[107472] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cpunk XXX Movie
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu Jan 14 19:49:37 1999
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9901141433270.28676-100000@get.wired.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:25:58 -0500
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@wired.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 5:35 PM -0500 on 1/14/99, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> Oh, come now, Tim. She's following up on an already-published article
> (though I can't vouch for the facts in it), and it's easy enough to write
> a reasonable piece that doesn't laugh at the cypherpunks.
>
> (Some may deserve it but that's a different story.)
Some cypherpunks deserve all the laughs they get, of course. Especially
when they find themselves literally bare-assed in front of a motion-picture
camera.
> On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Tim May wrote:
> > This kind of "stunt journalism" (those whacky Cypherpunks, those crypto
> > freaks of the week, look at the funny hats, etc.) is getting way out of
> > hand.
Actually, the technical definition of "stunt" journalism is a story in
which the journalist is a participant in a stunt of some kind, writing the
story in the first person.
Pulitzer's sending a delicate female to report from a
turn-of-the-(19th)-century insane asylum, or the same Pulitzer female going
around the world in 80 days, or a another female from a Springfield, MA,
newspaper being the first person to rather perilously cross a barely built
bridge in the manner of a tightrope walker, would all be good examples.
It isn't until the turn-of-the-20th-century that you see male "stunt"
reporters, actually.
Declan McCullough's participation on the cypherpunks list qualifies, I
think. :-). So does virtually all of Brock Meeks' work that I've seen so
far.
And, of course, Tim, there's the immortal Hunter S. Thompson.
Cheers,
Robert Hettinga
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