Media coverage of the Cartoon Network bomb scare has thus far, and probably will continue to, miss the following point: if the advertising gizmos look so much like bombs, why did it take law enforcement three weeks to find them?
Hipster blog coverage of the Cartoon Network bomb scare has thus far, and probably will continue to, miss the following point: the two men who planted the devices were working on behalf of the largest media corporation in the world. They're not independent artists or merry pranksters showing the country how out-of-touch "the man" is. They are, in fact, "the man"'s contract employees and advertising a corporate product.
So quit congratulating yourselves on being hipper than the squares who didn't "get" that these lite brites were harmless. You watch Aqua Teen. They watch the Braves and read People. It's the same company.
I'm just saying.
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21 comments:
Only Laura Mallory can save us now.
I blame Harry Potter for pretty much everything.
Up With Muggles.
Did you see that picture of Harry Potter naked with that horse? Did you read Hollis Gillespie's column about the documentary "Zoo" about a boy and his horse? I mean, we can all put two and two together, eh?
Meanwhile... as mentioned on the AJC blog, Oz, and/or his band of Time-Warner suits, cruises quietly by a melee of hair pulling and wailing and gnashing of teeth at the courthouse steps, AnyCity USA, in his polished Range Rover and on into the hush of his gated-community McMansion and into the waiting, toned, tanned arms of his lovely blond trophy wife.
Bloggers ain't winning this round, that's fer sure!
PK: Are you telling us that J.K. Rowling too is on the Time-Warner payroll? I think Mrs. Mallory needs to know this.
Excuse me. I meant to respond to P, not PK. Damn blogosphere. F's with identity all the time.
Not sure who these employees worked for is relevant with regard to the city's reaction, which is what is being (rightly) criticized. If anything it means the city should have had a *greater* opportunity to seek information and behave responsibly. They did neither.
As you point out, this wasn't some obscure gorilla artist they couldn't track in search of 411 re: motives and such. It's freakin' Time Warner. One wouldn't have to be "hip" to see these were harmless after an initial examination, no matter who distributed the signs/"devices."
I didn't say that their employment was relevant to the city's reaction.
"Guerilla" that is. Yeesh.
Then what was the point of the second paragraph?
The scorn in Paragraph 2 is directed at bloggers, not law enforcement.
I guess I don't get the relevance, or why you expect bloggers to focus on whom the employees worked for or what they were advertising. Does it matter?
I'd think this whole thing equally silly whether they worked for Newbury Comics or Exxon/Mobil.
I can't even convince myself that any of this relevant, so I'm not gonna bother trying to convince anyone else.
Heh. Alright.
Wow. When did watching the Braves make me a square?
Who is cooler? the people who think they are cooler than anyone else? or the people that think they are cooler than the people who think they are cooler? there IS always someone cooler than anyone. so whats the point of this post?
Watching the Braves doesn't make anyone square. Expecting them to win in the playoffs, maybe.
The point of this post is that I think its odd that countless writers and bloggers are actually mocking authorities in Boston for not "getting" that this was an Aqua Teen Hunger Force ad campaign -- the implication being that "getting" it is a hipness badge of honor.
The point of the ATHF vs. Pepole Mag and Atlanta Braves comparison is that thinking you're cool for "getting" ATHF is like thinking you're cool for drinking Sprite while everyone else drinks Coke.
For the record, I read Us magazine, go to 3 Braves games a year, and have an ATHF DVD set that I've never opened, not because I've never gotten around to it.
And like I said at the beginning, the big, big, big thing about this whole story that's getting overlooked -- if the gizmos were worth shutting down the city on Weds, they were worth shutting down the city 3 three weeks ago when the devices were originally put outside.
because i've never gotten around to it.
multi-tasking while blogging is not good.
I'm mainly disturbed by the general response from the authorities and the way that the mainstream press seemed to feed into and off of it.
It makes sense that calls about the signs would be investigated and looked into. But at some point
people decided to respond as if the sky were falling. Maybe the authorities wouldn't have panicked if these signs advertised for something more widely known. But local citizens are taking their cues from how the authorities are responding, and it seems that full-blown hysteria was not the right call. That's my particular frustration with this whole incident. Turner is going to reimburse the city for the costs incurred, so that's a significant step, but I hope the city doesn't take out their anger and embarrassment on the guys they've arrested, since they were merely the guys hired to carry out this ad campaign.
I think the response we've seen, online and elsewhere indicates that it's sort of a culture clash, generational as well as hipster versus the mainstream. I do agree that it's basically a difference between choices of product consumption.
I've watched ATHF and we even own a couple of seasons. I'm guilty of poking fun at Boston's expense, but it seems that there should have been a more rational response. But maybe that's a difference - as an investigator it probably makes sense to assume the worst about something (or someone) until proven otherwise.
you're right on.
i like doug monroe's take on it at peachtreescreed.com -- it's the mainstream media feeding on hysteria caused by a marketing campaign perpetrated by another arm of the mainstream media.
i think that boston cops should have shut their pie holes once they figured out what it was. government officials screaming "hoax" was uncalled for.
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