BBC Lends Helping Hand to Gawker vs Thiel

Paypal founder is 'vindictive comic book villain'.

While the BBC appears to be on the Gawker side out of corporate solidarity (freedom of speech blah blah blah), there is mostly gloom and doom for Gawker (and Jalopnik).

When I started my TTAC Attack Death Watch I didn't realize that Jalopnik might actually pip it at the (death) post.

Gawker Jalopnik Shuts Down Budapest Bureau, Kicks Mate Petrany Out

Gawker Jalopnik (er... whoever) has abruptly shut down its "Budapest Office" and kicked Mate Petrany out without warning, logging them all out of all accounts.

More on that later. pic.twitter.com/hxJ3QaM46E

— Máté Petrány (@petrany) 17 мая 2016 г.

Gawker's Budapest editorial team was fired today, which means I no longer work for the company, meaning @Jalopnik . Thanks.

— Máté Petrány (@petrany) 17 мая 2016 г.

Hey, Jalops, what's going on?

I mean of course Mate Petrany (who?) is quite the pillar of automotive journalism (probably not) but still how about observing the requirements of applicable employment laws and providing required notice, severance pay, etc.? Huh?

Petrany, if I were you I'd sue the bastards for another half million and break their back good.

I also call on all Jalop hacks umm... writers to go on strike or something.

Remember, today Petrany tomorrow you!

Gawker on Chris Evans Flashing

Gawker (Jezebel and Jalopnik) are trying to raise a stink about BBC Top Gear host Chris Evans flashing his colleagues at work in the past.

Several men and women who worked with Chris Evans in the ’90s claim the BBC Top Gear host was known for exposing himself on the job.

The former colleagues who worked with Evans on the show The Big Breakfast (which started airing in 1992) allege that he showed his penis to multiple people in their office.