But I feel like I would have seen a flicker of it. What was strange, though, is that in speaking to Peter Thiel, I never saw the anger. Ryan Holiday: My initial instinct was that it must have been pure anger. More power to him.” Based on your conversations with Thiel, why do you think he’s so mad about this blog post, if most of his friends (and their friends) knew he was gay? This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.ĭerek Thompson: On December 19, 2007, Gawker’s tech blog Valleywag published a post under the headline “Peter Thiel is totally gay, people,” ending with the sentence, “I think it's important to say this: Peter Thiel, the smartest VC in the world, is gay. I spoke to Holiday last week about the new information he’s uncovered, whether he thinks Gawker could have saved itself before the trial, and whether news reporters reflecting on Gawker’s demise should live in fear of upsetting rich people with their work.
A, not only came up with the idea in April 2011-before the publication of the Hogan video-to target Gawker through an open-ended legal fund but also spearheaded the plot to take down Gawker using Thiel’s money. In the book’s biggest revelation, Holiday reports for the first time that a twentysomething acquaintance of Thiel’s, identified only as Mr. Over the next two years, Holiday turned that access into the first reported book that chronicles the lawsuit, from the offending blog post that sparked Thiel’s wrath to the aftermath of Gawker’s sale. Shortly after the verdict, both Thiel and Gawker’s founder, Nick Denton, reached out to Holiday about his coverage of the lawsuit in the New York Observer. Send us feedback about these examples.This saga is the subject of a new book by the author and ( controversial) media strategist Ryan Holiday, called Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'gawk.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Anne Lagamayo, Longreads, Recently, Drake stopped to gawk at one of the bras that have been landing on his stage with regularity during his current tour. 2023 Your physical therapist helps prepare you for the streets of New York City by designing an obstacle course in the gym with chairs and yoga blocks scattered across the floor, meant to simulate rats on the sidewalk and tourists blocking the road while gawking at the Empire State Building. Jacob Kurowicki, Car and Driver, 3 Aug. Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023 As an exclusive option for the highest-performance-variant TLX, this gold color is sure to cause at least some gawking while jaunting down the road. 2023 Sightseeing riverboats glide beneath the bridge, their passengers gawking at the neon canyon above. 2023 As a child growing up working class on the Jersey Shore, Myron gawked at the stately homes in some of his hometown’s more affluent neighbors, like Marven Gardens to the south. Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023 La Jolla has become a popular landing place for pinnipeds to haul out of the ocean and rest - and for tourists to gawk at them. 2023 Some passersby stopped to gawk, but most minded their own business.
Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. Verb Texas resident Grace Markowitz gawked at the giant vegetable display. 2020 Even in the drowsy predawn morning, onlookers stopped to gawk. 2021 The reader doesn’t gawk at her tragedy and resilience. 2021 This is pretty typical of my Chicago unrealistic gawk-searching. 2021 People take deep breaths to inhale fresh air, gawk at the wildlife and rock climb. Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2022 With its cool look and flashy two-tone color schemes, folks will take gawk at the RAV4 Prime at the stoplight. 2022 People in the tavern gawk as Jamie interrogates his aunt, accusing her of purchasing a shop for Fergus to print propaganda. Julian Barnes, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020 The badaud, by contrast, is always liable to form a group or crowd, either for a mass gawk or some communal response. Noun The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
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