Hulk Hogans awarded $115m after sex tape published

Delighted that this will probably put Gawker out of business.

This is the company that refused to take down Hogans sex tape because it was "of public interest" because he is famous but their feminist site "Jezebel" kicked up an unmerciful stink about The Fappening saying that the legal system should step in to have all the images taken down. The same site has gone on numerous witch hunts against people or groups accused of sexism without doing their due diligence and they never apologize when they (often) get it wrong.

They spoke about the pics of Jennifer Lawerence in particular because they claimed it would ruin her career. A couple of months later one of the other Gawker owned sites published the leaked pics of Kate Upton and Justin Verlander and even went so far as to map out where the pictures were taken by matching the dates on the .jpg files to Verlanders baseball schedule.

They once had an article about women being violent towards their partners in the home and it was the most flippant, dismissive, "we'll you know what i mean girls, sometimes they can be annoying " thing ever.

During the Hogan case one of the guys involved in the publishing of the sex tape said that they considered it fair publish game to publish sex scandal stuff about any notable celeb "over the age of 4". The lawyer asking the question was legitimately shocked by that answer and asked the guy to confirm his statement and he denied saying it literally ten seconds after he had said it. They even read back the court record of him saying it straight away.

A scummy organisation that shows how clueless some aspects of the "new" media and internet journalism are.

I hope Hogans theme music started playing in the courtroom when the verdict was announced.

Was it really recorded on VHS?

lawlolawl wrote: »

Yeah, apparently the original $115m was 30m more than the company is worth so the news that there was another 25m going to Hogan has pretty much definitely killed the company unless they can find an investor to save them.

Is there any way Hogan can become the sole owner of Gawker through all of this? Why is the idea of Hulk Hogan owning a major news website really funny to me?

lawlolawl wrote: »

Delighted that this will probably put Gawker out of business.

This is the company that refused to take down Hogans sex tape because it was "of public interest" because he is famous but their feminist site "Jezebel" kicked up an unmerciful stink about The Fappening saying that the legal system should step in to have all the images taken down. The same site has gone on numerous witch hunts against people or groups accused of sexism without doing their due diligence and they never apologize when they (often) get it wrong.

They spoke about the pics of Jennifer Lawerence in particular because they claimed it would ruin her career. A couple of months later one of the other Gawker owned sites published the leaked pics of Kate Upton and Justin Verlander and even went so far as to map out where the pictures were taken by matching the dates on the .jpg files to Verlanders baseball schedule.

They once had an article about women being violent towards their partners in the home and it was the most flippant, dismissive, "we'll you know what i mean girls, sometimes they can be annoying " thing ever.

During the Hogan case one of the guys involved in the publishing of the sex tape said that they considered it fair publish game to publish sex scandal stuff about any notable celeb "over the age of 4". The lawyer asking the question was legitimately shocked by that answer and asked the guy to confirm his statement and he denied saying it literally ten seconds after he had said it. They even read back the court record of him saying it straight away.

A scummy organisation that shows how clueless some aspects of the "new" media and internet journalism are.

I hope Hogans theme music started playing in the courtroom when the verdict was announced.

Lol...you can almost see him doing this

http://www.totalprosports.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hulk-hogan-shirt-tear-hulk-hogan-gifs.gif

Think he claims he invented MMA as well.

Also, he overstates Andre the Giants weight by about 200lbs any time he talks about that one time he body slammed him. And he claimed it happened in front of an audience of 100000 people but WWE/F have never had an event with that kind of attendance figure.

There is no line between the character Hulk Hogan and man Terry Bollea.

He has become his gimmick.

Everything is a work with him.