Gawker Editor: N-Word Did Not Get Blogger Fired

It’s clear that using the word “nigga” in a post didn’t exactly help Seth Abramovitch’s career at Gawker. But A.J. Daulerio, the site’s new editor, felt the need to write his own blog post explaining that was not what got Abramovitch fired. Or not the only thing. From Gawker:

To mitigate some of the damage done to his professional reputation as a result of my ill-timed public dismissal of him, I’d like to reiterate here that there were other factors before and after this DONDA mess which led to it.

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