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Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by ugh »

pmjordan wrote: post #28
ugh wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s both mean and strange. What possible gain could there be from excluding the UK and (seemingly) allowing access in continental Europe?

IIRC, (a version of) The Daily Show is broadcast on UK television. We wouldn't want competition now, would we?

Comedy Central is broadcasting The Daily Show here in Germany. CNN, too. A crappy cut-together version, but still.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by cookiecaper »

dotBen wrote: post #32
cookiecaper wrote: post #17

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 main…

um, are you aware that Daily Show is satire and not really 'newspeople'. Just saying. "See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter."

I wasn't referring to the Daily Show, I was referring to the "real news" programs it was mocking.

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Post by SamAtt »

groaner wrote: post #11
MrHyde wrote: post #2

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.

I don't think ChatRoulette needs anyone's help in regards to demonizing it. It's pretty much as it was portrayed. If anything the Daily Show made it look better (The one time I tried it I saw double the cock and not a single mainstream news personality)

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by henrikschroder »

henrikschroder wrote: post #39
dotBen wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

um, are you aware that Daily Show is satire and not really 'newspeople'. Just saying. "See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter."

Yes, but the Daily Show also showed clips from actual news programs, and they are certainly clueless.

I thought some more about this, and I think the biggest problem is that they have no sense of proportions, they are completely unable to figure out how popular something on the internet is, they don't know the difference between stuff noone cares about, and stuff that is actually widespread. Everything gets painted with the same "Newest craze on the internet" brush.
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