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a local radio station,britney spears, and the smoking gun :)
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Posted by: TheeMon
yeah i was driving to school listening to some random bullshit about britney spears and her marrage/devorce yeah you guys have heard about it, noone cares either But the kool thing(reason why im posting) they mentioned the smoking gun  they actually mentioned the smoking gun, imagine ppl barely able to understand why dial-up users need a second fone line, with very basic computer skills(if any), picture rednecked farm boys and these kind of ppl mentioned the smoking gun, now i dont normally pay attention to the media but i found it kinda kool that they mentioned the smoking gun
Posted by: SKYHN
CNN and Fox News mention the smoking gun all the time. They usually have to site it as a source of some of their news stories.
Posted by: 9:35
Boy oh boy what an exciting tale! It's almost as if the Internet is used as a worldwide communication tool!
Posted by: Tecil
That is if you can understand wtf you just read.
Posted by: Erekose
ah, but, 9, "worldwide" takes on different context in certain locations. as thee said, the locals there are exactly that, local, their "worldwide view" doesn't extend all that far really. now as to the radio show using the smoking gun by name, why use a context no one would understand. especially in the mass media market. if no one is going to catch the reference it is pointless...
so what thee is saying, is that even where he lives (as "backwards" as he might see it to be), a program that relies very heavily on people listening to what they are saying is using something from a realm previously thought outside the experience of the general populace
Posted by: Shalome
Even most local stations use the AP Newswire for their news sources.  AP News quotes the Smoking Gun all the time.
Most local radio stations are also affiliates of larger radio networks (ClearChannel, Westward One, etc), meaning they get their news from the same sources.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
Smoking Gun gets mentioned everytime in the radio station I listen to, as well as other non-conservative shows I listen to or watch ... surprisingly, most people are already of aware what it is, which leads us to believe that computers and the internet are no longer an exclusive geek thing...
Posted by: Tecil
Most of our stations around here are pretty conservative and they quote off of Fark (which takes stuff from The Smoking Gun) all the time.
The day you work on your hillbilly uncle’s PC and find porn is the day you know it’s not just a geek thing anymore.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
Hell, the day that hillbilly bought a PC is already pretty armageddonisque (eh?) to me, hehe ...
Posted by: Tecil
So true.
I won't even go into the hassle I had with getting his digital camera to connect up, even after he read the manual and called their support line.
Posted by: TheeMon
you guys missed the point im talking about bfe here not in some city, i could expect a city to name a few websites but way out here where people still use windows 95 and still dont know how to email someone it kinda shocked me that they even used computers let alone name a site ive been too
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Originally posted by Erekose
so what thee is saying, is that even where he lives (as "backwards" as he might see it to be), a program that relies very heavily on people listening to what they are saying is using something from a realm previously thought outside the experience of the general populace
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if i read that right then yeah
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