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Anthony J. Langford


Last Updated: 12/24/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: In a Relationship
Age: 101
Sign: Aries

City: Sydney
State: New South Wales
Country: AU
Signup Date: 11/23/2006

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Thursday, May 28, 2009 

Current mood:  amused

The cult of celebrity has hit a new low... its Chk Chk Boom Time....


For those of us in Sydney, and filtering out to the rest of the country, workforces and chatrooms everywhere have been inundated with opinions on Clare Werberloff – this weeks fad..


Andy Warhol, your 15 minutes of fame prophecy has been fulfilled.. by next week, she will have been forgotten, in an age that demands fresh entertainment daily... no depth please.. only the frivolous is allowed to blossom.


Despite her racist humour, and it was racist, it was mildly entertaining, due to her relatively straight faced delivery. The reason it exists at all? We are in the throng of a politically correct backlash... everyone is sick of tiptoeing around the other, while whispering behind closed backs what we really think.. Clare has simply brought it to the surface, like pus from a pimple..


The real culprit here is the media, Channel 9 in this case, which gave her airtime in the first place. Newsrooms have not escaped a scale back in the era of globalisation. Once upon a time, a journalist would have viewed all material for a story, then written a script and had it verified with a producer. Anything questionable would have been escalated to a senior producer long before it was considered for air.


Not any more.


There was no journalist in the main street of Kings Cross, and seemingly, no one with half a brain perusing the footage before it went to air. How can anyone not see that she was having a joke? Don't blame her for some spur of the moment playup to a camera in the middle of the night.What she or anyone else says when a camera is in their face is irrelevant. Channel 9 are the real air heads here, where all that matters is that latest flotsam of sensationalism, like a piece of turd floating in the toilet bowl. Channel 9 are the racists, giving the spiel air time. Gone is any sense of journalistsic skill, not that the networks had much credibility to begin with, this is just the latest example of net trash.


Will next weeks idiot please stand up? The networks are waiting to put you to air and deliver you open and vulnerable to the public, like a christian in the colleseum, so they can then stand around and moralise about your intent, then follow your brief notoriety and return to pick over your carcass when you ultimately fall from grace.


Beware of the cameras folks, theres a vulture lurking behind each one.


The Video




Currently listening:
Journal for Plague Lovers
By Manic Street Preachers
Release date: 2009-05-19
deanne
dee leber

 
thanks for posting the video - i've been so busy that i hadn't a chance to watch it - although everywhere i went people were talking about the "chk chk boom girl"...

and how about the idiot "it was awesome!" ####%%%%****

i agree with what you are saying - but unfortunately, racism appears to be common on television and especially the news...
  
 
Posted by deanne on Friday, May 29, 2009 - 8:43 AM
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Horror Writer & Media Whore
Christian Saunders

 
Hey Anthony, I have no idea what you are talking about but its well written and sounds interesting. I'd love to watch the video but unfortunately I am blocked from accessing it. I'm guessing its from YouTube. I'm in China, and yep, the government here has banned YouTube. There's a story for you. i have many more. they banned all things horror last year, which as you can probably imagine made life very hard for a renegade horror writer. Personally I don't care if YouTube shows footage of Chinese police beating up innocent Tibetan protesters. Call me insensitive, but I just want to watch music videos.

 
Posted by Horror Writer & Media Whore on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 1:48 AM
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Chris Pavey
Chris Pavey

 
Couldn't agree with you more!
The media has learnt over time that it matters not if news is real or not, but only how much exposure you can get out of it. Corey Worthington even made a small comeback during that same week on Channel 7 (channel 9 having milked his story earlier for all it was worth) only for the channel 7 viewers to become so outraged that the station had to ditch the story at the last minute...
The fact Clare (if that is even her real name) called them 'wogs' and then repeated their 'arguement' as though they were 'kiwi's' kind of gives the whole thing away.. and I would guess that those at channel 9 would have realised that and thought hell, let's run with it anyway. Or do I give them at the station far too much credit!?!?!

 
Posted by Chris Pavey on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 2:05 AM
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Anthony J Langford - Writer
Anthony J. Langford

 
yeah good call chris.. im not surprised about that worthington dick.. the thing is, tv stations have also been victims of globalisation.. and dont have the scrutiny they once did, but this is the networks we're talking about.. dont let the facts get in the way, i think, is the case here.. as long as its entertaing and/or visual, it makes the 'news'. not really news at all. i suspect if she were ugly it would have never made air at all... 'shallow money trench'...

 
Posted by Anthony J Langford - Writer on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 2:08 AM
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Lauren Bruce

 
Delightfully graphic as always!

 
Posted by Lauren Bruce on Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 6:30 AM
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