banned in boston.
i cannot even handle the mooninite controversy. if you haven't heard about it yet, turner broadcasting did a stupid (awesome) thing by hiring a guerilla marketing firm to promote the aqua teen movie coming out in march. so they in turn hired this late twenties kid to put up these lite-brite mooninites all over the city, took video and stills of him doing it and put those up on a website.
fox news at 10 spent the first 15 minutes of it's broadcast last night detailing the threat...which had already been, ahem...contained. and today, fox news channel is still covering it. even better is how fox spins the recap of the day's events to make it sound like their reporters broke bits of the story. "finally, during fox and friends, it all became painfully clear what was going on here..."
things that are awesome about this story (or at least of note):
-apparently no one over thirty has ever heard of aqua teen hunger force.
-the girl in the comic book store (gwen?) with the cat-eye glasses who patiently explained both what the mooninites were and why people were freaking out ("because they had batteries and wires and now people equate that with bombs") you could almost hear her saying "or something".
-the fact that they had to go to a comic book store to get an explanation
-that the news broadcasts last night announced the release date of the athf movie-guess the ads worked.
-when they made the first arrest last night, they made sure to identify him as "immigrant peter berdovsky" because obviously it was a dirty dirty immigrant who was responsible for this.
-of course, "immigrant peter berdovsky" was a dirty dirty hippie, with wayward dreads down his back who used to be a mass art student. couldn't have gone to wentworth, could you?
-watching victoria block and other journalists trying to find polite ways to describe the mooninite picture and their role on the show. fox chose "flipping the bird", which always makes me giggle.
-that this had been happening for 3 weeks and in 9 other cities and only boston freaked.
-that the blogosphere knew all along, those dirty dirty hippie terrorists.
-of all the coverage i've seen, only the christian science monitor and fox news have suggested anything in the way of a generation gap being somewhat responsible for the problems.
**and oh. lord. this clip of the press conference they gave this morning is pretty much awesome. it's like an exercise in passive-aggressive-surrealism. they are so getting convicted, just cause a jury of their peers (right) will want to pound the spit out of them.
ok and seriously? many people are saying that this publicity stunt gone wrong is ultimately bad for the movie it was promoting, saying that so many people are upset about this that the negative impact will greatly outweigh any positive that comes with any publicity. but uh, really, i think this is hysterical. i can't be the only one. (and i couldn't even tell you the last time i saw an episode of aqua-teen). and the people who are really pissed off about this? didn't even know that the show existed (obviously) and probably weren't the people the movie is targeted at.
also, am i the only one who thinks it's kind of ridiculous that they arrested the guy who put these up? they charged him with disturbing the peace and (i believe) a felony count of creating a hoax. he put up pieces of advertising after being hired basically by a multinational media corporation. it's like he put up a billboard that someone misconstrued as a wmd. did he do something wrong or did we? did he do something wrong or did turner? no matter what the real answer to that it, i'll bet money we'll decide he did something wrong.
fox news at 10 spent the first 15 minutes of it's broadcast last night detailing the threat...which had already been, ahem...contained. and today, fox news channel is still covering it. even better is how fox spins the recap of the day's events to make it sound like their reporters broke bits of the story. "finally, during fox and friends, it all became painfully clear what was going on here..."
things that are awesome about this story (or at least of note):
-apparently no one over thirty has ever heard of aqua teen hunger force.
-the girl in the comic book store (gwen?) with the cat-eye glasses who patiently explained both what the mooninites were and why people were freaking out ("because they had batteries and wires and now people equate that with bombs") you could almost hear her saying "or something".
-the fact that they had to go to a comic book store to get an explanation
-that the news broadcasts last night announced the release date of the athf movie-guess the ads worked.
-when they made the first arrest last night, they made sure to identify him as "immigrant peter berdovsky" because obviously it was a dirty dirty immigrant who was responsible for this.
-of course, "immigrant peter berdovsky" was a dirty dirty hippie, with wayward dreads down his back who used to be a mass art student. couldn't have gone to wentworth, could you?
-watching victoria block and other journalists trying to find polite ways to describe the mooninite picture and their role on the show. fox chose "flipping the bird", which always makes me giggle.
-that this had been happening for 3 weeks and in 9 other cities and only boston freaked.
-that the blogosphere knew all along, those dirty dirty hippie terrorists.
-of all the coverage i've seen, only the christian science monitor and fox news have suggested anything in the way of a generation gap being somewhat responsible for the problems.
**and oh. lord. this clip of the press conference they gave this morning is pretty much awesome. it's like an exercise in passive-aggressive-surrealism. they are so getting convicted, just cause a jury of their peers (right) will want to pound the spit out of them.
ok and seriously? many people are saying that this publicity stunt gone wrong is ultimately bad for the movie it was promoting, saying that so many people are upset about this that the negative impact will greatly outweigh any positive that comes with any publicity. but uh, really, i think this is hysterical. i can't be the only one. (and i couldn't even tell you the last time i saw an episode of aqua-teen). and the people who are really pissed off about this? didn't even know that the show existed (obviously) and probably weren't the people the movie is targeted at.
also, am i the only one who thinks it's kind of ridiculous that they arrested the guy who put these up? they charged him with disturbing the peace and (i believe) a felony count of creating a hoax. he put up pieces of advertising after being hired basically by a multinational media corporation. it's like he put up a billboard that someone misconstrued as a wmd. did he do something wrong or did we? did he do something wrong or did turner? no matter what the real answer to that it, i'll bet money we'll decide he did something wrong.