Discussion: Gawker To Become A Political Website

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In response, Talking Points Memo publisher and editor Josh Marshall, wrote in a memo to staff that the site would seize on the 2016 campaign cycle to "reorient its editorial scope on Charlie Sheen, Sara Palin and really really really trying to find someone who can write a headline that reflects the actual story,” according to The New York Times.

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and the last representatives of two exhausted political dynasties

What? Both Jenna and Chelsea have children.

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Certainly you mean Chelsea and Kim/Caitlin?

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Sounds like it’s going to be edgy.

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One Direction’s Harry Styles writes a mean song about Taylor Swift!

http://www.inquisitr.com/2572157/one-directions-perfect-lyrics-harry-styles-confirms-song-is-about-taylor-swift/

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Sounds like they found out how much Zsa Zsa GaWhore was able to sell the Huffington Post for.

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This is awful. What a joke.

“Is there any doubt that the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, a contest between reality-defying fabulists and the last representatives of two exhausted political dynasties will provide rich new opportunities for sensation and satire?”

If you think that ‘sensation and satire’ are what is lacking in our national politic, then Gawker might have what you are looking for. These clowns will do more to suppress the youth/progressive vote with their lazy cynicism and personality-driven horse race analysis than any Republican Governor could possibly hope to. I understand these writers need to make enough money to score an eightball on the weekends, but at what price to the rest of us? Disgusting.

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And they will of course maintain their standards of journalistic integrity, and since they have none, maintaining them shouldn’t be too terribly hard.

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“Is there any doubt that the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, a contest between reality-defying fabulists and the last representatives of two exhausted political dynasties will provide rich new opportunities for sensation and satire?”

Is there any doubt that the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, a contest between candidates who are all supported by insanely wealthy Super PACs looking for media outlets to influence with advertising money, will provide for new opportunities for douchebags whose souls are for sale?

FIFY

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Haha…seriously…I can just imagine their ad execs sneezing molly all over the negotiating table while trying to leverage Trump’s PACs’ offers against Hillary’s PACs’ offers to see who can purchase the most favorable coverage for the highest price on advertising.

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I think Wonkette already has the ground covered, hard to imagine Gawker even coming close to that site.

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We already have one Politico, we don’t need another politics as entertainment mashup of a media source.

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Wait, Gawker is still around? Who knew?

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Clinton dynasty doesn’t even make the top 10 list http://people.howstuffworks.com/10-american-political-dynasties.htm#page=10

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Wonkette has the Babby of distinction, too, that counts for so much.
edited to give link to said Babby.

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Tiger Beat on the Potomac.