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We ve been listening, dear readers. You absolutely love our absurdist Radar coverage. You think it s clever and compelling. You think it s hilarious. You want more. You demand it. You crave it.

But there's no pleasing everyone in this business. Some of you a small minority, sure think we ve gone too far. Us? Fuck a duck! Guess what? We don't give a shit. Huzzah! We live in a democratic free market capitalist society. Take advantage of it.

Back to your email. A week of pointed, hurtful grievances after the jump. -KEW

i think its cute that you think there are more than maybe 40 people in the world that would care about a pie being thrown at nick denton Matt S.

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This Radar thing is by far the most tired, uninteresting, boring thing you guys have ever obsessed about. At first it was interesting, then got boring, then got funny, and now it makes me want to avoid gawker like the plague. Please, give me my old, funny gawker back. Don t tell me you are losing your sense of humor.

Matt [H]

PS: No more Radar. For real.

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who cares about radar?????? suzanne l.

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Subject: the intervention

dear gawker,

i love you very, very much. and that's why-as sandy cohen has taught- i have to do this. you have a problem, and it's starting to affect your work and family. apart from being destructive, which it is — yes it is, YES it is — your addiction to anything related to radar is boring. it's coming between us, and i am not the only one who feels this way. you know that. this isn't the first time you've been told this. this has been going on for a long time. you are out of control. in a very tedious way.

i try — every day i get up, fire up the internet, and browse you during my first coffee break. these moments used to bring me such delight! you were innovative and your point of view fresh and fun. and if sometimes you were a little olson-happy, i forgave you that. it was endearing, your cute occasional indulgence. but this is different. this is hurting us, and it's driving us apart. i can't be around you when you're like this. now when i see you in the morning i assume the worse — to protect myself — and, lately, i am usually right. and this morning .......... running the same picture of the same event for the eleventieth day in a row ........... you broke me. you have a problem, and you need to get help.

can't you see that you're destroying yourself? so, so boring. please— no more radar.
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warmest personal regards,
sam

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Dear Gawker:

We read your site all the time because it's so witty and mean and cutting and so totally irrelevant, just like our pop culture and hose who adhere to its tenets, but please please please please ... enough with Radar and Maer Roshan and Nick Denton and Matt Drudge and who threw what pie. No one cares. Luv you!

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Hey Bitch,

Yikes, it appears your Gawker audience really loves the nonstop Radar fuck-fest you have going on.

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Man are you that gay that you can t come up with your own news? You have to read Drudge s website before you come up with content for your website . How lame are you? Very apparently. Steven P.


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What the fuck has happened to your site? Every fucking item for the last two weeks has been about "Radar."

WE DON'T FUCKING GIVE A SHIT!

You are ruining Gawker! Cut the shit!

Love,
A Former Gawker Fan

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I love your site.

But this Radar coverage is esoteric to the max.

I know you know. It's just that Gawker usually makes the day go by much faster, but now...

What's the deal?

J.

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Subject: this is not radar hate mail

..but i just don't get the obsession.

i still love you, but its just not funny.

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Subject: STOP THE MADNESS
Love your site, read it everyday. But your Anderson Cooper and Radar magazine obsession is sooooooo dull. I skip all of it now. Who cares about either of these?Get back to gawking!

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Enough with Radar, really.

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Dear Editor:

Judging from the Roshon/Denton/Drudge/Gawker contratemps, it's looking more and more like we're graduating from a straightforward gay fight to a full on gay war. If there are going to "preemptive invasions," would someone please let me know where to be and when?

-Spencer

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Hey I know you Gawkers are obsessed at this point. You re worse then 14 year old Muslim boys with grenades slung to their vest ready to pounce on an Israeli supermarket when it comes to Radar.

But just so you know, the greatest magazine re-launch is going to be ANIMAL (www.animalnewyork.com). Set for September 2005.

And we don t have $25 million and all this fanfare. However I still plan on whipping Maer s and Zuckerman s add on 1/100th the budget. And I certainly would never stoop to having a blog that looks like it belongs in a maxi-pad. All that money and this is the best they can come up with.

Radar was dead before it even started and don t you all dare to take the credit.

So time to get off the Radar for a bit and talk about what really counts, the ANIMAL.

BUCKY TURCO