Gawker

From the pot and kettle file, Gawker accuses another blog of printing something "gross and cruel".

It really is quite breathtaking whenever that repository of utter callousness and total disregard for human empathy accuses others of being mean or cruel, but it happens fairly often. I think that these comments from former Gawker editor Choire Sicha are really illustrative of the core of bad faith at the heart of the project. Sicha doesn't seem to realize that where or not something is terrible has little impact on the moral content of how you talk about that something's creator or creators. And, of course, saying that snark is a dodge is itself a dodge-- Sicha is avoiding criticism in just the way he's accusing others of.

One of our jobs on this earth is to be kind. People like to say that being nice is overrated, and that may be true. But being kind most certainly is not. And Gawker abdicates that responsibility, constantly. It is incumbent upon us as compassionate beings to treat each other with basic kindness and love. That responsiblity can't be ignored or hidden, can't be distracted from or elided by, can't be pushed aside or obscured or undone by rhetoric. Gawker and its writers have moral responsibility to others on this earth, and they fail in that responsibility, again and again