Did Apple get Gawker banned from launch of News Corp.‘s The Daily?

“After months of build-up, News Corp. will unveil The Daily, its iPad-based news product, tomorrow morning at Manhattan’s Guggenheim museum, in front of an audience filled with dozens of reporters,” Jeff Bercovici reports for Forbes.

“None of those reporters will be reporting for Gawker Media sites, however; the blog network has apparently been banned,” Bercovici reports. “Numerous requests by writers from Gizmodo and Gawker to get on the guest list were met with shrugs from Rubenstein, the PR firm handling the event.”

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: TS, Gawker. You play with fire, you risk being burned. Go find a nip slip photo to run instead.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]

27 Comments

  1. Gawker media, with their boss, Nick Denton, pride themselves in bottom feeding and muckraking. Their primary purpose is to take the essence and the philosophy of gossip and apply it to various fields (half of their sites are regular gossip sites for SF, Hollywood and NY, then gossip about tech, cars, sports, video games, Sci Fi, porn, business…). He encourages his staff to seek out scandalous, salacious and compromising material. The guy obviously figured out how to make easy money; there are large masses out there who love gossip in every shape.

  2. PS:

    Who said you can’t put lipstick on a pig?

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    –verb (used with object)
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    • gold-colored.
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    gold leaf or gold paint applied in a thin layer to a surface.
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  4. Gawker Media and News International belong with each other in the landfill site of last century gutter journalism. Pandering to the retard demographic won’t work on the iPad – should’ve have targeted the higher percentile no-clue crowd buying android and winmo.

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