Gawker axes ValleyWag editor

Turns out that there are lines that Gawker Media will not cross, such as daring one of its subjects to file a lawsuit. Gawker has fired Nick Douglas, editor of the Silicon Valley-based ValleyWag. Apparently, Douglas had been getting out of control - even by Gawker standards - and might have sealed his fate when he said in an interview that "we're really trying to get News Corp. to sue us." Gawker's Lockhart Steele said in a memo announcing the firing that "we don’t report stories to 'finally get sued.' We report stories because we think they deserve to be out there. Whatever follows from them is whatever follows from them. Sarcasm or not, it’s quotes like these that could make us look really foolish — or worse — down the road."