June 13th, 2011
I’m not sure which of these is the more perfect sign of the times: the Facebook Bimbot with a friends list that looks like the membership list of SPJ or the Gay Girl in Damascus who was hailed all over the media, but turned out to be a 40-year-old married guy in Georgia.
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Gotta hand it to Hank Copeland there for discovering a shocking defect in the universe, a problem not older than broadband or anything! Think of the spy thrillers they’ll be able to write in our new transformative-disruptive Web 2.0 landscape… I missed where in that sensational dispatch the tech pioneer conceded maybe, possibly, that Henry Blodget and Arianna Huffington are rich and DON’T NEED to cozy up to digital phantoms, and instead recognize this for the crass automatic marketing vehicle it’s always been. Nah, I bet Jeffrey Toobin and Camille Paglia are just like Copeland, who’s crafted a seamless amalgamation of virtual society and meat-space in his own life. When someone who’s “on the advisory board for SXSW” (ooooh!) says to listen up, I drop whatever I’m doing, cuz all of civilization, including idiot perv Congressmen, began with the Alpha-Omega Internets. People not heeding this guy must live in some pre-Jeff Jarvis gloaming, when N. African dictators ran wild and we were deprived of the highest forms of culture i.e. Katy Perry/Ke$h@#% mash-ups
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Kurtz, Toobin and Andrew Ross Sorkin? Fantastic.
SkinsFanPG June 13, 2011 at 12:58 pm
“Speaking to BBC Scotland MacMaster said the entries had all been fictional, but that the facts behind the narrative were true. “So I invented a name to talk under that would keep the focus on the actual issue,” he said.”
Fake but true, the media narrative for the 21st century.