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“He looked at her thoughtfully, gently bit the tip of her nose. He had loved her with all his might these two weeks and, in so loving, had considered her transparent, a plate of glass. He could see through to the goodness at her quick. But glass is fragile, he would have to be careful.”
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel
Tagged: Love
“We used to call them “namestorms.” Get it? Denton didn’t want them too positive. They always had to have a negative connotation. Everyone else on the Web would have named it something like “HomeRun.com” or “BigWinner.com.” We’d put together these complicated spreadsheets with prefixes and suffixes that would be weird but interesting. “Misplayer” was one that we liked. “Bench Jock” was one that we liked. “Bench Writer.” “Bench Cast.” “Off Play.” “Scrum Line.” These sound like jokes from House of Cards. Usually Denton would emerge, somehow put two and two together, and have the name nailed.”
— Lockhart Steele, Gawker: An Oral History (Kindle Single)
Tagged: Understanding Gawker Media, Negative, Deadspin
“Denton and I had a stare-down. He scared me staring at me, man. He just sat there staring. It was right after his cross-examination. He stood up and stared. It was like he was going to call me out at Wrestlemania.”
— Terry Bollea, Hulk Hogan and Nick Denton had a sex tape trial ‘stare-down’
Tagged: Nick Denton, Hulk vs. Gawk
“Perhaps the most curious aspect of the trial is that there was one. Few traditional publishers would have ever found themselves in this position. Both because the issue would have seemed tenuous enough and dubious enough to avoid — showing a surreptitiously recorded clip of a sexual encounter — or because it would have been settled beforehand. As strong as the publishing industry’s belief in free speech is its belief about never going in front of a jury. ”
— Michael Wolff, On Hulk Hogan's $115M Verdict and Why Gawker Should Settle the Case
Tagged: Hulk vs. Gawk
“Allowing a jury to bankrupt a publisher, over content that the Florida appeals court already held was a matter of legitimate public concern, is extremely dangerous.”
— Chuck Tobin, Rieder: A big-time comeuppance for Gawker
Tagged: Gawker, Media, First Amendment
“Nick Denton's position on privacy is basically no social media at my wedding but cameras in other people's bedrooms are fine. Jury disagreed.”
— Robert Levine, 7:45 PM - 18 Mar 2016
Tagged: Denton’s Strange Realtionship With Transparency
“I believe in total freedom and information transparency. I want everybody to know everything. And I think society, this country that I moved to will be better off if we could talk freely about everything. So that’s – I’m an extremist when it comes to that.”
— Nick Denton, 2D15-5044 / Appendix 1
Tagged: Privacy, Transparency, Thiel vs. Gawker, Denton’s Strange Realtionship With Transparency
“Freedom of expression will always be more popular in principle than in practice. We want to be free to express ourselves, but are less enthusiastic when that freedom is exercised by others with whom we disagree. Nobody likes a critic.”
— Nick Denton, The Hogan Verdict
Tagged: Legal, Lawsuits, Freedom of Expression, Gawker, Freedom of Speech Except
“In a series of articles from 1912, Jung’s friend and colleague Alphonse Maeder argued that dreams had a function other than that of wish fulfillment, which was a balancing or compensatory function.”
— C. G. Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
“A particularly problematic form of avoiding is complaining to a third party instead of to the person with whom you’re upset. It makes you feel better, but puts the third party in the middle with no good way to help. They can’t speak for you, and if they try, the other person may get the idea that the problem is so terrible that you can’t discuss it directly. On the other hand, if they keep quiet, the third party is burdened with only your partisan and incomplete version of the story.”
— Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Tagged: Complaining, Venting