To the outside world last week's creeps-on-Reddit takedown kerfuffle looked like a defense of pornography while the Reddit community framed it as a defense of freedom of speech. However, a recent leaked chat between Redditors and and the site's actual employees suggest that what they fear most is being Reddited themselves.
Jessica Grose's debut novel, Sad Desk Salad, featuring the character of Alex Lyons, a writer for "Chick Habit, an increasingly popular women's website" (a la Jezebel and Slate's Double X, both sites at which Grose blogged), is out this week from William Morrow/Harper Collins.
It's the second round of our Battle of the Brackets and after resounding victories, Jezebel and and its Gawker Media cousin, io9, go head to head, while the NCAA College Basketball Bracket takes on Muppet Madness.
Progressive shoe wearers don't like the company's alignment with Focus on the Family
Love accuses site of "slut shaming," Jezebel begs to differ
Was Good Morning America duped?
The tabloid claimed that Strauss-Kahn's alleged victim may be HIV-positive
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