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  • The Christine O'Donnell campaign has taken to Facebook to address a highly criticized anonymous account of a late-night encounter involving the Tea Party-backed Republican Senate candidate published in Gawker Thursday.

    Christine O'Donnell Blasts Gawker's 'One Night Stand' Story The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The Christine O'Donnell campaign has taken to Facebook to address a highly criticized anonymous account of a late-night encounter involving the Tea Party-backed Republican Senate candidate published in Gawker Thursday.

    Christine O'Donnell Blasts Gawker's 'One Night Stand' Story The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • It kind of makes explicit that this (re -?) imagining of Gawker is not as the site that takes down the traditional media by mocking them, but as the site that takes down the traditional media by stealing their advertising dollars.

    Gawker Reinvention - Anil Dash 2007

  • Gawker is having a good time taking down Ann Brashares. posted by Roger Sutton at 3: 21 PM

    De-Pantsed Roger Sutton 2007

  • Gawker is having a good time taking down Ann Brashares. posted by Roger Sutton at 3: 21 PM

    Archive 2007-01-01 Roger Sutton 2007

  • It†™ s long been known to magazine journalists that there†™ s an audience out there that†™ s hungry to see the grasping and vainglorious and undeservedly successful (“douchebags” or “asshats, ” in Gawker parlance) put in the tumbrel and taken to their doom.

    Gawker Reckoning - Anil Dash 2007

  • Gawker is all about making fun of things, so its readers mock each other and it right back in the comments.

    Whatever happened to online etiquette? 2006

  • Gawker is all about making fun of things, so its readers mock each other and it right back in the comments.

    Firebug 1.0 – Web developer tool of the year? | 456 Berea Street 2006

  • Well, Gawker is keeping us honest in Age of Blogs, with a roundup of the tropes we most commonly fall back on in our posts, from Best.

    The War Against Cliché 2006

  • “Most everyone at Gawker is a misfit of some sort,”: “rumored to have been fired … for being high on the job”; “never went to college”; “only wears 1960s clothes”; “notoriously unemployable.”.

    Archive 2005-09-01 Ben Barren 2005

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