This is the comment of the year.Doesn't this mean that Lou Mongello should now be barred from any Disney park east of the Mississippi?![]()
This is the comment of the year.Doesn't this mean that Lou Mongello should now be barred from any Disney park east of the Mississippi?![]()
You're right, by repeating what is said in a comic book I'm committing slander.Be very careful what you post. Apparently, if you say anything that could remotely be considered negative about a public figure and how he conducts himself, you might be at risk of being sued for libel or slander or some such thing.
I learned that earlier this year, from some of the preeminent legal scholars who happen to frequent these boards.
Mind....blown.
Stomach...turned.
You're right, by repeating what is said in a comic book I'm committing slander.![]()
Methinks that the people that complain about bloggers getting treated well, are just jealous.
Personally, I pride myself in my ability to not be for sale. No part of me can be bought. Sorry. The gripes I pick up aren't about what these sell-outs get, its the deception in taking the handouts then putting themselves out there as unofficial or non-biased. Sorry, if you're on the gifty-list and taking the goodies you've now got a vested interest in being Mickey's toy.
But isn't there a certain in-joke here? Great satire? The subject turns to the press being parasites without integrity, and immediately Lou Mongello is named. For WDW Radio. The least trusthworthy, least serious form of press in modern America.
America's press is portrayed as a kind of risible circus. There is a serious issue, and it is being covered by a clown from a theme park radio station.
Spirit could've written the captions above.
If you read this it's actually a dig at podcasters/bloggers and current media. They do call them parasites.
You're missing the point. It may be a 'dig', but it's an injoke. You do NOT get to do what was done without approval of an awful lot of people. Not without suffering consequences.
One hand doesn't always know what the other is doing in these situations - especially in the vast reaches of the Disney media empire.
I may not have your spirited connections. But I don't have a profound lack of knowledge for how media conglomerates operate, either... including this one.
It's entire possible someone in Disney corporate had his name put into the comic to make Lou's dreams come true. Maybe even probable.
But it's also entirely possible this was done as a favor to him from someone at the comic without going beyond that. You might be surprised at how few people it can take to get something like this through the cracks, starting with an editor who didn't think twice about it because neither the name "Lou Mongello" nor "WDW Radio" would mean anything to him/her.
I think we're all for sale to some degree. It's just that most moral/ethical folks will have VERY high prices (lots of zeros to 'buy us'). A week at WDW all expenses paid might ellicit a thank you from me and maybe a nice bottle of wine for whomever arranged it, but it will in no way influence my thoughts/feelings/postings.
Now, take a Mommy Blogger from New Jersey or Kansas or North Carolina, that week at the Poly for her family of four or five means vastly different things to her.
Access to Imagineers/execs/celebs? I don't need to talk to Marty Sklar for five minutes with a publicist sitting there watching every word and giving facial cues when I can simply sit down at the Beverly Connection Soup Plantation and have a meal (as I have). I don't need to get five minutes with Phil Holmes when I've had drinks with Michael Eisner at real 5-star hotels. I don't need to take a photo with an ABC actor when I can talk to them at TV Academy events.
I realize I am not like every other poster here. We're all unique and I have a very unique life, but my point is that I'm not wowed by a Disney press junket in the way someone who has never been to an Emmys or an NBA Finals or a Golden Globes might be.
Disney likes the social media whores because they can be bought off for very little (see: Splitsville: A Night of MAGICal Bowling Unless You Get Stuck on the Same Lane as Lou Mongello).
Mind....blown.
Stomach...turned.
BTW, you do realize that I have a broader audience by posting here on MAGIC than Lou Mongello does, right? You know that dude ... who has a weekly podcast that people know to tune into. He almost broke the 500 viewer mark live at the Fantasyland media party, which happened to be scheduled during his regular weekly podcast time. Doncha all just love the Spirited threads that go on forever with no advanced notice and no website touting them? In other words, people have to seek my stuff out (yet they do). Hmm ... now what's that about jealousy?
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