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Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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The mainstream media does not understand the internet? Incomprehensible!

On the contrary, I think they understand exactly what this site is about and are happy to demonize it, possibly to the extent that they can get the powers that be to introduce restrictions on online video so that we can all go back to getting our spoon-fed media.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

#15

ROFL love his joke on how it's russian roulette with 5

Interesting, looks like whatever you typed after the "5" tickled a HN bug - there's an unclosed tag that causes the reply link on your comment to be rendered in italics.

The asterisk is used for italics. If you leave one at the end of your comment it does this, it seems.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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I don't know wtf is wrong with these newspeople. Not that many people know about ChatRoulette -- for instance, no one in my family knows about it, and with all the time I spend online on sites like this, I've only heard it mentioned a few times.

But when you get on TV to "warn parents" about this "frightening new trend" of seeing penises, you tell a lot of "normal" people about it and only make things worse.

The mainstream media is desperate to look like they know what's happening with kids and the internet, but they really just constantly misreport and their own reporting skews numbers. See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

#18
"we're slipping guys. we're bleeding viewers. people just don't care about the news anymore. we need something that grabs people. steve, who's our main demographic these days?"

"uh...well according to nielsen it looks like...scared old people."

"I have an idea."

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