Not only did I see themes familiar to me as a journalist, I was also in the uncanny position of seeing onetime colleagues appear in a documentary (full disclosure: I was an intern at Gawker’s tech site, Gizmodo, for six months in 2011). I would actually argue that reporting on the saga may have brought me too close to the action. Davey, you watched this whole thing unfold much more closely than I did was there anything in this doc that really struck you? Moreover, do you think it’ll be as riveting for the average Netflix-surfer as it is for people in our field?ĭavey Alba: As a quick aside, these published conversations have always looked like so much fun from the business desk-I’m glad I have an excuse to do one! But I digress. I hope that people who don’t work in journalism can take something away from this. I am the target audience-I have a vested interest in people understanding attacks on the First Amendment. Then again, I work in the very industry Knappenberger’s movie seems dead-set on defending and protecting. Moreover, he’s able to show how the Gawker/Hogan case could have a chilling effect on media in a way I would imagine not everyone really considers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, he does it with Gawker’s role in the media in America. He did it with Anonymous in We Are Legion and with Aaron Swartz in The Internet’s Own Boy. Angela Watercutter: As a documentarian, Knappenberger has a knack for showing how individual people and movements can have much wider ramifications.
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