Those crazy MacHeisters are at it again, and this time the deal is even harder to resist.
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Since [...]
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I must say that it lives up to the [...]
Is this Steve Jobs driving a tank in a classic Apple TV spot from the late 1990s? That was the rumor at the time: Jobs was making cameos in Apple commercials.
Ken Segall, the TBWA ad man responsible for naming the iMac and Think Different, reveals the truth after the jump. He also shares some rare [...]
9:44 am, July 12th, 2008, Pete Mortensen
“This is journalism to you?” Exactly. Anyone know who that brave man in the iPhone line was? I would like to give him a prize.
Via Daring Fireball.
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Sure, I could write a whole How-To on rolling your own “Back To My Mac.” It involves port forwarding, obtaining a Dynamic DNS, blah blah blah.
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This is a great idea, and bound to go down very well with your kids.
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Bash the jump for the full review.
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That was painful to watch. Calling him ‘Obnoxious’ is a sugar coated understatement. He was rude and disrespectful to a bunch of strangers. Asking that guy if he had seen a naked girl was worthy of getting fired in my opinion. Then getting all passive aggressive and telling the guy to have a sense of humor? What a man. I hate jackass light weights like this all jacked up on energy drinks thinking they are comedians and better than the subject they are reporting on. I’m not against making light of lining up for a phone but wow that witless moron really pissed me off.
Camperton, on July 12th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
A cameraman stuck his camera into my face yesterday while I was in line. He was very nice and just smiled and left when I said, “No.” Thankfully, not all are rude jackasses like the clown in the video.
denny, on July 12th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
This is EXACTLY what is wrong with news programs in our country these days. There is no news on The News!!! Isn’t there a war or something going on?
angusshangus, on July 12th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Do you think he has ever seen a woman naked?
This is really not journalism. This is a guy bullying some people on TV. Someone with more knowledge of hacking than I please get into this guys online life and give him a real bullying.
How about him?, on July 12th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Haha, that is ridiculous, and they can’t even spell “iPhone”!
Bram O., on July 12th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Hey, anyone notice the book he was holding was an undersize hardback with a white paper cover?
Rob Beschizza, on July 12th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
journalist = dick.
erugalatha, on July 12th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
He may have ruined his reputation.
Poor guy!
deocliciano, on July 12th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Can someone get more details on that guy so a bunch of us can start attacking him online?
Ryu, on July 12th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
The KTLA morning news is known for their “humor” and their show is much less serious than other news programs. So it’s a bit harsh to criticize them for showing stuff that isn’t quite “newsworthy” as these types of stories are what they have been doing for years (and they’re usually quite entertaining and the reason people watch them).
CNN morning news is a much better example of journalists being horrible and often doing “fluff” stories rather than covering what’s really happening in the world.
Squidso, on July 12th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
The KTLA morning news is known for their “humor” and a show that is much less serious than other news programs. So it’s a bit harsh to criticize them for showing stuff that isn’t quite “newsworthy” as these types of stories are what they have been doing for years (and they’re usually quite entertaining and the reason people watch them).
CNN morning news is a much better example of journalists being horrible and often doing “fluff” stories rather than covering what’s really happening in the world.
Squid, on July 12th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
I’m so glad that shoot went the way it did – and no anchor better to see it happen than the lovely Michaela Pereira, formerly of TechTV fame!
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but the KTLA anchor who was embarrasedly trying to keep the “reporter” from making a jackass of himself was Michaela herself, who used to host TechLive on TechTV. That’s why she said “those are my people out there.”
Something tells me the “reporter” won’t be doing technology stories again anytime soon. Here’s hoping he’s not doing ANY stories anytime soon.
phoenix, on July 12th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
@ Ryu:
The guy’s name is mentioned in the YouTube comments: Eric Spillman
Cailin Coilleach, on July 13th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Eric as a blog on KTLA. Some of the comments on the iphone story just show the demographic he was obviously trying to appeal to.
http://blogs.ktla.com/news_custom_eric/
Jesse, on July 13th, 2008 at 4:56 am
He should have answered: “Yeah – your sister!”
sdurnin, on July 13th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Just comfort yourselves with the following: he’s a guy on KTLA. He’s not moving up and has hit the peak of his broadcasting career. What a loser.
Luke Hendrickson, on July 13th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I guess I’m alone in thinking that the guy in line had no sense of humor. He actually came off as kind of a douchebag. I’d like to see triumph the insult comic dog go down there and pwn every one of those idiots.
Sonny, on July 14th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Sonny.
See that’s the key here. Triumph is actually funny. Eric Spillman is not. He has no business trying to roast people or match wits with them. Especially on live TV.
Camperton, on July 14th, 2008 at 10:34 am
A minor point. It looks like it was a morning show. So it isn’t anything even approaching “journalism”, just noise whilst getting away for the morning.
No excuse, but…
Also, I think the anchors were as big of a ‘dick’ as the field ‘porter.
Richard F Jones, on July 14th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I love how the short bus drives by just as he is called a jackass and dumb.
Boyo, on July 14th, 2008 at 9:35 pm