‘Gawker’ Gets Hate For Publishing David Geithner Article About $2,500 Gay Porn Escort Offer – Editor Defends Married Man’s Outing
An article on Gawker titled “Condé Nast’s CFO Tried To Pay $2,500 for a Night With a Gay Porn Star” has received more than 411,000 views and counting.
Filed under the “sex” category and published on Thursday, July 16, at 8:26 p.m. by writer Jordan Sargent, the piece has certainly lit up the Interwebs with controversy. Replete with photos and lots of text message exchanges allegedly between David Geithner and a gay porn star, the article is being panned by some who felt Gawker was outing David.
Many of the tweets about Gawker focus on blaming Gawker for outing Geithner as reportedly gay — instead of focusing on the side of the story with the real hook: that David is a married father with three children who allegedly approached a gay porn star to meet for a sexual tryst, as reported by USA Today.
Max Read, Gawker’s Editor-in-Chief, tweeted his defense of the Geithner gay piece.
“Given the chance Gawker will always report on married c-suite executives of major media companies f****** around on their wives.”
The fact that Geithner is a prominent man — brother to former United States Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner and CFO of Condé Nast — gives the Gawker piece legs. The allegations from Gawker that David offered to pay a gay porn star $2,500 for two or three hours of sex is what’s setting the Gawker post on fire.
“Ryan” — the name given to the escort by Gawker — says his failed meeting with Geithner fell apart when David refused to help him with a housing issue.
Perez Hilton threw his opinion into the matter, tracking down the man he claims is at the heart of the alleged blackmail, shakedown attempt.
@Gawker This blackmailing rentboy is clearly unwell, with a long history of pathological lying! Shameful of you! https://t.co/UT1uRB5MYU
— Perez Hilton (@PerezHilton) July 17, 2015
Meanwhile, the backlash against Gawker is baffling to some writers who view the angle about a man married to a female in Larchmont, New York — as says David’s profile on Condé Naste — being newsworthy and relevant.
.@Gawker slammed for outing a married Condé Naste exec who allegedly arranged to meet a male escort: http://t.co/ZrLTGA9z0I
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) July 17, 2015
As reported by the Inquisitr, Gawker was one of the websites that dug through the Sony leaked emails to reveal Hollywood racism and sexism. Gawker let the world know that Angelina Jolie was called “seriously out of her mind” in the leaked Sony emails from Scott Rudin.
[Image via Gawker]
