I have never heard of anyone say "I got into the news game to meet girls"
― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
lol rogue "of" there, you know what I mean
― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
you get to wear a hat taht sez 'press' in it, totally takes the pressure off introducing yourself, it's a readymade excuse to chat whoever up!
― j., Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
Lol @ Dan's DN
'News is a flirty business' is an insane thing to say. What it's saying is: 'sexual harassment is part of the news business'. That may be closer to the truth. But then try and make it not so.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
I watched Network the day after the Charlie Rose story broke and it was pretty startling, as prescient as it is in many ways it also shows & celebrates that kind of "news is a flirty business" mindset. not to mention that movie is single-handedly responsible for Aaron Sorkin
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
The whole Matt Lauer Office Sex Button thing should be a really good jumping off point for figuring out how the bosses at NBC has indulged and protected him.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
oh plz let geraldo disappear
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
The tweets that follow that are, how you say, 'interesting.'
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
the twist in al capones vault should have been that it turned into a real life cask of amontillado feat. Geraldo
― omar little, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
the key thread of the Lauer Variety article is that he and his ilk are in-house philanderers so they can keep up their 'public face' bullshit.
ie I wonder if he had his remote door lock installed, or if it was inherited.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
It's funny how he got into the biz to meet girls when most women think journalists and journalism majors are, with good reason, among the least concerned with personal hygiene and basic standards of dress.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
the only positive thing Geraldo ever did was not avoid a chair thrown by a neo nazi on his tv show.
― omar little, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
lol Ned OTM
― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Myself-Geraldo-Paisner-Daniel/dp/B000ZPOWA4
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
what the--!
― omar little, Wednesday, November 29, 2017
decades' worth of macalester alumna shaking their heads like damn son you didn't know?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
demanding someone suck your dick isn't flirting, Gerardo
― akm, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
There's no way to know if that door lock button was installed for Hugh Downs in 1965
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
Breaking News: NBC received at least 2 more complaints about Matt Lauer, hours after his firing https://t.co/w1gdKZlJcb— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 29, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
Apparently these door lock switches are a thing at NBC.
FYI, as strange as it sounds in print, several execs at NBC News have this auto door close switch under their office desks at 30 Rock. I always found it to be intimidating but not unusual.— Betsy Fischer Martin (@BFischerMartin) November 29, 2017
― Moodles, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
why... would you need to trap people in your office. or block people out, I guess?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
well, it's TV!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
Wouldn't want to expend valuable energy standing up and walking to the door to lock it.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
It would be extremely intimidating if the door locked while both hands are still on the desk. I guess one would innocently assume they exist because rich people don't like walking across their giant offices to lock a door to have a private "business discussion".
― Evan, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
how else would Ned Beatty be able to give that crazy speech in Network if not for automatic curtain sliders and door lockers
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
having a way to lock your door from your desk doesn't strike me as intrinsically creepy, but when you're known as a serial sexual harasser...yeah
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:53 (six years ago) link
can only assume these guys also have a trap-door button under their desk like mr burns
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 23:05 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onSbOXKDfaQ
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
Just a little flirting
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
having a way to lock your door from your desk doesn't strike me as intrinsically creepy
nah, it's really really fucking creepy.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
if you want to lock your door behind you, you can just do that as you enter a room and close the door behind you. the reason you would need this button is for locking other people into the room with you. which is creepy. unless there is a good non-creepy reason to lock people into a room without their knowledge i am overlooking.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
Don't want anyone walking in and stealing jokes.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
if you lock the door remotely from the desk couldn't the person trying to escape just unlock the door on the way out?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
of course higher level executives want to be able to close doors without having to get up. they might trip over their own shortcomings on the way from their desks
― maura, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
Yeah it's creepy af
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
― reggae mike love (polyphonic)
There may be no unlocking mechanism on the the door itself, which ups the creepiness factor.
― nickn, Thursday, 30 November 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
You want the locking button because you're a high-powered borderline sociopath executive who basically farms out every bit of real work in life to someone else, time is money and time spent taking ten steps to the door is money wasted.
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 30 November 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
these ads still pop up on youtube; they are feeling less acceptable by the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6aIPUusP5A
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 30 November 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, November 29, 2017 6:20 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm, its obv creepy but i dont think its about locking people in as much as locking ppl out without the person in the room noticing
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 30 November 2017 00:23 (six years ago) link
xpost I dunno, as long as anyone who purchases a Devour frozen meal after watching those commercials is put on some sort of watchlist, they may serve an ultimately beneficent purpose.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Thursday, 30 November 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, November 29, 2017 6:36 PM (one hour ago)
it sounds like the door locks from the inside, not the outside. anyway this is an irrelevant point really
― k3vin k., Thursday, 30 November 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
my dad loves Willie Geist and said he would be really bummed if he ended up getting outed as a predator. he was like "he's supposed to be just a great guy, a good family man, has kids, married his middle school sweetheart..." lol i was endeared by my dad's uncharacteristically sincere appreciation for morning tv show host Willie Geist
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 November 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
I met Willie Geist at a journalism convention in 2013 and he came off like the puffy-faced sociopath in Breaking Bad but with a wicked wit (which he flexes on Morning Joe)
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:08 (six years ago) link
which puffy faced sociopath, Dale Boettecker? the guy that ends up paralyzed?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:16 (six years ago) link
and yea he's hilarious
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link
A few words on my history with Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegone and A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION which may surprise you...I grew up LOVING A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION.— Steven Thrasher (@thrasherxy) November 29, 2017
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link
I don't wanna hear it.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:30 (six years ago) link
not to spoil thrasher's tweetstorm but he quickly learns the error of his ways
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
Keillor looks like a melted candle made of dough
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 November 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link
Okay, Lauer clearly needs to be arrested at this point.
This story has changed. The original version said only that Lauer "had sex with her." Now it says he "locked the door and sexually assaulted her" and that she "passed out and had to be taken to a nurse." https://t.co/jHJg03HglB— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) November 30, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 November 2017 02:51 (six years ago) link
welp egg on my face. adam otm!
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 30 November 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link