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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 07:32 PM

Gawker Is Not TMZ

I've gotten real news from Gawker.com-when the MTV permalancers lost their benefits and went on strike, Gawker reported. I didn't see anything about that on NYTimes.com. When the street exploded near Grand Central, I read about it on Gawker. I've gotten more real, useful news from Gawker than I've ever gotten from Salon.

Just about every anti-Gawker article I've read seems to come from people who are very much like the people Gawker focuses its lenses on--rich, privileged public and semi-public figures. If they want to pool their money and start a little website poking fun at me (I can see the stories now--exposes on shopping at Payless, how all my gloves are made of cloth, and I actually need my salary! The horror!) they can go right ahead.

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