Episode 125: Tarpley's Hitt Job Reveals The Sad State Of Gawker 2.0 And We Remember The Railroading Of Andy Signore
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Gawker is (still) back and (still) worse than ever — just ask Thomas Chatterton Williams. And you may not know the name “Andy Signore,” but if you do it’s probably because he was rather comprehensively #MeTooed back in 2017. Except he provided a lot of evidence to suggest he was innocent — evidence all the media outlets that piled on him seem to have ignored.
Links:
Gawker:
Oldest available version of the article (already updated)
Thomas Chatterton Williams denies, claims he wasn’t even in the same city at the time
What remains of the article now
https://www.gawker.com/media/losers-pal-around-at-alex-jones-film-premiere
What’s going on at Reveal?
https://www.gawker.com/media/whats-going-on-at-reveal
Foot-dragging on a Jesse-related correction:
https://www.gawker.com/media/oh-no-the-anti-trans-bigotry-we-loved-is-starting-to-feel-homophobic
Andy Signore:
The allegations against him
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/business/sexual-harassment-whisper-network.html
Andy’s subsequent firing
April Dawn’s public accusations
Emma Bowers’ allegations
Andy Signore’s video, giving his version of events
The texts released by Signore
Other articles — not the absence of exculpatory evidence once it was available:
https://mashable.com/article/screen-junkies-andy-signore-sexual-harassment
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/business/sexual-harassment-whisper-network.html
https://variety.com/2017/digital/features/sexual-harassment-new-media-silicon-valley-1202589890/
https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/andy-signore-sues-sexual-harassment-firing-1202914917/
https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/andy-signore-defy-media-settlement-1203252975
Image: PHILADELPHIA, PA - JUNE 03: Andy Signore of Screen Junkies on Day 2 of Wizard World Comic Con Philadelphia 2016 held at Pennsylvania Convention Center on June 3, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/WireImage)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jesse, how you doing? |
| 0:12.5 | I'm hanging in there Katie. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm a little bit sick. |
| 0:16.1 | And you're still working? |
| 0:17.1 | God, you are a brave strong man. |
| 0:19.8 | They've always called me the hardest working man in show business. |
| 0:22.3 | Uh huh. |
| 0:23.3 | Is this what this is? |
| 0:24.3 | Is this a podcast technically show business? |
| 0:25.3 | I'm going to start telling people that. |
| 0:27.0 | What do you do? |
| 0:28.0 | I'm in show business. |
| 0:29.0 | And then they ask follow up questions. |
| 0:30.5 | You're like, that's all I can say. |
| 0:32.5 | You wouldn't understand. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah, I took a little trip up to Vermont just to solo get away to work and climb mountains. |
| 0:39.7 | And along the way, I got a little bit sick, which is rough. |
| 0:42.6 | So we're going to see if my voice can hold out. |
| 0:45.7 | I know I sound even more sultry and sexy than usual. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm like, hey, you sound like there are two tampons in your nose right now. |
| 0:51.4 | Well, I was going to say something much more pleasant, which is I sound like very, very |
| 0:55.1 | white with tuberculosis, but we'll go with your, your tampon thing. |
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