JREF Forum monitored by the press

[tyr_13]

In the OP I mentioned that the forum did not come up in many pages (I don't know how many, I gave up) when googling the topic, so the journalist may well be a member.

Why not? If I were a journalist who wanted to be well informed about a subject I'd just start a thread here on it and follow the discussion. There is almost always pleanty of sources given to site, and there are a great many smart people here.

When there are people ready to do the research for you? For free? Goldmine.

 

[sadhatter]

Well that tears it, big brother has us bugged. Get the tinfoil hats, amunition and....oh wait, i mean get on the internet and talk about it, and maybe yell about it in the middle of the street that will stop them.

 

[Roma]

It was this guy:

http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/DouglasMesner

 

[Travis]

Did my blatant butt kissing get me quoted yet?




No! Damn.

 

[amb]

Did my blatant butt kissing get me quoted yet?




No! Damn.

You have to kiss the right butt to get noticed, not just any butt.

 

[Hallo Alfie]

You have to kiss the right butt to get noticed, not just any butt.

I always thought it was a game of numbers. The more butt you kiss, the better the chances.

 

[amb]

Also the better chances of ending up with a brown nose.

 

[Hallo Alfie]

And bad breath

 

[Travis]

You have to kiss the right butt to get noticed, not just any butt.

A great idea. A magnificent idea. I dare say one of the best ideas ever conceived by any member of the human species as a solution for any problem real or imagined. All other ever vaguely anthropomorphic beings are shamed by your mere existence.



2 down....40,000+ to go!

 

[amb]

You have 40.000 butts to kiss? You better have the lip balm ready. You will need it.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Here's the first line from the OP.
This deserves greater coverage that the "Say What's on Your Mind Right Now" thread and the Oliver Stone thread.
Guess what you get if you paste it into Google?


I suspect the press use Google like everyone else.

 

[lionking]

Paste what? It didn't get any hits to the forum when I originally did it.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Paste what? It didn't get any hits to the forum when I originally did it.

Nor when I did it.

Although, perhaps Sword of Truth's thread could have turned up fairly early in a Google search back when Ed Pilkington was researching the topic.

 

[Soapy Sam]

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[Hellbound]

Gone are the days when we can call the media idiots. It has become apparent that "we" are the media.

Seems to me that's a False Dichotomy Fallacy...

 

[Fnord]

Dear Press,

Sylvia Browne is a fraud. I did not father any of Britney Spears' children. American Idol should be canceled. 'Tapatio' is better than 'Tabasco.' 'Lost' should never have left the dumpster. President Obama is neither the Christ nor the Anti-Christ. Enya is the foremost composer of our time. Google stores and cross-references data on every user. None of the children whelped by 'Octomom' are mine, either. Irish beer is the best beer. Grand Ledge hates veterans and loves alcoholics. Both unionism and corporate greed are responsible for the failures of the American automobile, steel and textile industries. I am not keeping Michael Jackson's body in a vat of liquid nitrogen in my basement.

That's all for now.

-Fnord-

 

[NoZed Avenger]

I, for one, welcome our ink-stained wretch overlords.

 

[Fnord]

... It has become apparent that "we" are the media...

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We have met the Media, and it is us.

 

[bpesta22]

I wanted to issue a PR on a paper I wrote, but my school was too afraids and so was another prominent atheist organization. Would the JREF do it?

 

[zooterkin]

In the OP I mentioned that the forum did not come up in many pages (I don't know how many, I gave up) when googling the topic, so the journalist may well be a member.

First, I should have said 'using a search engine', but it was quicker to type 'googling'. Different search engines give different results.

Secondly, as Soapy Sam points out, it depends on what search terms you use where the post comes in the results; and, as orphia nay said, that also depends on when you do the search.

The facts that the post is visible to search engines, and that the journalist used the term 'blogger', suggest to me that it is more likely a search engine was used rather than that the journalist is a member.