On Gawker’s Nastiness

Lisa Dusenbery bio ↓ · October 27th, 2011 · filed under Other

“What the Gawker ethos (i.e., the sneer) comes down to is this: Everyone is a phony, except presumably those writers at Gawker who labor tirelessly to point out this phoniness (think Holden Caulfield gone a little sour, and getting a little old).”

At Slate, Katie Roiphe critiques Gawker, providing an analysis of their mode of operations. Roiphe laments the site’s subpar name-calling, and wishes it could be “less generic, less anonymous, less generally applicable to anyone who has done anything.”

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Lisa Dusenbery is the assistant editor at The Rumpus. Besides writing, her interests include dancing, practicing winking, and the smell of basements. She is a recent convert to San Francisco, CA. More from this author →

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