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News flash bud, when you lie to your audience you lose all credibility. This isn't new. "I didn't lie MUCH! There is some truth in there!" is great but your bra

News flash bud, when you lie to your audience you lose all credibility. This isn't new. "I didn't lie MUCH! There is some truth in there!" is great but your brand has been tarnished in a major way. The fact that you're sitting there acting like Ira Glass is the asshole for drawing attention to the fact you put his reputation on the line -- NPR's reputation -- that you lied to millions of people, tells me you live in a fantasy world. Hope this dude goes down in flames forever. No character trait I hate more in the world than people who have convinced themselves that it's ok to lie.

skilesare 15y ago
Your first stament is wrong. Theater requires you lie to your audience. For example, there are two movies coming out about Abraham Lincoln this year: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/ Clearly one of these is an outright fabrication of the events of Lincoln's life. In the other Steven Spielberg is going to produce a film that is 100% fabricated and yet people are going to gush about the truth of Abe Lincoln that it captures. The sets will be fake. Most of the dialogue will be made up and dramaticized. No one will question this. No one will care. Mike's issue was that he wanted to do more and he shouldn't have. He should have stayed off of NPR, out of print, and off the talk shows. I still think that his show is closer to "Lincoln: The sixteenth President of the United States guides the North to victory during the Civil War" than "Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them."

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News flash bud, when you lie to your audience you lose all credibility. This isn't new. "I didn't lie MUCH! There is some truth in there!" is great but your bra

by mattdeboard 15y ago

skilesare 15y ago
Your first stament is wrong. Theater requires you lie to your audience. For example, there are two movies coming out about Abraham Lincoln this year: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/ Clearly one of these is an outright fabrication of the events of Lincoln's life. In the other Steven Spielberg is going to produce a film that is 100% fabricated and yet people are going to gush about the truth of Abe Lincoln that it captures. The sets will be fake. Most of the dialogue will be made up and dramaticized. No one will question this. No one will care. Mike's issue was that he wanted to do more and he shouldn't have. He should have stayed off of NPR, out of print, and off the talk shows. I still think that his show is closer to "Lincoln: The sixteenth President of the United States guides the North to victory during the Civil War" than "Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them."