“But the tragedy of today’s filing is that Nick Denton has no real control over that outcome. He built Gawker Media, and has devoted the past 14 years of his life to it. Now, he’s probably going to see his company disappear into the hands of one of the media moguls that Gawker was created to skewer. That’s nothing to be sanguine about.”
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