Gawker is a complicated beast, but there's little doubt when you're watching this documentary about where Knappenberger stands (read: pretty much a total Gawker cheerleader). Yes, we know: Gawker pushed past the niceties of traditional mainstream journalism, which led to good and bad things-some articles of seemingly little news value, but also powerful pieces that held public figures and institutions accountable. In fact, because this trial was something media reporters had been obsessing about for months on end, all of the points this documentary seemed to want to make were almost overfamiliar to me. Not only did I see themes familiar to me as a journalist, I was also in the uncanny position of seeing onetime colleagues appear in a documentary (full disclosure: I was an intern at Gawker’s tech site, Gizmodo, for six months in 2011). I would actually argue that reporting on the saga may have brought me too close to the action. Davey, you watched this whole thing unfold much more closely than I did was there anything in this doc that really struck you? Moreover, do you think it’ll be as riveting for the average Netflix-surfer as it is for people in our field?ĭavey Alba: As a quick aside, these published conversations have always looked like so much fun from the business desk-I’m glad I have an excuse to do one! But I digress. I hope that people who don’t work in journalism can take something away from this. I am the target audience-I have a vested interest in people understanding attacks on the First Amendment. Then again, I work in the very industry Knappenberger’s movie seems dead-set on defending and protecting. Moreover, he’s able to show how the Gawker/Hogan case could have a chilling effect on media in a way I would imagine not everyone really considers. Now, he does it with Gawker’s role in the media in America. He did it with Anonymous in We Are Legion and with Aaron Swartz in The Internet’s Own Boy. Angela Watercutter: As a documentarian, Knappenberger has a knack for showing how individual people and movements can have much wider ramifications.
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