Pop culture website Gawker.com is running an article on their blog today taking pot shots at the New York Comic Con and its attendees. Featuring a number of pictures of attendees in costume, there’s no real “article” to accompany them but only the headline “Nerd Alert” and a nasty paragraph that makes jokes at the expense of both comic fans and New Jersey. Typical of Gawker, they cover this story without ever actually attending the convention, taking their photos from wire service offerings.
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5 Responses to “NYCC ’09: Gawker HATES You”
February 7th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Gawker is worthless, an example of how the Internet can reduce any and all information to insult and innuendo. And their utter contempt for anything fannish is widely known. Their “coverage” of the 2007 controversy involving LiveJournal and fanfic writers portrayed all of them as deviants, and the recent cutbacks at LJ were treated as the inevitable result of fighting and losing to said deviants. (It was also inaccurate coverage.)
My best suggestion is ignore Gawker.
February 8th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Hates me? Nothing I saw in the photos on Gawker represents me. Just because I enjoy reading comics doesn’t mean I like to play dress up.
February 8th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Does anybody really pay attention to Gawker anyway? It is to entertainment news what Paris Hilton is to entertainment. Gossip Porn, and nothing more.
Pop Candy, on the other hand, at USAToday.com, is doing a pretty good job, I hear.
February 8th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
What’s Gawker and why in the world should I care? ^_^ That’s my attitude.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Oh come on, Gawker hates everyone and everything.