Comments on: What could possibly go wrong?

By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:08:42 +0000

Well of course, kat. And anyone with half a brain would realize that the United States is the whole world.

By: kat

kat — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:39:17 +0000

I think anyone with even half a brain would know that Jeff was talking about a crash in the US.

By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:06:35 +0000

“The worst air crash in years?” More like the worst crash in the last few hours.

Unless, of course, you consider the 45 killed in Pakistan on July 10 to be subhuman. Or perhaps the 128 fatalities in a Russian air crash are not worth consideration either. Or the 113 Russians killed May 3. And you probably didn’t even think at all about the 10 Nigerians killed December or the 117 Nigerians killed October 22. Or the 99 people killed less than a year ago, September 5, in Indonesia. http://www.planecrashinfo.com/database.htm

I have some very choice words for your phrasing, but you probably know what I’m thinking right now.

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:52:37 +0000

Richard,
Damn, that cabernet was good. Thanks! Fixed now.

By: kat

kat — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:27:27 +0000

Personally, I would have changed the opening. It was tasteless and thoughtless to air it hours after the tragedy.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:28:46 +0000

That’s just silly. It was a spoof on a TV SHOW not a real event. You know, everyday people get murdered and killed and whatever, and TV shows go right ahead and show those events in fictional dramas. How dare they!

By: Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:32:10 +0000

That wasn’t Survivor. it was Lost.

By: Jim Treacher

Jim Treacher — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:51:20 +0000

I think they should cancel Lost too.

By: kingdom2000

kingdom2000 — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:22:52 +0000

So anytime something bad happens anywhere that may or may not give people a little funny feeling while watching, Hollywood should go to great efforts to cut it? The opening monologue was filmed and prepped weeks in advanced…but they had to cut it just hours before the show cause some people may be sad? The Spider-Man trailer is a bad example cause 1) that was a historic moment, a plane crash isn’t b) they had to pull trailers for more then a week while they recut a new trailer. Its wasn’t something they just prepped hours later.

But mostly I find it interesting that a blogger that attacks the FCC for censorship…is asking for censorship.

By: Brian J

Brian J — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:34:57 +0000

“Should he have known this, 5 weeks ago?”

No, but you adapt to deal with real-world events. It happens all the time in the industry. The twin towers were removed from the Spider-Man movie posters. Trailers of The Core were re-edited after the Columbia disaster. I agree with a blog that wondered whether the producers would have proceeded had the plane crashed in Los Angeles. I for one doubt it.

By: chAng

chAng — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:15:26 +0000

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…I appreciated that episode because it explained scientology to people.I thought to myself,myself…surely this can’t be what they believe,but with multi-google searches I proved to myself otherwise.
…Scientology is crazy,but a more interesting one is the church of the subgenius.It’d be interesting to hear your take on them sometime.

eyb~

By: Angelos

Angelos — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:00:10 +0000

Should he have known this, 5 weeks ago?

Shit happens.