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...While Daulerio sounds somewhat humbled in a conversation with TIME about the incident, he doesn't apologize. "Was there an ax to grind?" Daulerio says. "Yeah. That was one part of it. But I also felt a little safe and justified in doing this stuff." Daulerio insists that he trusts his sources and claims that he really was trying to make a larger point about ESPN's culture - employees allegedly complain that while on-air personalities get reprimanded for inappropriate relationships, business executives enjoy more leeway...
...printing unconfirmed rumors about the private lives of relatively anonymous ESPN workers, who in this case appear to be collateral damage to a spiteful fit, the fairest way for Deadspin, which is part of the Gawker Media conglomerate, to make this point? "No," Daulerio admits. "I'm a human being at the end of the day with this stuff. But at the same time, did I want to cause panic around Bristol? Yes. Of course I did. And I think I succeeded. I also succeeded with the fact that it was compelling blog theater to watch the entire thing...
...Beyond their contribution to the ongoing ESPN-Deadspin battle - in many ways Deadspin, which attracts some 150,000 visitors a day, built its brand on its incessant, sometimes controversial and often entertaining nagging of the ESPN powerhouse - Daulerio's posts bring up more important issues about the rules of Internet play. "At major blogs, you have the ability to destroy people with the click of the mouse," says Clay Travis, a former practicing lawyer and senior writer at FanHouse, a sports website. Shortly after the incident, Travis, a former Deadspin editor, wrote a smart, detailed breakdown of the legal questions...
...These rules, however, were written in an age when print outlets had time to consult their attorneys and deliberate the legal risks, and moral ethics, of publishing controversial stories. Daulerio says a Gawker lawyer did not look at his posts before he published them. In fact, Gawker founder Nick Denton recently sent a memo to his staff imploring them to act less like traditional media. "Let's check to see whether the associated claim is true," Denton wrote. "But we should publish anyway, making clear what we know to be true and what remains up in the air ... There...
...ESPN won't comment on any potential legal action against Deadspin. Of course, if the claims that Deadspin published are true, there's no case. Daulerio says that although he has more sordid information on other ESPN employees, the "Horndog Dossier" is over. That's good news. But perhaps it's a little too late for those who were caught in the crossfire...