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Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
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Cookie
Flyntonville
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The original (fake) article is included in this blog post.
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jennyw
Clintonville
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mbeaumont wrote >>
I guess it's possible that the entire Ohio art scene, if such a thing actually exists, has somehow managed to stay off the face of the internet, but not likely.
Lovely.Yeah, I think the reason why this hoax worked, albeit briefly, is that it played on some East Coast prejudices about (and ignorance of) what goes on in Ohio.
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mbeaumont
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Yeah, I think the reason why this hoax worked, albeit briefly, is that it played on some East Coast prejudices about (and ignorance of) what goes on in Ohio.
Exactly. Columbus, OH is apparently synonymous with "random, generic, midwest city".
Posted 2 years ago # -
StowCbusCleveland
Jackson Township, Canton, OH
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On a tangentially related note, apparently the whole "East Coast elites trying to reconnect via stereotype of small towns/flyover country" is going to be a new comedy theme for ABC this TV season. ABC has 2 new shows, one with Ray Romano's tv wife and the janitor from Scrubs as parents of an "average" American family in Indiana, and the other with Kelsey Grammer and his family being bumped from NYC CEO standard-of-living back to small town Virginia.
Don't know whether they'll be funny sitcoms or not, but it sure looks like the "What type of show do we do during a massive recession that makes the plebes hate us elites" conversations led to some pretty obvious choices for new show pickups.
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Cookie
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rus
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mbeaumont wrote >>
Yeah, I think the reason why this hoax worked, albeit briefly, is that it played on some East Coast prejudices about (and ignorance of) what goes on in Ohio.
Exactly. Columbus, OH is apparently synonymous with "random, generic, midwest city".Specifically Columbus or anything not on a coast? Seems like those who hold such prejudices picture a map of the US with "here there be monsters" written across the center.
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jennyw
Clintonville
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rus wrote >>
mbeaumont wrote >>
Yeah, I think the reason why this hoax worked, albeit briefly, is that it played on some East Coast prejudices about (and ignorance of) what goes on in Ohio.
Exactly. Columbus, OH is apparently synonymous with "random, generic, midwest city".Specifically Columbus or anything not on a coast? Seems like those who hold such prejudices picture a map of the US with "here there be monsters" written across the center.
You mean like this?
Edited to add: My mom's side of the family has roots in small-town Louisiana; her siblings (with the exception of one sister) all live on the East Coast, as do most of our family friends (I was born in Baltimore; we still have good family friends there), and yeah, as much as I love them dearly, it's fair to say they're snobs when it comes to the Midwest.
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Rockmastermike
CORNspiracy HQ
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wow... you can see Russia from 9th ave... :)
seriously... who cares if folks out east don't like the midwest? If they knew what we had here they would all want to move here and we'd have to build some kind of fence or something to keep them OUT
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Nitsud Regnifloh
Valerio Heights
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i dont particularly care for them either, so i guess all is fair.
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lifeontwowheels
Highland West
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Cookie wrote >>
mbeaumont wrote >>
Exactly. Columbus, OH is apparently synonymous with "random, generic, midwest city".I guess Gawker is synonymous with "can't be bothered to fucking google before posting an obvious hoax."
So blogs are going to replace journalism, huh? Super.Yeah thankfully the real media fact checks before they run with a story. Like that one involving the Coast Guard on the Potomic the other week.
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chaptal
West Side
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And gawker admits they got punk'd
http://gawker.com/5370397/rape-tunnel-succeeds-in-sparking-conversation-but-not-rape
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rus
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chaptal wrote >>
And gawker admits they got punk'd
http://gawker.com/5370397/rape-tunnel-succeeds-in-sparking-conversation-but-not-rapeInteresting quote from the link on that page:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/09/artlurker_explains_rape_tunnel.php
We cannot say what the intentions of the author were, but ours were simple: to generate conversation on the state of contemporary art based on the fact that an event like this is no so unrealistic today. So we edited the piece like we would any other and published it.
Posted 2 years ago # -
blammo
in the shadow of the wonder of bread
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rus wrote >>
chaptal wrote >>
And gawker admits they got punk'd
http://gawker.com/5370397/rape-tunnel-succeeds-in-sparking-conversation-but-not-rapeInteresting quote from the link on that page:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/09/artlurker_explains_rape_tunnel.php
We cannot say what the intentions of the author were, but ours were simple: to generate conversation on the state of contemporary art based on the fact that an event like this is no so unrealistic today. So we edited the piece like we would any other and published it.
Why is it a "fact" that an event like this is not so unrealistic? Because they believed it was true? FAIL
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jennyw
Clintonville
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lifeontwowheels wrote >>
Cookie wrote >>
mbeaumont wrote >>
Exactly. Columbus, OH is apparently synonymous with "random, generic, midwest city".I guess Gawker is synonymous with "can't be bothered to fucking google before posting an obvious hoax."
So blogs are going to replace journalism, huh? Super.Yeah thankfully the real media fact checks before they run with a story. Like that one involving the Coast Guard on the Potomic the other week.
Well, I'm a member of the "real media" (whatever that means), and I did fact-check this thing--and attempt to let the Gawker folks know that it was a hoax. For whatever that's worth.
Sorry, I get all riled up when people talk about "the media" as if it's a singular unit. Especially when I'm on round 3 of fact-checking a story, which is what I'm doing at work right now.
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lifeontwowheels
Highland West
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I was merely commenting that people screw things up all the time. Including cable news folks who mistake "Bang, Bang" on the radio as real gunfire...
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