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-m...
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.
The Ann Arbor News sucked, so why should it surprise us that the online version would as well?
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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.
"You are what your record says you are" - Bill Parcells
What the fuck
Rock bottom's where we live
And still we dig these trenches
lol...the point is that that element is out there... all over the fucking place
"You are what your record says you are" - Bill Parcells
So what did you do with the $2500 ?
...bought your momma something nice to wear at night...
:P
"You are what your record says you are" - Bill Parcells
So. What bar in Westland?
B: Class-action suit? And the first thing you asked was whether or not they got that thing you sent them?
P: Check out the ha-has on Ms. Stenopad.
My brother lives in Westland. I'm now scared.
Rock bottom's where we live
And still we dig these trenches
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...
"You are what your record says you are" - Bill Parcells
The story was actually this:
http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/20920757/index.html
Just a porn company trying to do the same thing again?
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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.
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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.
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...
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-pfize...
http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/ex-pfizer-site-gives-university-...
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
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.
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