by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The media book “Traffic” from Ben Smith is really good. I highly recommend it if you’re a media nerd like me. There was a minimum amount of eye-rolling on my part and maybe a little too much skipping on some chapters that I already had a very concrete opinion on.
One thing I did enjoy was the talk about Gawker founder Nick Denton (who has blocked me on Twitter because of my Gawker obsession.) It is very interesting that Smith skipped over some notable things in Gawker history — like when Denton published a gruesome picture of a guy with pruning sheers through his face on the blog’s front page without warning.
Anyway, it’s a good book. It’s very well written.
