure in the weasel world of business. We're just supposed to GAWK at it in wonder.

I think most everyone is rooting for Hulk Hogan, and just hoping this fight isn't fixed.