Here at Gawker, we look up to so few people — and look down on so many. Very rarely, however, we are impressed, and we can't help but scream at our cowering assistants: is someone perhaps bitchier than us? Greg Lindsay, writing yesterday in Women's Wear Daily, is one such exemplar of bitchitude. In an item on Gawker and the glamorous career of its founding editor Elizabeth Spiers, he insinuates that Ms. Spiers was fired from Gawker (untrue), and that, furthermore, "Spiers," he writes, "is 'on vacation' [from Gawker] in the offices of New York magazine..." Yeah, kind of like New York's Intelligencer column co-byline said on Monday, scoop. Mr. Lindsay also took the time to snark upcoming Gawker Media projects porn website Fleshbot and Gawker LA as "socially redeeming." God, we certainly hope not.
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