Defamer.com fills LA gossip void
With an absence of local gossip in print in Los Angeles, Gawker Media's Defamer.com is leading "an online gossip boomlet," The New York Times reports. The site had already had more than 3 million page views in February through Thursday, and 2.5 million in January, by its own count.
"The Internet is doing what the real tabloids did in the 30's and 40's," said Neal Gabler, author of "Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity."
"The Internet is one of the great forces of empowerment," he added. "It can't be co-opted."
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