Recent revelations that Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel has been quietly underwriting lawsuits against digital muckraking platform Gawker have doused new fuel on a simmering conflict between technologists and journalists. But this current dustup is about a lot more than the bad blood between these two behemoths, writes Andrea Castillo. It’s about creative destruction in news media and the friction of dealing with a world in which many of the remaining information-gatekeepers are being disrupted.
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