Sunday, January 14, 2007
Spocko Saga makes the New York Times
Shorter Monday's New York Times: Spocko to Hate-Radio: Hit the Road
Reporter Noam Cohen does a fair job of recounting not just the hateful theengs said by personalities on SNUFF Radio560am, but also the lies they tell een order to avoid responsibility. (emphasis ees mine)
Among the advertisers Spocko contacted, and who have been reported in The San Francisco Chronicle to have stopped advertising at KSFO were Bank of America, MasterCard and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. During the Friday show, one of the hosts, Lee Rodgers, read an e-mail message asking if the station had lost any sponsors so the listener could, in turn, boycott the former sponsors. Ms. Morgan said “one advertiser — exactly one” had left the station.
Perdóna mi, Señora Morgan, jour pantalones, they are en fuego.
Thees next part, though, she ees my favorite:
Joo see, thees company "1&1", they are probably going to suffer some backlash from thees, because they acted like leetle cobardes invertebradas:
[Spocko's] lawyer, Matt Zimmerman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights group based in San Francisco, says that 1&1 acted too quickly in response to the ABC letter...
(snip)
A spokesman for 1&1, Neil Simpkins, said the company was acting on the advice of its lawyers and noted that the material “is being distributed all over the Internet.”
Señor Simperkins seems to be missing the point. Eet ees precisely because of hees futile attempt to censor Spocko that thees material ees available all over the internet.
Heckuva job, Señor Simperkins.
UPDATE by Thers: See also TRex and Mike S, his own bad self. And yeah, the NYT reporter was fair.
We don't ask for anything else but a fair hearing, "MSM."
UPDATE II :by ¡El Gato Negro!
David Neiwert at Orcinus has a detailed interview weeth the Vulcan-of-the-Year, entertainingly entitled: Picking Spocko's Brain.
