Just heard that the 20/20 story has been postponed. This may not be news to you all, but I’ve been away from the Internets for a bit. Anyway, I’ll let you know when it will run as soon as I know.
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20/20 Story POSTPONED, again
No. it’s news to me.
Any idea why?
Nooooooo! And we only had 3 hours to go!
Well, OT, somegreybloke’s new vid is hilarious. I got as far as “the reasonable limits of objectification that we’ve all agreed upon” before I lost it.
Wat? Again?
Whaaaaat
But we’ve waited so loooooooonnnngggggg *sobs*
Whaaaaaaaaaat?
What could possibly be more important than the Greatest Human Rights Movement of Our Time?*
*all the sarcasms
Isn’t it obvious that 2000 attacks on the show (via the comments after the trailer) had an effect? Vargas and her producers experienced just how fun it is to be a target of the manosphere. What I wonder is whether this will disappoint the MRAs. Let’s see: “Paul got to say his piece.” Wait, “Paul got trashed, and this is good, either way, attention is paid.” Then, “Let’s all attack Vargas personally and the show in advance because we’re haters and that’s what we do.”
Now what?
“Wait, we wanted to see Paul. Bummer, how come they are “postponing”?
“But it could have been so fun!” Like, Paul saying men shouldn’t get married, after failing 4 times at it.
I doubt we’ll ever see this story. NBC opted out either because 1) the threat level was unacceptable or 2) they realized they would be used, no matter what their conclusions, to hurt women.
I’ve entered my full comment with no luck, so let me be succinct here: 2000 “comments”, mostly personal against Vargas and her producers.
Balls.
I can’t wait anymoar
LOL
That is all.
ah well, I really should be working tonight anyway.
I really hope this is a “More Rope” situation, where every time they’re about to release, They get another wave of fresh horrifying hatred spewed at them, which they feel needs to be included.
So now what am I supposed to do with all the popcorn I made?
@oserchenma Vargas should be fine, but AVFM “covered” the story by posting pictures and bios of the two young female authors of the teaser. These kids (I’m old) are borderline interns so I’m sure all they were unprepared for the backlash.
Also, their coverage doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Anita Sarkeesian is bête noire in the gamer/ anti-girl nerd sphere, and while her harassment involves misogyny and anti-feminism, I don’t see any direct connection between her infamy and the MRM or Elam. I think they approached the story from the cyber-bullying angle, replacing school kids with women, and we’re going to gloss over the MRM specifics, which is understandable because MRM is both complex and goofy. If you assume the viewer doesn’t know anything about feminism, internet culture, PUAs, rise of pop Evo Psych or the earlier Father’s rights movement, it’s a tough story to tell.
And, as you point out, they already got a taste of the MRM’s aggro lunacy in the teaser’s comment section.
Hubby is actually out picking up popcorn right now. Well, I guess we’ll just watch a movie by the light of a scented candle instead.
Aw, man. And I was getting so excited 🙁 (though that was more for the live-manboobz comments :D)
Well, I’m relieved. Maybe by the time they air it, I can finally get abc to stream in my area. I too have loads of popcorn and wine here ready for the “live comments” here, and now need to find a movie to use it on.
Oh, how they HATE ABC and 20/20… http://www.avoiceformen.com/a-voice-for-men/alexacaliente-alyssapry-anitasarkeesian-jaclynf-abc-reporting-standards-at-2020-are-interesting/
*If* the story was pulled because of threats from MRA’s (not saying it was, just saying it’s more than a little possible) then expect things to get verrrrrrrrry interesting over the next few days. The mainstream media may be easily intimidated, can’t say the same for the Twitterverse. The popcorn will not go to waste.
@martindufresne, love your icon. Chicken!
I like how they’re fuming about the reporters’ journalistic credentials, as if they expected to be interviewed by Anderson Cooper right out the gate.
The complaints about how it’s being treated as an internet story are actually reasonable…but they don’t realize that that actually makes it look better for them. “People get angry when anonymous on the internet” is a way better narrative for them than “these people actually think this is a reasonable way to behave and think in normal life.”
I suspect a lot of these delays are just that a more time-sensitive news story comes up that they want to cover. That’s my understanding of how a lot of these programs work; they have a handful of evergreen pieces that they’ll move around as needed.
But I don’t know how 20/20 works in particular and I haven’t been paying much attention to the backlash and such (except what I’ve seen here) so I could be wrong.
We just had some yahoos hold the country hostage, that might take precedence over the curdled man-feels of the MRM.
@AK, you’re probably right, especially if they’re going to take the standard Lets-treat-the-internet-like-a-carnival-sideshow approach that the media is famous for. They may just be planning to use it as filler at some point.
It’s just… given AVFM’s record of harassment and threats, the other scenario is entirely possible.
I doubt it will ever air. They’ll probably get bullied into silence.
MRAs are loud and annoying, but I really don’t think they’re capable of bullying 20/20 into submission. My guess would be that AK is right and something more timely came up.