Gawker asks Canadians where ‘Crackstarter’ money should go
Posted June 17, 2013 5:13 pm.
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Gawker is looking for suggestions on where to donate the money raised to buy a video of Mayor Rob Ford allegedly smoking crack cocaine.
Editor John Cook, who broke the Ford story and started the crowd-funding campaign to buy the alleged video and post it online for the public to see, said despite holding out hope that the video will still surface he’s preparing to donate the funds to a Canadian non-profit organization that helps people suffering from addiction.
Gawker met its $200,000 goal on May 27 but announced shortly after that the video’s owner told their intermediary that the video was “gone.”
Cook said he would wait a month to see if a copy of video would surface but so far none has and that preparations to give the money away as promised must be made.
He said so far the two front-runners for the money, which totals $184,689.81 after online fees by Indiegogo and Paypal, are the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and the Toronto Harm Reduction Task Force, but they are still taking suggestions.
Cook said they are looking for a single beneficiary large enough to absorb a donation of this size.
Suggestions can be posted here.
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