Nick Denton Is Not a Sociopath: Gawker Media Staff Hail Blogger Number One
NICK Denton, former UCS boy and founder of Gawker Media, is the subject of a New Yorker piece:
“He’s not, like, a sociopath, but you kind of have to watch what you’re doing around him,” Ricky Van Veen, the C.E.O. of the Web site College Humor, told me.
“The villain public persona is not a hundred-per-cent true,” A. J. Daulerio, the editor-in-chief of Deadspin, Gawker Media’s sports blog, said. “It’s probably eighty-per-cent true.”
“He has fun when people say horrible things about him,” the blog guru Anil Dash said.
“I can’t lie to make him worse than he is, but he’s pretty bad,” Ian Spiegelman, a former Gawker writer, said.
“Other people’s emotions are alien to him,” Choire Sicha, another Gawker alumnus, said.
Rupert Murdoch is listening…
Posted: 12th, October 2010 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
