{"id":1633,"date":"2007-12-03T21:44:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T04:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2007-12-04T19:13:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T02:01:19","slug":"gawker-forces-alex-pareene-to-become-a-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1633","title":{"rendered":"Gawker Forces Alex Pareene to Become a Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigheaddc.com\/2007\/12\/03\/gawker-forces-alex-pareene-to-be-a-journalist\/\">BigHeadDC reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheadnyc.com\/2007\/12\/03\/huge-gawker-shake-ups\/\">big news this weekend<\/a> that a whopping three editors, including the managing editor, quit <strong>Nick Denton&rsquo;s<\/strong> flagship Gawker Media blog empire, has left former Wonkette editor <strong>Alex Pareene<\/strong> up a tree without a parachute. Pareene, you&rsquo;ll recall, was run out of Washington after his affair with a married female <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheaddc.com\/2007\/10\/10\/alex-pareene-affair\/\">was revealed on <strong>Big Head DC<\/strong><\/a>. Denton looked kindly on him (<a href=\"http:\/\/bigheadnyc.com\/2007\/11\/28\/gawker-owner-is-pals-with-rumored-sen-lott-lover\/\">maybe because Denton is known for some strange affairs of his own<\/a>), and let him start quietly snarking in NYC at Gawker. But, with the departure of a majority of its editorial staff, Denton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/03\/business\/media\/03gawker.html?ref=business\">has now announced<\/a> that he wants to re-fashion the site as a news disseminator &mdash; not a snark regurgitator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigheaddc.com\/2007\/12\/03\/memo-to-dan-savage\/\">BigHeadDC writes this memo to Dan Savage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps you don&rsquo;t want to believe the <strong>Benjamin Nicholas<\/strong> \/ <strong>Trent Lott<\/strong> story because you played a role in once hiring Nicholas, an alleged plagiarist, to write a few articles for your newspaper, <em>The Stranger<\/em>? Have you had communications with Nicholas since this story broke? If so, what has he told you? Have you not been honest in&nbsp;explaining your relationship with him?&nbsp;Most importantly, why did he risk his negatively affecting escort business by not flat-out denying a Lott relationship in his original e-mails?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BigHeadDC reports: The big news this weekend that a whopping three editors, including the managing editor, quit Nick Denton&rsquo;s flagship Gawker Media blog empire, has left former Wonkette editor Alex Pareene up a tree without a parachute. Pareene, you&rsquo;ll recall, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1633\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}