Nick Denton

“You started a conversation that was not on television when you began,” the former Daily Show host told Wilmore on his last show.

Peter Thiel must be smiling today, as the out publisher of Gawker had to go bankrupt to pay Hulk Hogan $140M.

The New York company said in the filing that it has as much as $500 million in debt and up to $100 million in assets.

Here’s the story where your comments are what’s news.

in an open letter published on Gawker, Denton challenges Thiel to an “open and public debate.”

Gawker’s Nick Denton contended the content was a newsworthy commentary on the ordinariness of celebrity sex videos.

At one point, attorney Kenneth Terkel had Nick Denton read aloud the explicit post.