![]() He was shown an email from Denton to staff that stated, “A.J. In a deposition, he was asked to explain the value of past Gawker stories showing Brett Favre’s penis and Kate Middleton’s breasts. I would also advise him to consult with our counsel.” Daulerio, the former Gawker editor who wrote the piece about the wonderments of watching celebrity sex that accompanied the publishing of the Hulk Hogan sex tape, but says that in general, he “would have encouraged him to avoid being gratuitous, for instance putting up the whole tape without making a point. That’s why I love the US.”ĭenton said he was more interested in Deadspin’s Manti Te’o scoop than the Hulk Hogan sex tape, but thought the latter had “higher meaning” than another Gawker story involving Kate Middleton’s breasts. He said he didn’t recall specifically the conversation he had with A.J. In deposition testimony, Denton was asked about that article and stuck to his guns, saying, “There are still too many stories which are kept within the guild of journalists or insiders” and “I believe in total freedom and information transparency … I’m an extremist when it comes to that. “Ten years ago, people maintained very different private and professional personas,” he told THR in 2013. Nick Denton, its owner, has long admitted an aversion to privacy, directing his publication to tell the kinds of off-the-record stories that journalists pass along to each when hanging out together. ![]() Gawker‘s own story isn’t quite as disassociated. ![]() Hogan’s explanation is that he plays a “character,” but when he goes home, he’s Terry Bollea (his real name) and doesn’t expect the cameras to trail him into the bedroom. The series of depositions shown to the jury followed Hogan’s own testimony where he tried to carve out some semblance of privacy for himself while being grilled on why he was discussing his sex life on a publicity tour. If trials are exercises in storytelling, Hogan’s attorneys took the past 24 hours as an opportunity to present Gawker as an unsympathetic collective of heartless and obstinate millennials who rapaciously stared at a screen showing traffic to their stories while sending crude messages to each other about their endeavors. ![]() Scott Hall, Notorious Bad Guy of Pro Wrestling, Dies at 63 ![]()
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