JREF Forum monitored by the press

[lionking]

This deserves greater coverage that the "Say What's on Your Mind Right Now" thread and the Oliver Stone thread.

The Guardian ran an article (reprinted in Melbourne's Age, and no doubt other papers) about "Oliver Stone's Secret History of America" forthcoming TV series, which controversially puts Hitler and Stalin "in context".

http://www.theage.com.au/news/enter...ntion-the-hword/2010/01/15/1263058360150.html

It quotes our own Orphia Nay and another member:

A blogger by the pen name Orphia Nay summed up the emotion: ''Ohhhhhh, this is not going to end well,'' she wrote.

Others were less temperate. ''Again, another 'blame America first' person. If he/they hate it, just leave it. We'll all have a party and help you pack. You won't even have a full-body scan.''

The thread:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=164440

A Google search on the topic of Stone's TV series does not show up the forum for pages and pages, so this journo most likely reads this forum.

Well done Orphia and co.

 

[Brainster]

Congrats to Orphia, one of my favorite posters here!

 

[godofpie]

This needed its own thread. Good idea LK.

 

[Doctor Evil]

Well done Orphia.


So "the press" reads this place. Interesting, and tempting. I have a lot of things I may want to say to the press. (Yes, I know its wrong to represent "the press' as a monolithic body. Interestingly, that is one of the things that "the press" does all the time.) On second thought, the likely result would be a suicide by mod, so I better not.

 

[Travis]

I'd just like to say....The Guardian has always been my favorite.....er.......whatever it is these days.

 

[Baylor]

Why wasn't The Guardian interested in the size of Wilt Chamberlain's penis?

 

[lionking]

Why wasn't The Guardian interested in the size of Wilt Chamberlain's penis?

Now that the press is on to the forum, it's only a matter of time.

 

[Baylor]

Congrats to Orphia, one of my favorite posters here!

Also congrats to Sword_of_Truth for starting the thread that caught the attention of the journalist.

 

[shandyjan]

As the trend has been to publish snippets of scientific studies as facts, (cures and the like) and UFO's, psychics et al as true, more than ever the last few years, wouldn't it be a fantastic trend if we got more sceptical reporters seeing what the opposition was reporting and checking out the sceptical sites and promoting that view. What a trend that would be! Then it would follow that tv would do it. The psychics would find it hard to get a series.
I better shut up, getting carried, walking on a dream there...

 

[Hokulele]

Wait, so the 9/11 CTists were right and we are all shills for the "mainstream media"?

 

[Orphia Nay]

Thanks for starting this thread, Lionking. I thought it was very interesting that such a well-known news outlet sourced quotes from the forum. Or rather "a" quote... I don't think the second quote came from here.

Thanks for the congrats, peeps!

Actually, The Age's version isn't quite the full version. The original bit in question was this:

A blogger by the pen name Orphia Nay summed up the billowing emotion: "Ohhhhhh, this is not going to end well," she wrote.

I knew The Age was my favourite paper for a reason.

Also congrats to Sword_of_Truth for starting the thread that caught the attention of the journalist.

Seconded. He started that thread almost as soon as the show was announced.

Wait, so the 9/11 CTists were right and we are all shills for the "mainstream media"?

Of course! So, you've finally woken up?!

 

[Roma]

Well that explains why a reporter posted a private message to me a couple of weeks ago,
I thought he was another member of the JREF Forum.
Doesn't matter, I didn't mind at all.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Well that explains why a reporter posted a private message to me a couple of weeks ago,
I thought he was another member of the JREF Forum.
Doesn't matter, I didn't mind at all.

Was his name Ed Pilkington (the author of this article)?

 

[Mojo]

So "the press" reads this place.

Another example from a few years back: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=1171536#post1171536

 

[arthwollipot]

The forum has been mentioned a number of times on the air. Well, in podcasts. Okay, in my podcast.

 

[commandlinegamer]

If I were childish I'd say ---- ---, Daily Mail. But I can't imagine them browsing here; they wouldn't want to cloud any of their publication with rational thought.

 

[zooterkin]

Ah, I saw that. I know Orphia Nay has a blog, as well as posting here, and I assumed that's where the comment was made, since the Grauniad referred to her as a blogger.

ETA: Since the comment was made in a public forum, do we know for certain that the journalist is a member, or did he merely do a bit of googling? If the latter, that might explain his confusion about where the comment was posted.

Congrats to Orphia Nay, though, for the mention.

 

[FenerFan]

Well done and congrats to the cited posters!


I'm just wondering when the Uranus thread will get some press.

 

[ServiceSoon]

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

Congratulations to all parties involved.

 

[lionking]

ETA: Since the comment was made in a public forum, do we know for certain that the journalist is a member, or did he merely do a bit of googling? If the latter, that might explain his confusion about where the comment was posted.

Congrats to Orphia Nay, though, for the mention.

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.