Stalking, Scientology and sex: Gawker's biggest moments

[CommunicatorIC]

Stalking, Scientology and sex: Gawker's biggest moments.

Gawker.com has announced that it will be ending operations next week:

http://gawker.com/gawker-com-to-end-operations-next-week-1785455712

As noted in an Associated Press article, among other things Gawker became famous for publishing the Ton Cruise Scientology video:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/18/stalking-scientology-and-sex-gawker-biggest-moments.html

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Tom Cruise's Scientology recruitment video

In 2008 Gawker published a Scientology recruitment video featuring a black-turtlenecked Tom Cruise. It showed just how fanatic the actor was about his religion. It was a side of Cruise no one had quite seen before.

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Whatever one may think of Gawker otherwise, Gawker was the first news organization that stood up to the Church of Scientology's threats of litigation to publish the Tom Cruise Scientology video. Gawker's publication of that video was significant.

 

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Stalking, Scientology and sex: Gawker's biggest moments.

Gawker.com has announced that it will be ending operations next week:

http://gawker.com/gawker-com-to-end-operations-next-week-1785455712

As noted in an Associated Press article, among other things Gawker became famous for publishing the Ton Cruise Scientology video:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/18/stalking-scientology-and-sex-gawker-biggest-moments.html

* * * * * BEGIN EXCERPT * * * * *

Tom Cruise's Scientology recruitment video

In 2008 Gawker published a Scientology recruitment video featuring a black-turtlenecked Tom Cruise. It showed just how fanatic the actor was about his religion. It was a side of Cruise no one had quite seen before.

* * * * * END EXCERPT * * * * *

Whatever one may think of Gawker otherwise, Gawker was the first news organization that stood up to the Church of Scientology's threats of litigation to publish the Tom Cruise Scientology video. Gawker's publication of that video was significant.

It was that exact video and the controversy generated by $cientology demanding it be taken down that led to the birth of Anonymous and the eventual breaking of the media dam-wall.

Thank you Gawker.

 

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Gawker made a lot of enemies by publishing things that some people didn't like being out there.

The thing that mainly did them in was pissing off gay billionaire Peter Thiel by outing his dating life. He thereupon spent the next nine years spending $millions bankrolling people who wanted to sue Gawker.

This Is Why Billionaire Peter Thiel Wants to End Gawker

The article which outed Thiel

 

[CommunicatorIC]

Gawker goes dark, but its impact on Scientology — and Tom Cruise — will never be forgotten.

Tony Ortega has a very good article about this today. It is well worth reading in full.

Gawker goes dark, but its impact on Scientology — and Tom Cruise — will never be forgotten

http://tonyortega.org/2016/08/19/ga...ology-and-tom-cruise-will-never-be-forgotten/


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