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Gawker Takes One-Sided Feud to Times

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BUT, BUT ... Gould
Today, the New York Times—aka the newspaper of record, aka the most influential news outlet on Earth—devotes some prime real estate on its Op-Ed page to an important cause: score-settling between a 25-year-old gossip blogger and a late-night comedian.

Nearly a month after Jimmy Kimmel lit into her on Larry King Live, the Times has given Gawker's Emily Gould a much-needed platform to defend herself. Previously, the dewy one's only avenues for recourse were Fox News's RedEye, where she said Kimmel can "eat me," and the website she co-edits, where Gould sternly instructs her readers not to make fun of the way she looks when she goes on RedEye to tell Jimmy Kimmel to eat her.

Oh, yes, and there's also her personal blog, though that seems to be reserved for gloating.

We have to ask, though: If you're the only one still arguing, does that really mean you won?

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way to bite the hand that feeds you, radar. how much traffic does gawker send your way? gawd

Posted by: teenage witch on May 4, 2007 3:59 PM

"bite the hand that feeds you"? you mean like attacking your own readers because they don't like your shirt?

Posted by: Moon Over My Hammy on May 4, 2007 5:01 PM

Maer, put your investor's money where your mouth is and get Miss Spiers to run this site... she'll be nice and embittered from her recent failure.

Posted by: splenetic on May 4, 2007 5:30 PM

Teenage witch:
"the hand that feeds you"?! Gawker has actively cheered for the folding of Radar.
Even going so far as to have cheap laughs just weeks after Zuckerman put over 30 people out of work in '05. All while smiling pretty (well, as best as the unsightly crew could muster) and hypocritically for their Vanity Fair shoot. Maybe they're following Denton's orders but it or anything the site does is hardly "citizen journalism". They rip on an indie with abandon and then go on to work at the Conde Nast mothership (how's it going over at VF online, Jess?). Please, they are just as Establishment as Jimmy Kimmel, only uglier.

Posted by: Girlina on May 6, 2007 11:05 AM

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Maybe she'd be able to make an intelligent point on TV ( or for that matter on any of her blog postings) if she weren't putting so much energy into that painfully fake UES accent.

Posted by: curry flava on May 7, 2007 12:13 PM