THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

So much of what we – what I – produced was utterly frivolous and intentionally disposable, in a way that certain types of journalism have always been.  The listicles and clickbait of early aughts culture may differ in many ways from the penny press tabloids of the 1800s, but in this, they are the same: they are meant to be thrown away.

Rosenfield/Reason

A company of bomb throwers can’t start hiding the evidence when a bomb goes astray.  There should be a record of your fuck-ups and your triumphs, too. [Gawker’s archive is] a record of how life was lived and covered on the internet for an era.  Taking that away is leaving a huge hole in our understanding.

Tommy Craggs in Bustillos/Columbia