![]() I somewhat understand why Holiday went this route, but it gets exhausting when you’re trying to connect to the story but every few sentences are bogged down with wordy philosophies and musings. ![]() One of the problems I had with this book is that the tone of the author feels a little lofty for what actually took place. An unlikely alliance forms and to make an absolutely bonkers story short, Thiel, using Hogan as a cover of sorts, bankrupted Gawker using the US legal system and in the process changed the conversation around journalism and privacy. As it just so happened, several years later, Gawker posted a leaked sex tape from Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan. Peter took offence, and instead of letting it go like most people advised him, he decided he was going to do something about it. One of the articles they posted outed Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire, as gay. It got away with this more or less by hiding behind the first amendment- because of free speech, if you're a public personality, you’re fair game. ![]() ![]() You see, Gawker is a now defunct blog site that made a name for itself by posting nasty and mean spirited articles, mainly about celebrities and high profile people. Moving on, Ryan Holiday mixes the story of the spectacular downfall of Gawker, a tabloid blog with the concept of conspiracies themselves- how they form, progress and ultimately resolve. ![]()
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