Reply #49: I'm not speaking of you, but look around. There are people who are not making the connection at all [View All]

[MADem]

The "kids" came out of the courtroom mocking the process and touting a new Cartoon Network show that is supposedly called "Perfect Hair." Clearly, they are ON the corporate payroll. They behaved like smartasses--that kind of conduct won't be helpful to them, I suspect--and it could be they're just stupid, which might not be such a wild speculation, and are simply tools of Time-Warner. They'll probably get the "high end" rather than the low end of the fine spectrum if they keep that shit up. Of course, Time Warner will pay that bill, and likely groom them as they newest "faux counterculture" heroes for people who are just too lazy to see how they're being marketed.

But still there are some who insist that these kids are "unassociated" with Turner, that they're just innocent contractors. Well, apparently, they're connected enough so that Mister Dreadlocks was getting email from his "boss" to KEEP QUIET while the city was freaking out. Real smooth move, there...

As Boston Reeled, Was Artist Asked to Keep Quiet?

Feb. 1, 2007 — One of the two men charged in connection with the advertising campaign that turned into a terror scare was asked to keep quiet as the stunt sent the city of Boston into chaos, according to two fellow artists who provided ABC News with an e-mail from the man supporting their claim. ...But friends and fellow artists Toshi Hoo and Travis Vautour said it's not Berdovsky and Stevens who should take the fall for this.

According to Hoo and Vautour, the New York-based guerilla marketing firm, Interference Inc., which was running the advertising campaign in Boston; New York; Los Angeles; Chicago; Atlanta; Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Austin, Texas; San Francisco; and Philadelphia, asked Berdovsky to keep his involvement quiet as the event was playing out.

"We received an e-mail in the early afternoon from Peter that asked the community that he's a part of to keep any information we had on the down low and that was instructed to him by whoever his boss was in this advertising campaign gone wrong," Vautour said. "I don't know if it was for security reasons or it was to buy them some time or to buy Peter some time."

In an e-mail obtained by ABC News sent from Berdovsky to Hoo at 1:26 p.m. Wednesday, the artist writes, "My boss at the Cartoon Network's ad agency just called — she is asking that I pretty please keep everything on the dl (down low; quiet)." The e-mail, supplied by Hoo, contains a large swath of blacked-out text that he claims contained personal information....No one at Interference Inc. answered the phone or responded to requests for comment on the authenticity of the e-mail, and the company's Web site appears to be down.

Shirley Powell, a spokesperson for Turner Broadcasting, said she was unaware of the e-mail and that it was "nothing I've heard." Powell said that at this point the company had no comment on the e-mail or allegations Berdovsky was asked to keep quiet.....
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2841646&page=1



I dunno. I don't understand the childish cheerleading for a craven corporate effort to separate people from their money, first of all. And I find the snarkiness towards people who don't stay up till three in the morning to watch a fucking cartoon childish, too. Like people who recognize Shake and Frylock are somehow superior to these poor middle aged and older working people who DON'T recognize them. And then, when it is revealed that these (not kids) ADULTS in their LATE TWENTIES deliberately let it play out when they KNEW what was happening, at the written direction of their boss, who was delaying notification either for free publicity, or to circle their lawyers, well, that's disgraceful.

This shit started before SEVEN in the morning. It could have been over by noon, had Turner/Time Warner/Cartoon Network just CALLED the damn mayor back--but no--Cartoon Network wanted to let it ride, so every media outlet in the country would hop on it.

If anyone is pushing or facilitating the "terra" agenda, it's Time-fucking-Warner. And we've got a whole crowd of incredibly juvenile and hubris-laden cartoon watchers cheering them on, and making fun of people who don't share their particular interest, in essence. That, to me, is incredibly juvenile.