NEW YORK -- Gawker editor Alex Pareene said he's not worried about his reporters losing out on campaign access or micro-scoops as the site, once known for puncturing the egos of Manhattan's media machers, shifts its focus to politics. "If they burn someone’s press secretary, it’s not going to be the end of the world," Pareene told The Huffington Post. "We don’t have to rely on access. We’re going to be putting people on the trail, but we’re not going to be a Beltway, access-driven political site." Pareene once pilloried political elites as a writer for D.C.-based blog Wonkette, which Gawker sold in 2008, and later for Gawker and Salon, for which he famously...
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