Nah, if Gawker loses this we lose. Media has to be able to publish factually true critical comment - and they might actually be on shaky legal grounds, given Britain's wild defamation law.
Gawker is left-wing trash. The Daily Mail is right-wing trash. Same shit, different side of the mainstream.
Has Gawker ever fabricated a story to humiliate an ethnic minority and perpetuate racism? Did Gawker literally back Hitler?
Not as far as I know. You know what they
did do? For one, they enabled celebrity stalkers:
Because there's no way that could
possibly end tragically! Rebecca Schaeffer? Who's that?
They also refuse to pay their interns, indulge in blatant double standards (condemning the Fappening while keeping a sex tape of Hulk Hogan on their website), doxxed every gun owner in New York City, ruined a Coca-Cola kindness campaign, forcibly outed a CFO... need I go on?
This is a ridiculous comparison. Gawker is a pretty good quality blog that sometimes makes bad mistakes. The Daily Mail is actively evil.
Both are actively evil, or at least unbearably awful. Two utterly vile rags duking it out to see who's the shittiest. I hope the only people who profit from this are the lawyers.