Gawker Exec Editor and Editor in Chief Resign

Good riddance.

Screen Shot 2015-07-20 at 12.34.52 PMGawker Media’s executive editor Tommy Craggs and Gawker.com’s editor in chief Max Read have both resigned. The departures come in the aftermath of a terrible post by writer Jordan Sargent, which needlessly outed a married executive.

In separate notes to Gawker staffers, Craggs and Read both put on their best holier-than-thou attitudes and failed to do the only thing any decent person would do at this point: Admit that they were wrong to publish the post.

Instead,

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