![]() ![]() He is represented by Jim Jackoway of Jackoway, Tyerman. He began his career as a programming executive at NBC. Prior to forming Blackrock, he was President of Programming at Current TV, Chief Programming Officer at CNN, former President of Walt Disney Television and President of Programming at Channel One. Neuman’s company Blackrock Productions, Inc., focuses on developing, financing and producing content for all platforms. “The talent we’re talking to will help us tip the scale one way or another.” “We’re very far along in exploring both options,” said Neuman. Neuman is looking to develop the source material either for the big screen or limited TV series. A,’ who orchestrated the conspiracy behind the scenes. ![]() Holiday’s book hit bookshelves last Tuesday and the author wrote the book with access and cooperation from all players involved including Hogan, Denton, and Thiel, Hogan’s lawyer, Charles Harder, and even the mysterious ‘Mr. Ryan Holiday reports in 'Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue' for the first time that a 26-year-old who goes by the pseudonym 'Mr. The suit, which resulted in a $140 million judgment against Gawker, and Gawker’s subsequent bankruptcy, has also set legal precedent involving privacy and the media. Some will cheer Gawker's destruction and others will lament it, but after reading these pages-and seeing the access the author was given-no one will deny that there is something ruthless and brilliant about Peter Thiel's shocking attempt to shake up the world.Thiel secretly funded Hogan’s successful lawsuit and triumphant win against the publishing group over their publication of a sex-tape involving Hogan. And, in fact, there's a picture that Peter Thiel, the right-wing billionaire who destroyed Gawkera picture of Peter Thiel, Donald Trump and Erik Prince, that Peter Thiel says is not safe for the internet. It's a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious-and successful-secret plots in recent memory. Prince was also at the 'Heroes and Villains' party that Mercer threw in Long Island after the election. Why had he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would this mean-for the First Amendment? For privacy? For culture? In Holiday's masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by interviews with all the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how one billionaire took down a media empire or the current state of the free press. The verdict would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. He would come to pit Hogan against Gawker in a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, while Gawker remained confidently convinced they would prevail as they had over so many other lawsuit-until it was too late. Thiel saw their publication of the tape as the opportunity he was looking for. For years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he'd come to call the "Gawker Problem." When an unmarked envelope delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hogan with his best friend's wife, Gawker had seen the chance for millions of pageviews and to say the things that others were afraid to say. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental-it had been masterminded by Thiel. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, out of a job. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018! A stunning story about how power works in the modern age-the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting.an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read." Pick up the book everyone is talking about. ![]()
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