Defamer website slaps the kings and queens of Hollywood

Los Angeles Magazine
The Defamer — a Gawker Media website edited by Mark Lisanti — has become Hollywood’s preferred but never publicly acknowledged source of both news and attitude, says Steve Oney. A talent agency exec tells him: “I read the Defamer every day, sometimes twice a day. It’s hilarious, but it’s not the kind of thing I advertise.” Oney writes: “Few comments could better attest to Lisanti’s impact. Not only are Hollywood potentates loath to speak ill of him, they’re loath to speak well of him, for fear of offending any of the actors, directors, or moguls he’s skewered and on whom their livelihoods depend.”