This has been the reality of the world we live in for decades now.
It doesn’t mean much, but it’s also an important truth to know. Go ahead and Google any production company you can think of and you’ll find it’s owned by one of the big six – there are essentially six CEOs that determine all of the print, music, and visual entertainment (and news) that gets made in the U.S. While there has been a few name changes, as of 2020 the companies are CBS, Comcast, Disney, News Corp, Viacom, and now AT&T because they purchased Time Warner. All the other companies that exist out there are owned by other bigger corporations, and those ones are owned by even bigger ones until you get to the top of the food chain where only six companies exist. It’s been long understood that there are only six corporations that run all of the media industry. There are people acting aghast that a single person can determine the type of content that gets made, or that a single company can have so much control over the stories that are or are not told, but this isn’t new. So, Cook sent an email and Scraper was shutdown. Gawker also outed Tim Cook as gay, forcing Cook to officially come out whether he wanted to or not. Gawker, of course, ran stories about it, which didn’t reflect the company very well. Cook has a history with Gawker and it isn’t one he’s fond of.īefore Cook was the head of Apple, Gawker had run articles about Apple that were less than glowing – including the time a Gawker employee got hold of an early version of the iPhone 4 and Apple sent police to raid an editor’s home. Apparently Cook caught wind of Scraper and was immediately displeased. Shows get cancelled or thrown into production limbo for silly reasons all the time – Scraper was cancelled by Apple executive Tim Cook himself. The show has been axed by Apple and is now seeking a new production and distribution company. This was a fictionalized show about Gawker not-so-secretly hiding under a pseudonym. The tie to the now defunct media company is plain as day, and the scripts were apparently very clearly inspired by the company that once was. Later the show hired Emma Carmichael and Leah Beckmann as writers, also former Gawker editors. Read is a former editor-in-chief of the Gawker company. Scraper was a show created by two former Gawker employees, Cord Jefferson and Max Read.
In fact, one could argue that Gawker was one of the big forces behind the world of click-bait we now live in.Īpple TV+ was going to create a show inspired by the boundary-pushing media company called Scraper, however the show was canned shortly before production began. Gawker loved to write articles that would catch people’s attention and cause wide-eyed gaping stares – hence their company name. The various sites Gawker ran, such as Gizmodo, still exist and are pumping out articles on the daily, but the parent company was sued until it failed. Time on the internet seems to function differently than time in the real world, so the media company Gawker going bust only four years ago, in 2016, is nearly akin to a digital lifetime. The name Gawker surely sounds familiar to you, but it may also feel like a name you haven’t heard in ages.
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The website was forced in bankruptcy in 2016 when former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan won a $140 million verdict against them for publishing his unauthorized sex tape. The company did not comment on the reported cancellation. Gawker infamously outed Cook as gay in 2008 and its sister site Gizmodo somehow got ahold of an iPhone 4 in 2010, causing a long legal battle. The show is now being shopped around to other outlets. The show, called “Scraper,” was sold to Apple TV by two former Gawker staffers and had already completed several episodes before Apple pulled the plug, the Times said.Īlong with the site’s former editor-in-chief Max Read and editor Cord Jefferson, the show had also recruited former editors Emma Carmichael and Leah Beckmann, according to the report. The Apple CEO - who, along with his company, had been a frequent target of the now-defunct website - learned about the production and the project was quietly canceled, according to The New York Times. Tim Cook reportedly put the kibosh on an Apple TV production based on the notoriously snarky gossip website Gawker. Gawker begs readers to have an ‘open mind and heart’ in quiet relaunchįirebrand writer tapped to bring Gawker back from the deadįormer Gawker editor withdraws defamation lawsuit against ex-employee
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