Bill Keller's Great Gawker Comeback
Former NYT executive editor provides outlet with some curt media context.
In case you missed it, this week’s very bizarre New York Times daisy chain went as follows:
1) Over the weekend, former newspaper staffer Anne Cronin (now with Bloomberg View) posted a couple of her annual “Seersucker Day” photos to a private Facebook group serving NYT alumni. The pictures show newsroom staffers re-enacting, in 1997 and 2001 respectively, the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide and a Nepalese royal family massacre.
2) An unnamed member of the Facebook group, ignoring protocol, subsequently downloaded the photos and sent them to Gawker.
3)
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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