“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.”
