Because it ran two normal, natural and healthy articles pointing out the obvious.<\/p>\n
According to the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cTransphobia Is Perfectly Natural,\u201d and \u201cFerguson, Missouri Looks Like A Rap Video\u201d: So declared headlines on two consecutive days this past August from early adulthood-angst purveyor Thought Catalog, a Web site for and by millennials.<\/p>\n Both pieces racked up thousands of social media shares while being dissected and denounced by dozens of blogs and news outlets. But Thought Catalog, a powerhouse publisher that ranks among the 50 most visited Web sites in the United States, has disavowed any accountability for the pieces by claiming to be not quite a platform, not quite a publisher, but instead a \u201cplatisher\u201d \u2014 an online publishing trend that blurs the lines between editorial product and free-for-all blogging site.<\/p>\n The \u201ctransphobia\u201d piece, written by Vice co-founder and media provocateur Gavin McInnes, received enough backlash to cost McInnes his job at ad agency Rooster, which he co-founded. The day after that piece ran, the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., was becoming a national story, and Thought Catalog ran a take on the story by occasional contributor Anthony Rogers. When Gawker reported on the post, it used the headline: \u201cThought Catalog Is Now a White Supremacist Publication.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So Gawker is the voice of reason?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because it ran two normal, natural and healthy articles pointing out the obvious. According to the Washington Post: \u201cTransphobia Is Perfectly Natural,\u201d and \u201cFerguson, Missouri Looks Like A Rap Video\u201d: So declared headlines on two consecutive days this past August … Continue reading