A rather insane read on the future of media from Emily Gould, the current editor of Gawker.com, who went on Larry King Live when Jimmy Kimmel was hosting. Kimmel has some personal issues with Gawker, but Gould reminded us dramatically why
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
I don;t know if it IS an entitlement issue DPo.
It’s more that on the internet you really aren;t “in print” hence the fact-checking isn;t even important/an issue, you can always just “update edit” if someone objects or if Bert Fields send you a note on letterhead.
People read Gawker from voyeurism, and Defamer is a bit of that as well with additional industry ‘leaks’ which might be true or not.
The fact that what people read “might” be true, is enough to ensure readership.
Plus they might get tasteless pictures of someone’s privates or a mug shot before anyone else.
Besides acting STOOPID is the new hip, isn’t it. Gawker makes Page Six reporting look highly intelligent.
The kind of stupidity those Gawker-like sites produces is infinitely more degrading than mere gossip stories published by Page Six. They really congratulate themselves for being nasty and cruel. The example Kimmel gave is perfect: the headline about Kevin Costner’s weight accompanied by a photo of Jabba the Hutt.
They’re not in it to print news. They just want people to laugh about their cruelty. It’s as if they’re “cool” just because they’re capable of making cruel jokes about rich people. They actually think they’re more “noble” or less “garbage” than Page Six just because they can create stupid puns.
When Defamer first started, I used to visit it and to get a laugh or two from their headlines and posts. Then I started feeling sick of them and of myself for looking for those kind of “articles”.
Everything that stupid Emily Gould girl said during the interview confirms the arrogance and the lack of any kind of moral or intellectual ambition by those behind Gawker, Defamer, etc.
How is the cruelty that Gawker shows any different that the jokes Kimmel tells on his show every night. Kimmel is often mean spirited but I guess it’s cool if you are mean to Star Jones or someone else like that. Costner is a world class jerk, everyone knows it. How often is Gawker or Defamer actually wrong?
Well, for starters, Kimmel doesn’t pass himself and his jokes as “news”.