Univision Buys Kotaku and other Gawker websites

[Legend]

Univision is buying Gawker Media for $135M - NeoGAF

http://www.recode.net/2016/8/16/1250...or-135-million

Univision has won the auction for Gawker Media. The TV network and digital publisher has agreed to pay $135 million for the bankrupt blog network, according to a person familiar with the deal. Univision's offer will encompass all seven of Gawker Media's sites, including Gawker.com Ziff Davis and Univision were the only two bidders for Gawker, which filed for bankruptcy after Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel won a $140 million judgement in a privacy case. Ziff Davis had originally offered $90 million for Gawker Media.The deal won't be official for a bit. For starters, a US bankruptcy court judge needs to sign off on the transaction. When it is final, the funds will be set aside, while Gawker appeals its court case; eventually the money will go to the side that wins. Whatever the result of the case, the auction is a disappointing conclusion for Gawker Media owner Nick Denton, who founded the company in 2002. Last year, as rival media companies like Vice, BuzzFeed and Vox Media (which owns this site) were raising money at increasingly high valuations, Denton was arguing that his company was worth $250 million or more.

 

Well, at least it's not Ziff
 

[darkknightkryta]

Random question, why does everyone hate Kotaku?

[Legend]

Random question, why does everyone hate Kotaku?

For a lot of people it's due to gamergate. Kotaku has done a good job making enemies with them.

[darkknightkryta]

For a lot of people it's due to gamergate. Kotaku has done a good job making enemies with them.

I heard the complaints before.  But we're they for women or against?  Like there was a scandal with that joker right?

[Legend]

I heard the complaints before.  But we're they for women or against?  Like there was a scandal with that joker right?

They're anti gamergate.

[darkknightkryta]

They're anti gamergate.

So they hate women?

[Legend]

So they hate women?

Huh? Gamergate is a mess of different people thinking it stands for different things, but I've never seen it regarded as a feminist movement.

[darkknightkryta]

Huh? Gamergate is a mess of different people thinking it stands for different things, but I've never seen it regarded as a feminist movement.

Wasn't gamergate the whole problem with women complaining about how they're treated in journalism and how women are portrayed in video games?  Like, didn't this whole thing stem from that girl getting fired from Kotaku because she was using her bag to move up the ranks?  Then she went on a rant complaining Kotaku hate women.  And that whole non-sense with that girl who always complains about how women are clothed in vdeogames.  The hypocrite, I can't remember her name. 
Note: should ball be censored when it's the proper word for a ball?  Vs using bedspring.

[Aura7541]

Wasn't gamergate the whole problem with women complaining about how they're treated in journalism and how women are portrayed in video games?  Like, didn't this whole thing stem from that girl getting fired from Kotaku because she was using her bag to move up the ranks?  Then she went on a rant complaining Kotaku hate women.  And that whole non-sense with that girl who always complains about how women are clothed in vdeogames.  The hypocrite, I can't remember her name. 
Note: should ball be censored when it's the proper word for a ball?  Vs using bedspring.

The person who you might be talking about is Zoe Quinn. She slept with one of the writers of Kotaku and the site published an article giving positive feedback to her game, Depression Quest, without disclosing relations between her and the Kotaku staff. It was that moment that led to GamerGate. The movement arose from the lack of disclosure and transparency in video game media.

The reason why the "GamerGate is a women-hating movement" narrative became so rampant was because Zoe Quinn, with other prominent feminists like Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu latching onto the narrative, repeatedly labeled the (deserved) backlash she received as sexist and misogynist.

Some feminist/women's rights groups such as Women's Initiative actually realized that this narrative was questionable and asked GamerGate for an open dialogue.