Word: gawker
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Ivygate recently reported that YouTube user “Dauphinish” released a video on Dec. 4 that, according to the YouTube caption, offers a “look inside the courtyard of Yale's oldest secret society.” And Gawker reported on Monday that the new privacy settings on Facebook confused a "boneswoman," which resulted in her pictures (from a Skull and Bones party at its retreat on Deer Island) being leaked out to the interwebs. Oops...
...maybe, if you dig conspiracy theories, he was framed (as Gawker conjectures). After all, you don't break into the Skull and Bones and get away with it: these kids totally look like they would jump...
...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...
...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...
...Herre”—she could believe in at least a false privacy. No longer. So remember: don’t just set your secret blogs on private—delete them. Then your romances with lusty literary luminaries can be both hot and Gawker-free...