February 27th, 2007, 2:53 pm
To use Internet, you need Computer and Telephone
… and, if you’re reading this, you’re probably not emo. [below]
I love me a lil ol skool media coverage of Internet. This fun Canadian Broadcast Corporation clip is from 1993. When I was 12.
[Via UK.Gizmodo.com, via shinyshiny.tv]
… and in more fun, “you completely missed the point” broadcast journalism …
This suburban newscaster from who-knows-where has produced a special report on the dangers of “emo” - where children wear their hair over one eye “to see the world in half view” and cut themselves in order to win points on satirical MySpace questionnaires entitled “How Emo are You?”
Poor, deluded reporter Lacey Crisp.
[via Tony Ware.]
February 27th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
I almost laughed when the Canadian anchor said “for almost $200 a year they connect to the internet,” but then I realized that Comcast yanks $45 out of my wallet every month for the internets. Sigh.
February 27th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Well, maybe if you stopped blocking all those tubes with your pornography, it wouldn’t be so expensive.