They were told by a court before the trial to take the video down. They didn't listen. They did something wrong. And there's plenty more where that came from when it comes to Gawker doing stupid, petty, awful things.

A glorified TMZ with a hypocritical streak of self-righteousness a mile wide isn't necessary.

He wrote some great articles about inequality, but he also called his alma mater Howard University a "hip hop school," so fuck him.

It's a shitty precedent but Gawker didn't do themselves any favors. Everyone can be fired into the sun.

It's not like Whitlock does himself any favors. Howard also defended Max Read and Tommy Craggs's protest resignations after the Conde Nast exec's outing and subsequent retraction.

Hamilton Nolan was simultaneously responsible for some of Gawker's best work (namely, inequality in America and horrible employer practices) and one of their worst self-appointed moral crusaders. Also, he kept remarkably silent when Gawker laid off unionized employees who were working without a contract.

That "50 Cuisines from 50 States" list was a travesty for naming saltwater taffy as New Jersey's representative and not Taylor ham. He missed a golden opportunity to wade into that fight….

It was supposed to be against that horseshit, but The Concourse had an article headlined "Shut Up About Clickbait."

Why would they? Gawker does that every day already, to the point of claiming it's completely his fault why they're out of business.

That makes it even less excusable. They had the ability to be a better news site, they just didn't want to.

In my opinion, that was the worst thing Gawker ever did. If a different website did something like that, they'd be raising holy hell for days on end. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they wrote some nasty things about the guy who wrote an article about posing as gay in Rio and outing athletes. Their philosophy is…

They did a hell of a lot more slimy shit than good journalism. If they did more stuff like exposes of what it's like to work at Amazon and less mean, boring gossip about people they don't like, then I'd feel a twinge of regret that they're no longer with us.

I was talking about the writers possibly coming to AV Club and not this site in general. I agree with you, this is just another "everything is politics" site these days and has been for… I'm not sure when, but last month was when it became glaringly obvious.

It's the only one we've got!

Yeah, he does, but that's been a horribly compromised site ever since MLB took it over.

They still claim that they did absolutely nothing wrong. Their denial is beneath even them.

Magary owns and "Why Your Team Sucks" is the best thing on any sports website. It's what got me into Deadspin in the first place.

I'm celebrating because I did read the site, or at least I used to. Stuff like "500 Days of Kristen" is not groundbreaking journalism, it's stupid and petty. It was a glorified National Inquirer. I'm not absolving Peter Thiel at all, but Gawker dug their own grave and he pushed them into it.

I'm not a fan of arguments about "the discourse." My problem with them is that they were horribly self-righteous, more than even Salon, and their actions showed as much. Also they got very boring in the last two years, and that's why I read that site and Deadspin in the first place.

As far as I'm concerned all of them should be thrown in a cage and forced to fight to the death