Seeing this has been a long, tiring week (well, for me at least), I thought rather than a series of tech or law posts this evening, I'd embed four videos that I find funny. The first two come from one of my favourite blogs TVNewser and show that newsreaders and their stories can be funny. The last two are promotions for upcoming movies. If you have the time or inclination to watch one skip right to the end, as I saved the best for last.
First up is NBC newsreader Brian Williams telling a very strange story that will never be seen on the Nightly News:
Next is a Fox & Friends segment that resulted in a lawsuit. Here is the background:
A judge ruled yesterday the slander lawsuit brought by Lewiston Middle School superintendent Leon Levesque against Fox News will not go to trial.
The full story goes back to April 2007, when Lewiston Middle School made news because of students leaving a ham sandwich on the table of Somali students to insult their religion. Then, a fake news story came out about the incident, with fake quotes from Levesque, and Fox & Friends picked up on it as if it were real. Brother blog FishbowlNY detailed the whole incident last year.
"So many people are typing in saying, 'you're making this story up,'" said co-anchor Steve Doocy. "No we're not making this up."
Co-anchor Brian Kilmeade responded: "You know I hope we're not being duped."
They were. But as the judge ruled, failure to fully investigate the story, "even when a reasonably prudent person would have done so, is not sufficient to establish reckless disregard."
And here is the clip:
Now here a clip promoting the movie Heckler, featuring comedians recounting experiences with heckler:
And finally here is Ben Stiller directing Robert Downey, Jr. to torture Jack Black for the sake of promoting their upcoming film, Tropic Thunder:
