"we're slipping guys. we're bleeding viewers. people just don't care about the news anymore. we need something that grabs people. steve, who's our main demographic these days?"
"uh...well according to nielsen it looks like...scared old people."
What amazes me about this short is not that they satirically covered the news, but the amount of clips and actual people they were able to put together to make the segment really work.
Geo-locked? That’s strange. Where? I can watch here in Germany. Despite having to endure ads which are in no way relevant for me.
I thought only Hulu was geo-locked. People might simply not know that something is geo-locked if it’s only unavailable in a few places. The sites (regrettably) don’t come with a warning.
Sadly, you think the Mainstream Media would realize that viewers are not as afraid of the internets as they were back in the 90s. There is a reason why more people watch the Daily Show for their news these days.
On a side note, I would have loved a cameo appearance from Chris Hansen and the To Catch A Predator crew.
Linus Torvalds called the bsd-people for a bunch 'masturbating monkeys' and the digg-crowd for a bunch of 'wanking walruses'. I wonder if there was a more appropriate term for chatroulettes users..
But lets be honest guys - we all thought "err.. why did I not think of that".
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 mainstream media is desperate to look like they know what's happening with kids and the internet, but they really just constantly misreport and their own reporting skews numbers. See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter.
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.
Then use localhost:8080 as a SOCKS proxy from a spare Web browser (Firefox is particularly easy for this).
Or get a cheap VPN account. Lots of providers. I pay $5 a month for this (mostly because my ISP frequently blocks access to Google). Hit connect, watch video, hit disconnect.. bob's your uncle, etc.
Interesting, looks like whatever you typed after the "5" tickled a HN bug - there's an unclosed <i> tag that causes the reply link on your comment to be rendered in italics.
You're not allowed to submit links like this to HN, because HN is too serious and important for humor. Cue the censorious "we're becoming just like reddit" comments...
[+] [-] Locke1689|16 years ago|reply
Strangely profound statement. As always, he does a magnificent job of making the mainstream media look like morons.
[+] [-] dotBen|16 years ago|reply
Regular roulette doesn't involve a gun and chambers... unless you run up gambling debts to shady people, I guess.
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[+] [-] nazgulnarsil|16 years ago|reply
"uh...well according to nielsen it looks like...scared old people."
"I have an idea."
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[+] [-] dimarco|16 years ago|reply
It's the same reason that most of my news comes from the Daily Show and news.bbc.co.uk
[+] [-] handelaar|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ugh|16 years ago|reply
I thought only Hulu was geo-locked. People might simply not know that something is geo-locked if it’s only unavailable in a few places. The sites (regrettably) don’t come with a warning.
[+] [-] nollidge|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] varaon|16 years ago|reply
Needs Firefox in order to install the Modify Headers extension.
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[+] [-] GrandMasterBirt|16 years ago|reply
Nah, ok lets get a thread going on proxy mechanisms to help handelaar open up this website.
[+] [-] naqeeb|16 years ago|reply
On a side note, I would have loved a cameo appearance from Chris Hansen and the To Catch A Predator crew.
[+] [-] harshpotatoes|16 years ago|reply
"Sit down. Have a seat, Jon. So what are you doing here?"
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[+] [-] morphir|16 years ago|reply
But lets be honest guys - we all thought "err.. why did I not think of that".
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[+] [-] cookiecaper|16 years ago|reply
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 mainstream media is desperate to look like they know what's happening with kids and the internet, but they really just constantly misreport and their own reporting skews numbers. See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter.
[+] [-] dpcan|16 years ago|reply
This is just what it needs.
[+] [-] dotBen|16 years ago|reply
"See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter."
<sigh>
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[+] [-] Angostura|16 years ago|reply
Well, that gets you the full shows, rather than this particular clip. Still it's a start.
[+] [-] petercooper|16 years ago|reply
Or get a cheap VPN account. Lots of providers. I pay $5 a month for this (mostly because my ISP frequently blocks access to Google). Hit connect, watch video, hit disconnect.. bob's your uncle, etc.
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