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(Guardian)   In-the-field TV reporters can no longer cover boring news stories without looking over their shoulder for the Cheese Ninja   (observer.guardian.co.uk) divider line 46
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2005-07-03 02:00:07 AM
i've been following this for a while. these guys are hysterical.
 
2005-07-03 04:32:12 AM
arent we ALL looking for the Cheese Ninja?


/I love ninjas with all of my body (including my pee pee).
 
2005-07-03 04:33:16 AM
This is the greatest thing I've read all week. Go, go cheese ninja ('s) !!!!
 
2005-07-03 04:33:49 AM
They have the right idea.

Putting said idea into practice needs work, apparently.
 
2005-07-03 04:34:22 AM
If i was a cheese ninja i would defintley throw babby swiss the hole make it glide through the air. The could score a fatality
 
2005-07-03 04:35:24 AM
Dont care about spelling or grammer. Screw you grammer and spelling Nazi's
 
2005-07-03 04:44:33 AM
Their tactics have upset producers at stations whose bulletins have been sabotaged.

'Most of the news directors I've seen quoted don't understand what their complaint is.'


I think their ignorance is the protesters point, eh? If these "news producers" don't know why they suck, then they suck. If they are just in it for the money, well, at least I can understand that.
 
2005-07-03 04:44:46 AM
Is this the same Cheese Ninja that kidnapped the Limburger baby?
 
2005-07-03 04:50:29 AM
Deserves a HERO tag.
 
2005-07-03 04:50:38 AM
That Cheese-Ninja was really disappointing. I thought he might do some real damage, but no, he was crap.
 
2005-07-03 04:53:07 AM
I know have a cheesy discharge when I piss because I loved the Cheese Ninja with all of my body (including my pee pee)
 
2005-07-03 04:57:46 AM
clown wins

/cant sleep, clown will eat me
 
2005-07-03 05:10:10 AM
Nice...
 
2005-07-03 05:10:37 AM
This Cheese Ninja is intriguing and I wish to subscribe to his newsletter.
 
2005-07-03 05:14:10 AM
threadjack

Anyone know what happened to those new abu ghraib photos that were supposed to come out thursday or friday?

/threadjack
 
2005-07-03 05:21:33 AM
A campaign of 'hacktivism' aimed at improving the quality of local television news has left reporters fearing on-air ambushes from a giant tiger or a cheese-flinging martial arts expert.
 
2005-07-03 05:22:25 AM
Oops! I meant to comment on how that was one of the greatest sentences for opening an article I've seen. hehe.
 
2005-07-03 05:31:16 AM
Radioactive_Clown: Is this the same Cheese Ninja that kidnapped the Limburger baby?


Ahahahahahahahahahaha.
*ahem*

*giggle*
 
2005-07-03 05:35:01 AM
Radioactive_Clown wins teh intranet AND owes me a new keyboard and monitor


ah hell just get me a whole new laptop
 
2005-07-03 05:45:19 AM
Shock tactics have been employed by a New York-based group that says it has had enough of TV stations feeding viewers an insipid diet of minor car accidents, petty crime and house fires in which nobody gets hurt.

Yeah, we want major car accidents, serious crimes and house fires in which somebody gets hurt.
 
2005-07-03 06:16:27 AM
I say they need more news stories on Paris Hilton... they should ask fark admin
 
2005-07-03 06:37:51 AM
Independent analysis appears to support claims that much US TV news is banal or irrelevant.

'Banal or irrelevant?' is that the new Fox News tagline?

/Beats 'fair and balanced.'
 
2005-07-03 06:43:45 AM
I for one welcome our rennetless overlords.
 
2005-07-03 06:58:13 AM
Oh my god, that's awesome. This is the funniest thing I've seen in hours.
 
2005-07-03 07:03:14 AM
Least funny thing I've seen in hours.

Just woke up.
 
2005-07-03 07:28:03 AM
These clowns are from Rochester. My station is the one that got hit by the "Invisible Suit" guy the first time - the fellow named "Buck Owens" is really a 33 year old with a kid whose wife is a snatch doctor, so she pulls in all the money while he prances around ruining live shots. He also fails to mention that his actions came close to violating NYS stalker laws. Must be nice to not have to work.

Idiots with too much free time, the whole lot of them.
 
2005-07-03 07:30:15 AM

OMFG - That's the SHIZZNITE! Hijacking the local news!

Those coiffed, made-up dead-brains don't know how to handle REAL PEOPLE getting in and monkeywrenching their bullshiat.

And playing Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" on one of the vids was FANTASTIC!

Fark the media - monkeywrench it!

 
2005-07-03 08:03:40 AM
Roger Arseways:

Your post is the kind of response you would expect from a TV station being criticized.

1. Ad hominem? Check
2. Not address the criticism? Check

Here is a tip for you. Look up the proper term for 'snatch doctor' it might help you sound like less of a 'berk'.
 
2005-07-03 08:12:43 AM
Absolutely brilliant, and necessary. TV news is fearmongering mind-mush. "Local" news is worthless. National news is the same 10 patriotic wire stories repeated on every station. These days, to distract from the war and politics, half of the stories are about missing persons.


Heroes trashing garbage.
 
2005-07-03 08:57:49 AM
Impressive. I'm almost that old, and my kids aren't even married.
 
2005-07-03 09:58:42 AM
O&A did that years ago,



Tell em, fred!
 
2005-07-03 10:04:52 AM
This is much more clever than O&A's fans yelling out their names.

Direct link to great video of the cheese ninja in action...
http://www.newsbreakers.org/video/Broadband/albany/WXXA_bbnd.wmv
 
2005-07-03 10:28:24 AM
This is much more clever than O&A's fans yelling out their names.

hey, come on.. sometimes they yell "O&A Party rock"
 
2005-07-03 10:49:46 AM
Cheese Ninja away!
 
2005-07-03 10:51:31 AM
T-Minus 15 days to a "PATRIOT Act Terror Death-Ray" and "no-mo'fication of newsbrakers, LLC." and counting ..

/got nothin' else ..
 
2005-07-03 11:01:07 AM
revvirtue:

Independent analysis appears to support claims that much US TV news is banal or irrelevant.

'Banal or irrelevant?' is that the new Fox News tagline?



I agree, but consider the source. The Guardian (or any other Brit-tab) calling another news outlets "banal and irrelevant" is like Cameron Manheim telling Kirsty Alley she should lose a few pounds...
 
2005-07-03 11:48:37 AM
Is it just me or is this just not funny?
 
2005-07-03 11:50:45 AM
'Most of the news directors I've seen quoted don't understand what their complaint is.'

. . . yet somehow the reporter who wrote the article seemed to understand. Is it just that tabloid reporters are somehow more insightful than television reporters?

Guess I'm sorta reaching to make the same point as EZ1923
 
2005-07-03 12:47:06 PM
ah yes...culturejamming at its best
 
2005-07-03 12:48:54 PM
Chook Cheek:

I think their ignorance is the protesters point, eh? If these "news producers" don't know why they suck, then they suck. If they are just in it for the money, well, at least I can understand that.

Money? Hah! With few exceptions, people who work in TV news are underpaid and overworked. You'd be surprised how many alcoholics there are in this business.
 
2005-07-03 03:38:14 PM
These guys are great! I see a volunteer opportunity.

Congrats to Fark to getting the message out farther. I dumped my TV awhile ago, but I almost wish I had it back now....well, not really.
 
2005-07-03 05:33:08 PM
EightDeerOcelotClaw:
They have the right idea.
Putting said idea into practice needs work, apparently.


The idea is great, but those videos just. aren't. funny.

I watched a dozen of their videos and the only funny part was when the guy tried to get back his can of Progresso Italian Wedding soup after being fired.

Oh wow, they messed up a camera used by one of the "Bowling for Columbine" reporters. They asked another reporter why the news kept reporting murders, rapes, etc. And in response, the guy just rolled up his window. Or the guy dressed up as the grim reaper.

Maybe it was the huge introduction to the videos that killed any sense of spontaneity. They're just trying way too hard.

Watching a guy randomly cracking eggs on his head behind a reporter: funny.
Watching a guy buy eggs, fill the pocket of his apron with eggs, and then crack the eggs over his head while standing behind a reporter while one of his friends calls the tv station to ask why someone was cracking eggs on his head: not nearly as funny.
 
2005-07-03 05:39:42 PM
Ok, the Invisible suit guy is funny.

But his segments also don't seem to have long, boring introductions.
 
2005-07-03 06:12:56 PM
yeah this borders on lame. Some of it made me slightly giggle, but that's it.
 
2005-07-04 11:12:28 AM
It's some funny stuff. But, they have such a beef with the news industry and yet it's just kinda very vague on what they want. I read all over their website about yes they want less murders and stuff on news. But, it felt like they wanted not less murders... it sounds like they want less scary news, the way the news is presented.

Or maybe they just want all the murder, car crashes, baby kidnappings stuff gone. If so, what do you want on the news? Even as I watched all of their stuff, it is pretty funny crap and interupting live T.V. is always entertaining. I think I have see a few shows about that.
 
2005-07-04 02:59:13 PM
Captain Kibble - what point would that be? That news is a business? I don't like my company and I'm glad that I'm a union employee, otherwise things would be worse for me and my co-workers, but the Newsbreakers don't serve any purpose other than disrupting newscasts. Sure, it may be funny, and I'd love to never have to work any kind of job and just go around complaining about the media and how corrupt it is.

These guys are clowns. Outside of the newsroom, the general reaction to them is "Some idiot got on the news." Way to change the world.
 
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