Have y’all noticed that ZERO negative or questioning comments are allowed on Jamie Lee Curtis’ blogs on HP? She has a column about concerns about hollywood violence viewable by children — this after several decades of making millions from promoting it herself. What a hypocrite! But try to get that past the censors of HP. Maybe it is in her contract…
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Wow! Lots of response — This was my first post on POV. Thanks for the thoughts.
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Great post, keep’em coming…
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I never post a comment when an article is fully mod. I am also sick of the celebrity culture in this country. Jamie Lee worried about violence? Please. Suzanne Sommers a cancer expert? Hardly. Playboy bimbo Jenny McCarthy knows the cure for autism? Not. And anyone wonders why Sarah Palin has a following?
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Yeah, I agree. I rarely bother to post anymore on the fully modded articles, and I never post on celeb articles unless i have to……..I will post, as I did on Jim Carrey’s article, in order to debunk the bs that the anti-vax crowd spews. But that’s all.
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Very true!
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Good morning!
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I’ve found that most celebrity articles are fully moderated and usually ignore them for that reason.
I have read some though, and seems the comments on the fully moderated threads are people gushing over the celebrity.
Does anyone else wonder why celebrities ask for our financial help to build schools or provide medicine for foreign lands, instead of using their money to help Americans here at home?
I applaud their generosity in their humanitarian efforts in helping people, but is it wrong thinking on my part to question why people like Bill and Melinda Gates, Madonna, Oprah, etc don’t spend some of their millions here at home?
Perhaps they do, but it seems with the financial crisis and so many Americans without health care, and so many without homes, and our schools need fixing desperately that celebrities should funnel some of their money to help Americans?
We are one of the richest industrialized nations, and it bothers me that with all the resources and wealth here at home that we allow Americans to go hungry or die from lack of adequate health care.
Isn’t there a saying about charity begins at home?
Am I wrong for thinking this way?
Thanks!
Bill Gates is spending his own money. And he’s very tight with how it’s spent. That’s his right but he does control the end result with it. Especially in his education initiatives, not so much in his health initiatives.
My big pet peeve one is professional athletes who lend their image or appearance at an event to bring in money. The top NBA players make $23 million per year and play (or are scheduled to) 82 games in a year. That translates into $280,000 per game. And they’re willing to contribute their image. BFD. How about each one of them dedicating say, the salary for 6 games a year to 6 different personally chosen charities? Now that would be helpful. This year 59 players are earning over $10 Million in the NBA alone. Even Steve Nash (god bless him) is making around $12 M a year.
Of course, there are statistics that show that professional athletes go broke quickly after retirement, but for them it’s either bad planning or unfortunate decisions, for the rest of us, it’s the hardships of life.
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Afternoon guys, Javas I agree with you on celebrities promoting overseas charities, kinda ticks me off too, when so much is needed here…I think there are only two or three celebs using there time and money to help re-build New Orleans after Katrina…
As for Bill Gates, I tried to get one of his small educational grants for our small non-profit library here in town, the hoops that you had to jump through were rediculus. I understand that you need some sort of control as to where the money went, but this was a little over the top.. in the end we found the money locally….
Monk, the only professional athletes that I know of that are pretty hands on with charity work are Tiger Woods and C.C. Sabathia of the Yankees.
Tiger has built, I think it’s a, but not sure, Charter School and is very active in breaking down the color barrier in golf. C.C. Sabathia this year went back to his hometown in Ca., outside of L.A., and along with his mother and sisters, filled 200+ brand new backpacks with school supplies and handed then out to every kid in town…he also gives of his time and money to the Revive Inner City Baseball every year…
As a volunteer, money is great but sometimes hands on time works much more…don’t get me started about the Junior League!!!!
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I know the Suns players have had their own private charitiies over the years. Most of them didn’t go for big publicity. Kevin Johnson (1990s) was pretty hands on. And you do get the occasional “going out to distribute food” to the needy fans things, but that is really pretty controlled, too. I think to me the players make big money off their fandom and need to be putting more back into their local and hometown communities.
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You make a good point.
The other day I was at work and there was a TV on somewhere nearby. I could hear an appeal for donations. Something like: “for just a dollar a day you can feed a hungry child.” We’ve all seen those ads for third world country charitable groups. But this was for kids in the United States!! A sobering moment, to say the least.
When the top 1% owns as much as the bottom 95% something is very wrong.
Sorry for veering off topic there, but your observation that we need help on the home front as well as abroad rings true.
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I’m pretty much convinced that the authors have control over the posting of comments. I got into it with that blogger-couple (is it Ed and Deb Shapiro? something like that) because they were buds with Monica Lewinski and were all about “re-habbing” her image, so that she can have some sort of credible career. Well, I don’t want to see Lewinski suffer forever, but I also don’t buy the story that she was an innocent child who was victimized by a nefarious predator. I didn’t state my position that way, of course, but I did question their take on things.
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Well, turns out they also have some sort of home-based business selling “positive-vibe self-improvement workshops” or something, and they started dumping on me for “putting negative energy out into the universe” by not loving Lewinski. That set me off, because I’ve known a couple people who bought into sort of woo-woo pseudo-spiritual practices for illnesses instead of getting actual treatment and it didn’t end well. So voo-doo “science” creeps me out and that was what they were peddling on their website. I called them “snake oil peddlars” and the gloves were off.
They scrubbed every logical argument I had posted, but left their own posts. So, to readers, it looked as though I was just reduced to silence by the power of their rhetoric. In reality, of course, I was gagged.
Now, I’m unable to post any comment on anything they post, even if the comment happens to be “good morning.”
HuffPo, of course, is fine with this.
One positive result of the whole thing is that I have a new appreciation for what it must be like to live in a country where there really is seriously oppressive censorship and no freedom of the press. Not pretty to lose your voice.
Kesmarn — I remember the exact column you are talking about. I rarely post on those blogs because they are so heavily censored, but that one drew me in with the “rehabilitate Monica” theme. I have to confess that I read the entire Starr report years ago — all the gory details including Monica’s testimony. She is a real piece of work and deliberately set out to seduce Bill the Easily Seduced. Very early on, she was showing off her thong underpants and having discussions about them with ole Bill. That is how it all started according to her testimony, which was quite graphic.
Anyway, in the column, I said something about how that was nice that Monica was “forgiving herself,” but that I was not ready to forgive her for the destabilizing effect on our nation of her idiotic actions. Someone else then pointed out that the column really wasn’t about Monica, it was about this program those two promote. Was that you? Anyway, mostly the comments were people gushing about this program and its concepts. The whole Monica headline was just a gimmick to get people to read it — the only connection was that they had been at some dinner where Monica was present. What a sham.
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Kesmarn, that sounds typical. The Shapiros are like many in the “industry”, and I’m pretty skeptical about it too. I caught a Dr. Phil while in the waiting room at the doctor’s office. He’s right about half the time, but so is a coin flip. Their own arrogance and desire for money kicks in (most of the name ones aren’t poor). Before anyone starts saying how the mental health industry helps lots of people, I don’t disagree, but there are a lot of individuals out there with their own agendas, too. If you need one, quickly decide if the one you’re seeing is a good fit and if it isn’t, move on, for your own sake.
But yes, the HP authors do seem to have “life and death” control over comments. There are several bloggers there who I do respect but won’t comment on because of the frustration of the system or the fanatical followers. It’s just another part of what’s gotten me to not even look at the content there now, besides the concerns over journalistic honesty.
And it goes without saying that the Queen absolutely does. Notice she’s talking something about how she should have sued John McCain today. That’s all the further I could read before I decided it was just another Arianna blow job.
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All blogs are now fully modded, but not all authors have control over the comments. At least, not according to Cesca, as well as my own observations.
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I should probably re-state that if the authors don’t have censorship powers over the comment (which really may well be the case), then someone at HuffPo must, because they evidently are very protective of (at least) some of their authors. There’s likely a money link of some sort there.
Also–didn’t mean to imply that I’m opposed to “alternative medicine” in toto. Just the folks who try to steer people away from evidence-based practices in mental or physical health treatment and toward stuff like eating blue-green algae, drinking ionized water, wearing crystals that “tune into universal healing vibes” and stuff like that.
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Probably not, directly anyway. But are there any more subtle ways, like defining the “attitude” of the moderators assigned to the piece or suggesting that the author will pick up their marbles and go elsewhere if they aren’t treated better?
As you know from your own blogging, most writers who do so sincerely put a little of themselves out there and are sensitive to criticism, even well presented, honest criticism, because it’s human nature. Now to put it into an open pit in today’s environment is an even greater risk. Here I’ve been willing to be far more honest than I ever would have at HP, because of the environment. But we cannot grow without good feedback. On the otherhand, we wither with ugly negative feedback.
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I really don’t know. I do know that the celebrity blogs, and the “living” blogs rarely alllow criticism to go through. HuffPost has a very bad rep for their “science” type articles, and I know that someone is preventing criticism of some of those authors.
In Cesca’s case, he used to have control until he stepped on toes, namely those of Morning Joe, and Cesca then lost control over comments.
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Cesca is always heavily criticized on his articles, and always allowed the criticism to stand even when he did have control.
To me, this is just a little silly. So what if Curtis has a fragile ego? In general, she does stand up for the right things.
BTW, ALL of the “blogs” on Huffpost have been FULLY moderated since Bob Cesca got in to it with Morning Joe over comments Cesca and Cesca’s commenters made on one of Cesca’s posts.
It’s a well known feud, and resulted in said full moderation.
Interesting user name you chose. I find it slightly insulting.
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I agree, I don’t see any need to attack JLC. She is essentially cool.
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I’ve heard that some authors are even able to moderate their own posts or I’m sure that they have people do it for them. I know I have blogged back and forth with a couple authors a few times.
How dare she write a column like that after exploiting her fame for that one movie over most of her career. The hypocrisy does not start and end with the right wing end of the political spectrum. There is plenty of hypocrisy in the progressive blog world to go around. Just by using so many Hollywood types to write serious columns is a problem in my view.
Also don’t forget if you are part of the progressive “club” so to speak you get a pass. I’ve seen dozens and dozens of times progressive writers, write total nonsense and the huffy lemmings agree with it. If you don’t agree with something I say I hope you say so because I don’t want the Planet to be an echo chamber.
I saw Wanda Sykes’ comedy routine on cable the other day and she brought up the irony of the fact that pop icon Jamie Lee Curtis is doing those Activia commercials. Joking about how Jamie Lee Curtis can’t shit. Well that could be the reaon she’s full of it.
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Is it that the Progressive writers get a pass or only those who someone has decided spoke the “true words” of the day? Go out and be in support of the troops but question certain things about what they do or do not get and see how quickly you get nailed by people. I’m not big on pensions at age 38 for 20 year servicepeople, if you want to know. That is expensive on the budget, and it’s not like in the 1930s when a 38 year old serviceman was much more worn out. Or question the need for certain bills, and you will get frozen. Everyone has an agenda, and it get’s really obvious in some places.
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Yup it’s authors that comply with the memes and narratives on huffy that get the pass. But of course no matter what Aryanna writes she gets a pass my most of her minions.
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Just rememmber there are a lot of us who won’t even read her stuff now. I saw today’s piece, read about a dozen words, laughed, and went elsewhere. The same goes when she’s on television. I don’t consider her as an “expert” source so I mute her. (I give her my “Pat Buchanan” treatment) I just don’t want the MSM to think that she “represents” me as a person. She doesn’t.
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