[Imc-web] Re: [Imc-finance] Re: [Imc-info] april 1 humor on indy main

[Shayne ONeill]

Yeah I guess. Although I seriously hope people are not THAT confused to
believe any of it. I've put in a combination of both subtle errors and
glaring wrongness.

Wrong sirnames, a deliberate mispelling of Urbana Champaign . The Asia
Pacific targeting "Soccer moms" also has a subtle joke in that the region
covered here doesnt play soccer (we play australian rules football and
rugby[in new zealand]) and spell 'mom' 'mum'.

I think www-features are planning to do a bunch of nutty stories for a
while on april 1, then nuke them and leave a note explaining for the
humorless that it was just a big joke.

--
Shayne O'Neill
http://perth.indymedia.org
I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
 ----George W. Bush

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, faith swords wrote:

> oh good lord. this is wonderful. i thinkit should be widely circulated but
> NOT posted. this seems like the kind of thing that could be taken
> seriously by a lot of people and get a lot of panties in a twitch.
>
> in a bad way.
>
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Shayne ONeill wrote:
>
> >
> > Heres the text. I've got everyones sirnames deliberately wrong.. (I'ts got
> > me as the head of indymedia asia-pacific branch lamenting our need to go
> > beyond the hiphop demographic and target 'soccer moms')
> >
> > -->
> >
> > Indymedia.org team in merger talks with CBS/Viacom
> >
> > George Soros, CEO of Indymedia.org ,  has begun merger talks with the
> > CBS/Viacom
> > News Network to help bring together the Vibrant Staff of the Independant
> > News Network
> > with the resources and Global Consumer Reach of the CBS news network.
> >
> > This follows a meeting of the IMC Board of Directors and key Indymedia
> > shareholders
> > where it was decided that Indymedia needed to branch out from its
> > traditional liberal
> > readership demographic to encompass more mainstream news interests and
> > readerships.
> >
> > Shayne Brown, president of the Asia Pacific Indymedia Consortium said "Its
> > fine we have
> > our loyal readership we do. We wouldn't of gotten where we are without
> > them. But our growth
> > has been marred by our inability to target advertising at the so called
> > 'Soccer Mom'
> > demographic"
> >
> > A spokesperson for CBS/Viacom said "This represents an exciting stage for
> > the CBS/Viacom Network.
> > The Indymedia branding represents fantastic marketing oportunities for our
> > clients to market
> > product at the 'alternative' and 'hip hop' youth market that the Indymedia
> > Network represents.
> >
> > In other news, Solicitors have issued cease and desist orders against
> > Urbana Champaigne 'indymedia' centre
> > after it failed to stop using the Indymedia logo. Urbana Champaigne was a
> > former member of the indymedia
> > network, but was asked to leave when it refused to accept certain
> > categories of targeted media.
> >
> > "Indymedia has become obsessed with the dollar. UC-IMC feels that
> > Indymedias obsession with monetising its
> > brand name has detracted from Indymedias original goal of providing hip
> > alternative music news for fans
> > of Indy rock"
> >
> >
> > --
> > Shayne O'Neill
> > http://perth.indymedia.org
> > I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
> >  ----George W. Bush
> >
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> >
> > > awesome!  i think if we ever stop being able to laugh at ourselves than
> > > we're definitely taking ourselves too seriously.  i guess you know you're
> > > doing great things when folks start paradying you.  i think we should post
> > > the story as a feature on the UCIMC site also.
> > >
> > > ;)
> > >
> > > in solidarity,
> > >
> > > --sascha
> > >
> > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Shayne ONeill wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hey. I've proposed a story to indy global newswire for the april 1 joke
> > > > story idea
> > > >
> > > > "indymedia.org in merger talks with cbs/viacom"
> > > >
> > > > In the story I put imc-uc as the main oponents , claiming that indy is to
> > > > concerned with money when it should be focusing on its original goal of
> > > > providing news on indy rock music.
> > > >
> > > > Its a light hearted jab at the conspiacy stories that sometimes happen
> > > > that uc-imc is too successfull with its fundraising.
> > > >
> > > > If you folks take offence I'll take that bit out. :)
> > > >
> > > > Solidarity in good humor;-
> > > > Shayne.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Shayne O'Neill
> > > > http://perth.indymedia.org
> > > > I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
> > > >  ----George W. Bush
> > > >
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