That will mean one less direct link between his name and Gawker’s allegations. Though it will have little effect, I likewise won’t name the smeared person.
Given the way this news story has gone viral, I cannot protect the name of the individual accused of hiring a gay prostitute, but I can at least do something to minimise adding clicks on Gawker’s site. The link I’ve provided above is not to Gawker’s site, but to an archived copy of the particular post. It brought this on itself by posting a prurient and cruel story about the alleged sexual conduct of a finance executive employed by rival media company Condé Nast. Over the past 24 hours, Gawker, the controversial gossip blog owned by Gawker Media, has earned some extraordinary and entirely justified opprobrium.
