This is happening more and more often these days, including over important stories. Lots of publishers wouldn’t touch it, not because the reporting wasn’t solid, but because they didn’t want to face the possibility of libel lawsuits, no matter how silly. A couple months ago, we wrote about how the “Gawker Effect” had made it very difficult for a huge investigative piece on R Kelly “holding women against their will” by Jim DeRogatis (a music reporter who has broken a number of R Kelly related stories over the years) to find a home to get published. Because, as we noted, the playbook used against Gawker could be used against lots of other publications.Īnd it’s clearly impacting a number of others as well.
We pointed out that it was a big deal even if you absolutely hated Gawker and wanted to see them destroyed. When the jury verdict against Gawker came down a year and a half ago, we warned of how problematic it was. Tue, Oct 17th 2017 09:31am - Mike Masnick
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