Land of the free? Gawker Media's new owner deletes six 'true and accurate' stories because of 'frivolous' lawsuits
PeterK
Executive editor John Cook was reportedly overruled by colleagues.
He said in a memo to staff reported by Gizmodo: “I communicated to Felipe and Jay in the strongest terms that deleting these posts is a mistake and that disappearing true posts about public figures simply because they have been targeted by a lawyer who conspired with a vindictive billionaire to destroy this company is an affront to the very editorial ethos that has made us successful enough to be worth acquiring.”
In a statement the Gawker Media Editorial Union said: “Univision has said that it bought Gawker Media because it believed in the work that our publications do. That work, for well over a decade, was only possible because we knew that our company leadership would defend it if it came under frivolous legal attack.
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