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Lauren Weinstein: If MTV Calls, Hang Up

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-only-it-had-been-live-instead dept.

Lauren Weinstein writes "Usually when one gets a call to participate in a news-oriented television program, subterfuge isn't a worry. But in the brave new world of 'newsertainment' -- a blurring of news and entertainment -- you really need to watch your back. Herein is the sordid tale (posted last night to Dave Farber's "IP" list) of what recently happened to me -- and my narrow escape -- when Viacom/MTV Networks came calling, asking for my help to educate the world's youth about important topics (in this case, the scourge of spam). Be warned. It could happen to you!"

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  1. Re:I Loooooove the Daily Show by EvanED · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bull. Fox is significantly further right than CNN is to the left. CNN is owned by AOL/TW. As with almost all large companies, most of the people who have a significant say in AOL/TW are republicans. Pressure filters down the paths from high up to keep the news reporting mostly moderate.

  2. Re:You're all so funny. by dasmegabyte · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dude, the guy is an activist for spam email. You know: the shit you can get rid of by pressing the delete key, or en masse by installing SpamAssassin. Easy shit...and yet, this guy is an ACTIVIST for it.

    He deserves to be made fun of, he really does. I'd also make fun of Bobby Fisher for his racism, Roman Pulanski for his paedophilia and Mel Gibson for his jesus complex.

    Brilliant people who devote their lives to stupid things make GREAT comedy. Ever see the Daily Show sketch with the guy who devoted his life to a Museum of Menstruation?

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  3. Re:For those that just read the summary by Bob+Uhl · · Score: 0, Troll
    Yeah, Lauren was originally a man's name. So, too, I believe Ashley. Also McKenzie (which is really a last name) and Schuyler (pron. sky-ler). For some reason, Americans have a love affair with giving girls boys' names. American women also cut their hair short, like boys, and remove hair from their arms and legs, so as to look like boys. This is possibly so that they may more easily attract the attention of American men, most of whom spend all their time watching sports such as football--in which men wearing spandex touch one another's bottoms--and basketball--in which men run about in stylised underwear.

    Sick, no?