Possible to use the same social media outrage against Anthony against the management too?
0 2014-07-04 by [deleted]
If Gawker wants a truly juicy story (and now that Anthony is officially off the show), why don't people start feeding them everything from Anthony that Scott Greenstein and Sirius apparently HAVE felt represents the company over the years? If people really feel that there's no place for racism in radio, then the house needs to be cleaned from top to bottom.
The story could easily find a second, even larger wind, if the right connections are made at the very same places that blew this out of proportion in the first place:
Gizmodo: [email protected]
Jezebel: [email protected]
Gawker: [email protected]
Kotaku: [email protected]
io9: [email protected]
Jalopnik: [email protected]
Lifehacker: [email protected]
Deadspin: [email protected]
EndTheHateAtSirius
NotOnOurAirwaves
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OBVIOUS FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm a huge fan of the show, but if you really want to show your discontent at Sirius and point out the inherent hypocrisy of their decision to fire Anthony, then fighting fire with fire is the absolute best way to handle things right now. Why should the Peons (relatively speaking) be the only ones who are ever forced to fall on their swords through these social media fiascos?
Go double agent on their asses and tell the outrage machine that their job isn't quite finished yet.
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2 kentrel 2014-07-04
Fuck those gossip ragebait sites. They are poison to the culture. Ignore them. Let them earn their slightly above minimum wage salary.
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1 kentrel 2014-07-04
Anthony is a creative person who's spent 20+ years honing that craft and making friends with other creative people.
Those companies are running by marketers who have spent 20+ years honing that craft. The only way to beat them is to not play their marketing game.
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1 gsbird1065 2014-07-04
I'm all for it. The spotlight needs to be trained on Sirius for allowing expressions of hatred to flourish (for example, permitting that homophobic clown Troy Quan to keep his job after the Mark Zito incident last year).
That being said, I don't think you'll find many on this subreddit who'll join you. Why? Because ultimately they enjoy a culture of accepted racism, just as much as they liked Ant's practice of it.
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1 gsbird1065 2014-07-04
I may do that very thing.
1 rumpumpumpum 2014-07-04
Yep, like I said earlier, SXM has let Ant run his mouth for years on the air. So why are they now acting like this is something new and intolerable? If the media were to pick that up it could knock some mortar loose in SXM's marble towers.
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2 Patrick_Kane 2014-07-04
It's pretty cunty to go after someone's job. Even if they're a complete fuck. I wouldn't want to be any part of that. Even if that's how the other side has chosen to fight. It's low and dirty so suits them. Civilized people don't act that way.
1 rumpumpumpum 2014-07-04
You don't appreciate the irony of the media eating itself alive after being turned on itself? I think it's a delicious golden kronut of social commentary. And these top brass are connected well enough so that they won't be out of work for long.
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1 onemancrimespree 2014-07-04
It's a good idea, but at the end of the day, funneling some of the feces onto Sirius isn't going to clean Ant off.
I'm all for trying to put that company out of business, though.