JK Trotter
Former Gawker Writer Slams Retracted Report, Says Site Is Now "Short of Grownups in the Room"
(Photo: Adam Weinstein) Adam Weinstein is one of Gawker's smartest and most talented voices. For the past couple of years he's written largely about national security under the "Fortress America" side-blog, bringing real depth and insight to the usual Gawker snark and creating ...read more
The Giant, Ridiculous Soap Opera That Is Matt Taibbi's Departure from First Look Media
(Photo: Robert Johnson/Business Insider) Part of what we do here is write about the media and there's nothing more inside baseball than writing about the media. There are more jokes than I can count that involve journalists breathlessly detailing the comings and goings of other ...read more
Attention Gawker: Can We Please Cut the Gay Innuendo Bullshit?
Gawker Senior Gay Affairs Correspondent J.K. Trotter is a man who knows a big story when he sees one and he's never anything less than relentless in the pursuit of it. He's the Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who broke bombshell after bombshell in the landmark Shepard ...read more
Gawker Won't Let It Go, Doubles-Down on Report That Shepard Smith was Demoted for Wanting To Come Out at Fox News
It's at the point where I'm becoming concerned about giving Gawker any more attention over its Shepard Smith obsession than it's already received. Last week, as you probably know, Gawker's dedicated "Shep Smith Is Gay" reporter J.K. Trotter published his latest piece on the ...read more
Just How Wrong Is Gawker's Story About Shepard Smith (and Does It Matter Anyway)?
Over the past few days one of two things has happened: J.K. Trotter's latest piece attempting to out Shepard Smith has blown up in his face because it's littered with factual errors or Fox News's viciously effective PR machine has earned its keep for another week by circling the ...read more
Gawker Claims Fox News "Stuffed Shepard Smith Back in the Closet"
**** See Update Here **** Shepard Smith, or rather the outing of Shepard Smith, has been the white whale of Gawker's J.K. Trotter for months now. Trotter was the one who "broke the story" about Shep losing his cool at a Manhattan bar back in October of last year, which provided ...read more
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Gawker Still Wants Shepard Smith To Say He's Gay, Will Publicly Harass Him Until It Happens
Let's go over this one more time for the cheap seats: No matter how strongly Gawker may believe otherwise, Shepard Smith's sexual orientation is not news unless he chooses to make it news. (And even then it might not be news.) Yesterday, Shep Smith's dedicated stalker J.K. ...read more