The Gawker founder was asked to read excerpts describing the sex tape from the original article,which he had previously described as ‘sweet and sympathetic’Gawker’s founder Nick Denton was subjected to gruelling questioning by a lawyer for former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan as the trial continued for a moment week in Hogan’s lawsuit over a sex video. “Read the next sweet, sympathetic paragraph, and ” Hogan’s attorney Kenneth Terkel told Denton,president of Gawker Media. The paragraph in question was from Gawker’s article on a sex tape with Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) and the wife of a friend, now at issue in Hogan’s suit against the gossip media empire. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com