His post today was indictative that a great injustice has been caused towards the company. Pretty sure his stance hasn't changed there.Well I imagine you have to pick your battles and while you're still under the leadership of Denton, you have to not try and piss him off any more. I imagine if Totilo had left and found another role somewhere else, his response would have been far different.
I still think no response would have been better but who knows, maybe he was directed to say some of that. We just don't know.
Leaking games as AC Syndicate and Fallout 4 is called journalism?
Yes?
When a journalist gets a scoop in the field that they are covering it, they don't sit on it. Just like Ariel Helwani talked about recently when reporting on Brock Lesnar signing with the UFC, which got his press credentials revoked.
They also gave us great stuff like the story about Destiny's troubled development.
Honestly, I haven't cared for Kotaku that much myself, but to act like they haven't been doing actual journalism in the past few years is just flat out wrong and screams of willful ignorance. People like Jason Schreier and Patrick Klepek have been doing a great job for a while. Credit should be given when it's due.
In the context of this industry, yes.Leaking games as AC Syndicate and Fallout 4 is called journalism?
Man, that would be delicious.So even though IGN are interested... what's to stop Thiel from outbidding them at auction and buying the assets to close it down?
Being well known for producing good content and having many contacts is NOT nepotism.
Nepotism is being favored bc you are related.
I don't feel bad for the upper management of Gawker that put the company in this position. They played a dangerous game and lost. They outed people, posted the Hogan video, and conducted themselves in a poor fashion.
I feel bad for those who work for the company and had nothing to do with the events that led to this. They are the victims here.
Leaking games as AC Syndicate and Fallout 4 is called journalism?
Leaking games as AC Syndicate and Fallout 4 is called journalism?
Kotaku, please tell me you're okay!
Go independent, Kotaku! Arrange funds if needed.
Man I bet they're really kicking themselves for publishing that article.
Executives at Gawker Media told employees today that the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiels third-party funding of several lawsuits against the company. This plan will allow Gawker to continue functioning, but will require selling the company to another entity.
The sale and filing are intended to preserve the value of GMGs pioneering digital news business, safeguard the jobs of journalists and other staff, and allow GMG to fund the appeal against the $130 million judgment in the Hulk Hogan case against the company in a Florida state court.
Hard to believe people wanna tapdance on Kotaku's grave because they reported that sequels to video games were coming out before an official press release.
Hard to believe people wanna tapdance on Kotaku's grave because they reported that sequels to video games were coming out before an official press release.
Game publishers are our friends, we should respect their wishes. I love to buy products. Get hype for E3! Let's spread positivity!
And here's Totilo's response to that story...
Knock it off, as this thread has already demonstrated, companies are not just those at the very top. A consumer's "right to know" is an excuse by Kotaku to generate ad revenue on the consumer's "want to know". You don't think leaks affect devs? Just as we're talking about how lowly kotaku employees don't deserve this?
Peter Thiel 1 - 0 Scumbag Denton
EA and Bethesda will have to survive this relentless assault of free promotion for their games.
Hulk Hogan burying websites now.
Is there no end to his madness?
Hard to believe people wanna tapdance on Kotaku's grave because they reported that sequels to video games were coming out before an official press release.
From reading the statement from the Ziff Davis CEO, it seem that they want to acquire Gawker Media and keep all of their sites running independently. That would imply that sites such as Kotaku would keep doing what they were doing before and if the buyout happens (I'm also not taking into consideration any possible restructuring or staff leaving if the buyout were to happen).
But to what extent would that be too? If Kotaku were to leak something to the public (Fallout 4 for example) and get blacklisted by the publisher like they've and gotten done in the past, could that possibly extend to IGN, since both sites are now owned by the same publisher? I don't think a site like IGN would like to incur publishers' wrath like Kotaku has done so in the past.
Leaks can and will happen. As far as I know Kotaku is one of the biggest sites to do their own investigating just to blurt out unnanounced games. I'm not saying that this is some ridiculous "spoiling" of an announcement, but rather just co-oping an announcement and doing it first to get ad rev.
Weirdly enough I think kotaku's reporting on the scorpio and gb's reporting on neo is appropriate. There is a "need to know" for consumers.
Reminder that just because somebody doesn't like Kotaku and doesn't feel bad about the site potentially dying doesn't mean that they're happy that people are losing their jobs.
We are still talking about whether or not reporting on the existence of a video game before the corporate machine can maximize preorders by controlling all of the announcement timing qualifies as journalism right? Because so far nothing you're describing really discredits the idea, nor does it sound like an indictment of the ethics of organizations that use their sources to leak that information. If a journo can get that info out to people who want it (and we want it!) then yes, they deserve that ad revenue. I don't understand your objection to them running ads next to a story that effectively says "Publisher known for annualizing franchises is about to announce a sequel, get your info here first." I mean, should they not monetize their ability to get such scoops? Why? Hurt feelings? Somone's deeply warped definition of "Ethics?"
Journalism that requires the consent of the person being reported on to publish ceases to be journalism and just becomes PR. Gawker was clearly in the wrong with Hogan, and I would say they were probably even in the wrong with Thiel, but good journalism is going to piss off people from time to time, and sometimes those people are going to be billionaires.
Gawker had the resources to fight and get to the point where they lost, but there are smaller outlets out there who don't have the resources to even fight a billionaire, even if they have a winning case.
It shouldn't be on the readership to pity defend them.
I wonder about two things: Are they even allowed to put themselfs up for sale now that they owe Hogan 140 million? What's to stop them from selling the company for just pennies? And second: Will a potential buyer have to pay those 140 million because they are the new owner?