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Mon Dec 7
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06:14 AM
How did we miss the Lingvall-Emanuel connection from back in January?
"And then entered Rahm Emanuel, his wife Amy Rule, and three beautiful kids who Geffen's Jeremy Lingvall, a great guy, promised to romp with next time the little Emanuels were in Malibu."
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06:12 AM
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12/05/09
I'll leave untouched the question of if he wasn't a male victim or an Asian one, would the victim's face be featured - Gawker's not prone to sexism or racism (to the contrary), so I think it's a slip-up unworthy of condemnation along these lines. And certainly, that wasn't Ryan Tate's aim.
Nonetheless, GawkerFolk, respectfully, can you have a quick weekend email conference on this and decide if identifying the victim so graphically is a decision that characterizes what Gawker is about?
It seems an incongruity to this humble commentator.
(Please don't shoot the messenger, y'all; let's keep everything civil)
12/06/09
I had some of the same misgivings.
In any event, from the summary (I don't need more details), a horrific case and I sincerely hope the victim prevails.
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12/04/09
PS: on a more serious note, is it standard to have sexual harassment victims pictured? I can see his boss' face blasted across the Internet, but seeing the victim's face makes me a bit queasy... Although, admittedly, I looked.
12/04/09
And they were more than a victim of sexual harassment. From the description it sounds like they were sexually assaulted.
12/06/09
I looked for a photo of Ping Jiang, but there's no way I'm going to put up one without being 100% certain of the guy's identity. Maybe Gawker should sponsor a photo contest in his honor.
12/06/09
I believe that sexual harassment usually includes acts involving sexual assault. But I agree that the use of the term may have given the wrong impression of what happened.
12/04/09
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12/04/09
I guess at SAC Capital, the golden parachute comes with its own shower.
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11/30/09
I believe that massive climate change may or may not be occurring. If it indeed is, man may or may not be making a big contribution to it. It may or may not be a normal cyclic change that occurs every so often in the planet's history. I don't take these beliefs for any religious reasons (I am an atheist). The fact is that I don't know these things because scientists themselves do not know them. Scientists in this area are often misquoted and their findings are too often pumped up to a massive degree. The fact of the matter is that the planet's climate is so complex and unpredictable, and the records until recently are so spotty, that it becomes impossible to predict with any degree of accuracy what will happen in the decades to come. With that being said, I am also all for "going green" and taking care of the environment (as well as dependency from oil), because there are many many reasons to do these things other than global warming. But the scare tactics and false urgency about a problem we yet know little about is not the way to do it.