I’ve been sitting here for 10 minutes thinking about this video and it’s message and I’m not sure I agree with her. I know, I know, I am the black sheep and must be an awful human being. She took a letter, from a viewer (arguably) directed at her leadership and turned it into an attack on children. This man was not calling a child fat, nor telling his child that fat is an acceptable insult. Rather, he was insulting a grown woman who’s chosen profession puts her in the spotlight. It really isn’t even insulting. Again, I know, “fat is a cruel word and etc etc etc.” Listen, America has become weak and pathetic. This is a nation where Homosexuality is a choice and being fat is a disease. BULLSHIT. If you’re fat, go get on a treadmill and eat less. I was fat. I got on a treadmill and ate less. Yes, I know, “it’s so hard.” Well maybe this is the price you pay to be on camera. Stop turning this around to some bullying problem in America. When I was in school people got the shit kicked out of them. There were fights every day. I was jumped 3 times during my youth. Now kids whine because someone called them fat? Grow a pair. Get your ass on a treadmill or shut the hell up. Stop video recording fights and insults, stop showing private emails insulting you. end effin rant.
You watched that video and sat there for ten minutes and got this rant out of it? You should go watch it again. It was not a rant about insulting people. It was a rant about treating people with respect. Is that so hard? Sure, people have to work hard, but you know what, you don’t have to criticize or insult them or their decisions on the way down. Really, is that so hard?
(Source: jimromenesko.com)
The GOP has a history of promising, ‘Oh, we will have a vote on this issue.’ That is supposed to mean something? A vote is a joke. We do not elect these people to vote on these issues. We elect them to get something done.Judson Phillips of the Tea Party Nation doesn’t think we elect Senators and Reps into office to vote on legislation. (via pantslessprogressive)
To be clear, kids, this is exactly what James Urbaniak was satirizing earlier. Sigh. These older-guard conservative-leaning blogs make us laugh sometimes, though Charles Johnson’s stuff is kinda fun to read these days.
Dear company that doesn’t get the Internet,
You know how sometimes videos go viral and have copyrighted music in them? You know how the music industry deals with this issue? Rather than taking the video down, they make a copyright claim and allow Google to put advertising on the clip, allowing the original, insanely viral clip to stay online while still getting money for it on the backend.
Remember “JK Wedding Dance”? Fifty bajillion people saw that video – so many that The Office parodied it. So many that it arguably allowed Chris Brown to still have a career, despite the fact that he was facing domestic violence charges against one of the biggest pop stars in the world. An impressive feat, and one that could’ve been quashed easily had the music industry reacted the way your paper just did.
Well, know how the music industry dealt with the copyrighted music in the clip? They had YouTube shove some ads on it. And they got paid.
Know how easy would it have been for you to do the same thing? You could’ve called YouTube and been like, “Hey guys, this clip is viral, and it’s ours, and this guy who went out of his way to make it viral for us put it up without our consent. Can we put some advertising on it?” You could’ve contacted the guy who posted it and been like, “Hey, can you put a link to the original article on top of the YouTube video? Nothing personal, we’re just struggling here.”
But no. You chose to delete it, kill thousands of embeds (including mine) and look like you’re completely oblivious to how YouTube works.
I work in the newspaper industry. I know how hard it is for you guys to stay afloat. But you chose to put the light out on a supernova instead of looking at your options.
Heck (barring the obvious ethical issues with this), you could’ve even shared the profits on the clip with Ted, seeing as the video was getting so many views on the back of a guy who some might argue is being exploited in the press.
Ben, you’re a shrewd businessman. I can see that. I’ve seen the design work your paper does thanks to the Society for News Design, and the Ohio State football stuff you guys do is incredibly business-minded and a genius way to engage readers that few papers do. Why let this all go out the window because you’re not in control of the source?
The journalism world is savaging you and your paper for this decision. Perhaps you should think about that.
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Ernie Smith
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