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“And the word ‘the’ is spelled wrong in the prompter.”
All right. As anyone who knows me would testify, I am not a fan of Ann Coulter. (I respect her opinions, sure, but I totally loathe her.) Nor am I a fan of Laura Ingraham.
However, the video clip I’ve seen on all sorts of sites about the Interweb today? And the ensuing comments?
Whatever.
That clip is about working on television and dealing with an inept staff who cannot support your ass when you are the one on live television (fact checkers, producers, make-up, production whores who tell you if it’s 15 or 30 seconds to air?, listening to real people versus voices in the pud in your ear?, etc.).
Yeah, she’s a bitchy conservative.
But even I would have been a bitchy liberal under those conditions. She was just doing her job.
(Also please note the heavily edited cuts? I think that’s saying something. And also please note my favorite quote, “We’re going to tell you about that! When we come back! [pause] [smile quickly fades after prompt] If one more person opens that door?! I am going to nail that door shut during the show!”)
I would have said the same thing. Sorry, folks.
Is it bad form to reblog someone’s post without giving credit?I don’t know, is it? Whoever posted this first?
I think so, yes. I mean, yes, “technically,” anyone could find these things that are so freely and frequently “blogged” and “reblogged” on Tumblr. This is the Internet, though, so, duh, we can find it anywhere, sans citations.
But site meters and site stats are a nice indication of who has picked up what and from you.
So, a nice via would be nice? Maybe? If you did find it from somewhere?
I look at it like I look at all of those papers I wrote in undergrad, when I worked so diligently to properly cite the words and the images and the ideas of my source(s). Granted, an emo photograph of Grace Kelly found on the Internet is not the same as a paragraph from Derrida regarding writing and difference, but, a citation would still be nice.
Also, yet another “reblog”.
[Thank you for correcting that egregious typo in the headline, btw, Julia.]
I would be more inclined to side with Julia Allison on this debate, and in my own words I would say, “Get over it.” I did. I spent my own days as a flame-war-starting online whore, and received my own kind of Internet comeuppance as some sort of karmic retribution. And you know what? I dealt with it. Got sad. Laughed it off. Et cetera. Did I ever think once about taking it to court? Of course not. This is the Internet, people: once you step into it, if you’re not, you know, twelve years old (or Jason Calacanis, apparently), you know what to expect. The judge’s citation of free speech in regard to the Barbara Bauer case was totally correct, because those opinions of her at the time were expressed by others who, well? That was their truth.
Yes, Rachel Sklar, I agree that truth should count online (um, as it should count in the real world, but also equally as rarely does not), but your truth might not be the same as my truth, or Barbara Bauer’s truth, etc. We have not reached a point yet at which the legal system can accurately navigate the Internet culture. And until you have that? I think it is really difficult to police “truth” online in the way you suggest.
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