![]() There are essential blanks that are not filled in.įirst, it is essential to keep in mind that the show wasn’t to be a documentary or true-life story about the actual Gawker. There’s an implied dot-dot-dot in the middle of this narrative that demands elucidation. It’s hinted at - that Cook harbors a grievance toward Gawker, for their having outed him and/or for the Gizmodo stolen iPhone 4 prototype kerfuffle, and these ill feelings led Cook to (spitefully? unclear.) cancel Apple’s production of the show - but that’s not really an explanation. The main thrust of the column is that Cook personally put the kibosh on this show, but it never explains the why. Gawker, it seems, is making trouble again. Market and the executive who brought it in, Layne Eskridge, has He expressed aĭistinctly negative view toward Gawker, the people said. Gawker, which had humiliated the company at various times andįamously outed him, back in 2008, as gay. Surprised to learn that his company was making a show about Cook, according to two people briefed on the email, was Then, an Apple executive got an email from the company’s chief Two more former Gawker editors, Emma Carmichael and Leah Beckmann,Īs writers, and they had completed several episodes, people close Service: Cord Jefferson, who left the site for a career writingįor TV, and Max Read, Gawker’s former editor in chief. Two Gawker veterans sold the idea to Apple TV+, the new streaming Mischief and headaches for America’s powerful until its targets Media, the network of aggressive, transgressive blogs that created ![]() The show was called “Scraper,” but it was clearly about Gawker Headline: “ Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. I Suppose a Roman à Clef About a Design-Obsessed California Computer Maker With a Charismatic but Mercurial Founder Whose Youthful Arrogance Leads to His Ignominious Ouster and Exile, Only to Return a Decade Later to Not Only Save the Company From Seemingly Certain Ruin but Lead Them to Theretofore Unimaginable Triumph and Renown, Is Off the Table Too Tuesday, 15 December 2020īen Smith has been doing crackerjack work writing the Media Equation column for The New York Times all year long, but his piece this weekend was pure mainline DF catnip. ![]()
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