Now Gawker has its own billionaire backer, sort of

File - In this May 21, 1999 file photo, eBay chief executive officer Meg Whitman, left, and Pierre Omidyar, eBay's chairman of the board, leaf through a magazine at the company's headquarters in San Jose, Calif. The courtroom fight between former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan and news-and-gossip site Gawker is becoming a battleground for Silicon Valley tycoons as well. First Look Media, a news organization financed by Omidyar, philanthropist and the co-founder of eBay, is reaching out to other media o