OT-Annarbor.com epic fail
So, if anyone was wondering how much AnnArbor.com sucks, here's a true testament. Here's their top article: http://www.annarbor.com/news/gay-porn-director-to-invade-university-of-…
So there's a gay porn director secretly filming on Michigan's campus, as The Michigan Daily "reported today." That's pretty funny news, definitely worth swiping and posting as your lead story... Except it's an article from 2005. Ruh-roh. Maybe you shouldn't have fired 95 percent of your staff and replaced them with illiterate imbeciles who are willing to work for peanuts. And then, created the situation that allowed them to pass off other people's four-year-old work as original content.
The Daily put a disclaimer at the top of the article on their website. It reads: "For our annarbor.com visitors, this story is from 2005. It was inexplicably linked. We apologize for the inconvenience."
http://www.michigandaily.com/content/gay-porn-director-returning-campus
EDIT: The AnnArbor.com "article" has been taken down from the front page, though the link remains live.
September 15th, 2009 at 8:34 PM ^
The Ann Arbor News sucked, so why should it surprise us that the online version would as well?
September 15th, 2009 at 8:35 PM ^
OT: I was recruited a few years ago to do Gay Porn at a bar in Westland... they said I would get $1500 to JO or $2500 to do a scene but could never be with a woman...
I declined, of course. !
The funny thing is that the recruiter had a Michigan hat on and the other one had a Red Wing hat on. They tried to seduce me by talking Michigan football while I waited for my drinks at the bar.
September 15th, 2009 at 8:38 PM ^
What the fuck
September 15th, 2009 at 8:44 PM ^
lol...the point is that that element is out there... all over the fucking place
September 15th, 2009 at 9:06 PM ^
So what did you do with the $2500 ?
September 15th, 2009 at 10:48 PM ^
...bought your momma something nice to wear at night...
:P
September 15th, 2009 at 11:02 PM ^
So. What bar in Westland?
September 15th, 2009 at 11:26 PM ^
My brother lives in Westland. I'm now scared.
September 16th, 2009 at 4:20 AM ^
Im trying to remember the name of it...its on Ford Road a bit east of 275... has a dance floor and lots of skanky 20something girls go there...
September 15th, 2009 at 8:39 PM ^
The story was actually this:
http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/20920757/index.html
Just a porn company trying to do the same thing again?
September 15th, 2009 at 10:28 PM ^
A computer hacker, not a hack writer. If so, it was extremely well-played. Maybe it's from a disgruntled former Ann Arbor News employee who didn't get hired for A2.com.
September 15th, 2009 at 10:43 PM ^
I'd be more inclined to believe it was a hack writer. As someone pointed out, WDIV had an article about a similar topic yesterday: http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/20915128/detail.html
They probably heard about the article, searched online, and mistook the old article for the new one. Still stupid.
September 15th, 2009 at 10:47 PM ^
Wow, last week I posted a month-old link about Justin Boren's injury that I didn't check the pub date on. I edited it to admit my epic fail but this is much worse...
September 15th, 2009 at 11:13 PM ^
I actually have liked some of the recent annarbor.com reporting. Their stuff on the Pfizer purchase was good:
http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/university-of-michigans-ex-pfiz…
http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/ex-pfizer-site-gives-university…
September 15th, 2009 at 11:20 PM ^
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
September 16th, 2009 at 11:27 PM ^
FWIW, they had another time lapse today. This article on the soccer stadium features the release of a rendering previously released in May.
The real story is that the regents are authorizing the project for construction contract bidding.