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What I liked the most is that they took the time to reply more than the top-level question -- many AMAs I've seen* just answer the top level question and move o
by dr_zoidberg 11y ago
What I liked the most is that they took the time to reply more than the top-level question -- many AMAs I've seen* just answer the top level question and move on to something else.
* disclaimer: I don't read so many AMAs, just the ones I find interesting.
- raverbashing 11y agoSeveral AMAs lately have been a PR exercise (like showing up on a talk show)
- dr_zoidberg 11y agoYou mean like Woody Harrelson's RAMPART? :P Well, this one did feel a bit different, certainly more involved than others. By the way, how could one buy a beer to this man? With something he said in the AMA I solved something that had bugged me for a long time.
- jessriedel 11y agoI don't think there's a clean line between for-fun celebrity AMAs and PR exercises. They blend smoothly into each other, and the real division is just whether it trips your personal "authenticity" alarm.
- nickysielicki 11y agoThere's an easy well to tell, just look in the OP and see if they're plugging something. John McAfee is not. Woody Harrelson was.
- jessriedel 11y agoEveryone is plugging something all the time. Just because they're plugging their general popularity rather than a particular movie does not make something unassailably authentic.
- Yhippa 11y agoI get the feeling from a few of them that the subjects of the AMA don't want to be there and that they're almost forced to do it by their PR. I'm used to the AMAs of old where the subjects really got into it.