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Quoting Michael Koretzky : "SPJ does an annual 'ethics week', where they teach journalists about ethics, it's not very popular it's like dental hygiene week, you know it's something you do because you have to. No one gets real excited about it. So we had this hashtag, #SPJEthicsweek, and all of sudden it started to get bombed by obscenities... (etc)"
I fail to see the issue of calling the airplay event connected to the annual "ethics Week" an event in conjunction to "ethics week"" when Koretzky also does this. Please elaborate on what the problem with this sentence actually is, and keep in mind that it's meant to be a short one - not a gamergate or SPJ scheduling biography. Did you honestly think that the sentence structure meant that discussing Gamergate was the annual event?
David, I'll be the first to tell you that my Napoleon complex is bigger than yours (zing!), because when I was 16 I was 4.9 (152 cm) and people constantly locked me into my own school locker because it was hilarious that I could fit. So, on the one level, I get it - height is not anything we can do much about (no matter what they tell you vitamins and proteins can't make you taller than you are genetically inclined to be). It's also worse for men to be not-tall than it is for women, because at least I can strap on heels and I am expected to be shorter than any partner. You're right, this isn't humor on the same path as creepy Rob Lowe. But really, your frustration with this ad almost read like a parody, as if I had landed in Bizarro-Jezebel.
Wow, when I read those headlines I had assumed it was complaints, like the headlines said and not one single complaint. Realizing now that I had missed that puts this piece in a different light indeed.
It's bizarre, the current climate. It's as if certain discussions are laced with gunpowder and matches. Look at what happened to my most recent "Sweden Democrat posters riot" article on Google plus: 41 comments and counting. Meanwhile on Adland (where comments help support the site), not a single one. I could kvetch about how social media simply spreads comments thin, diverting discussions onto too many different platforms here, but I actually believe that this is part of the cause for things going 'out of control', misunderstandings, warped reporting and oversensitivity to sly art jokes. It's as if half of the internet isn't even human anymore, with the ability to read and comprehend, but some sort of AI that just eats words and garbles non-sequitur word-chopped and irritated/outraged responses. People brought up on the internet alongside these bots think that this is how humans behave.
But yeah, if Banksy called in that complaint, then.. golfclap indeed:
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