Why Gawker Was Wrong for Outing Married Man

Multiple staffers should be fired for this.

Screen Shot 2015-07-17 at 8.56.11 AMBelieve it or not, Gawker just stooped to a new low. Essentially, staff writer Jordan Sargent posted about a married man’s interest in men, and likely ruined his life and the lives of his family by doing so.

It’s actually a little worse than that. The married man was attempting to hire a male escort, who—after learning that the married man was the brother of a political figure—attempted to blackmail the married man. The married man eventually backed out of the deal, and so the escort went to Gawker and “exposed” the married man.

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