New York magazine’s story on "Gawker and the Rage of the Creative Underclass," months in the works, is out this morning, and it accuses the site of encouraging — wait for it — a "culture of bile."

Gawker publisher Nick Denton’s pre-emptive response, which was up this morning before the story appeared, amounts, essentially, to a mildly erudite shrug.

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