The Epic Fail of Gawker Media
Feb. 8th, 2010 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lazypadawanI hate anything associated with Gawker Media. Why? All of their sites are written by a combination of Huffington Post and TMZ.com rejects, long on mudslinging and short on facts. Such as when it comes to Star Wars or Papa George.
Today its sf/f media site i09 posted a ridiculous item confusing the upcoming live-action show, author Karen Traviss's decision to quit writing Star Wars, and Clone Wars. Go look the damn thing up if you feel like it, I'm not going to bother to link to it. But it's amazing to me a site that's purportedly professional would run something like that without bothering to check for accuracy first. Or, maybe accuracy isn't so much the issue as it is a creative writing exercise that draws the usual Lucas-bashing and prequel-bashing.
Today its sf/f media site i09 posted a ridiculous item confusing the upcoming live-action show, author Karen Traviss's decision to quit writing Star Wars, and Clone Wars. Go look the damn thing up if you feel like it, I'm not going to bother to link to it. But it's amazing to me a site that's purportedly professional would run something like that without bothering to check for accuracy first. Or, maybe accuracy isn't so much the issue as it is a creative writing exercise that draws the usual Lucas-bashing and prequel-bashing.
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Date: 2010-02-09 06:22 am (UTC)The left loves to cite Gawker while expressing disdain for "blogs" (huh, same thing!) including those written by well-respected writers.
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Date: 2010-02-10 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-09 05:53 pm (UTC)