Letters to the Editor
NathanJr.
Published Letters: 6
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FIX OR KILL
[Read the article: "Anger. Pain. Death. Madness"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, so the fix-it-or-kill-it debate has finally gravitated over to the hometown baghdad videos.
Are the editors even reading this feedback? How many of us have registered new 'letter' accounts just so we could come here and post about how pathetic and embarrassing VD has become?
Seriously, VD and the A&E section in general has just crashed and burned in the last few months.
Rabbit Bites and Hometown Baghdad? With the occassional Maher slipped in?
Really? That's it? You people are freaking lazy.
Any premium subscribers care to chime in so that the editors might finally take notice?
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yoo hoo! EDITORS!
[Read the article: Rabbit Bites: We're all Alec Baldwin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't like these videos. I don't find them funny and I cannot understand most of what they are saying. But I gave them a chance and now I just skip them. This is as far as my investment takes me: I have the will to skip them.
I like the hometown baghdad series but, with no other context/content, they simply don't play as well as they used to... when we get nothing but this series, it starts to feel like a cheat. I've now seen enough of these to be convinced that this would make a compelling long-format doc that explores the day to day lives of these guys. So it is starting to feel like I'm screening rough assemblies of footage... They are beginning to feel incomplete because they no longer emerge as tidbits and fragments amongst the other videos. VD is really doing this project a disservice by not offering Other new content and allowing these little gems to breathe.
Bill Maher: eh? I'm indifferent but you really don't even choose his best material.
And this basically sums up my opinion of your current product... because there is nothing else on here to respond to anymore.
Also, it is amazing to think that the Porsche demographic includes BOTH Rabbit Bites AND Bill Maher fans. Go Porsche!
Remember the Craig Ferguson monologues? The rubber balls in San Francisco? The political clips (there's an election next year, by the way)?
Any chance you will stop ignoring these letters (or lurking) and comment on the obvious format shift?
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no context
[Read the article: "Liberation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Without other meaningful content on the VD site, these videos tend to crash and burn. I don't think this video is any better or worse than the other fragments from this series (though the titling/editing tricks don't help here)... but the lack of other videos sort of defeat the purpose of this series if you ask me.
As for Xrandadu:
Wow, you seem to suggest that ordinary people can't be responsible for their own liberation (they aren't history professors? this just seems to be the tip of your elitist iceberg). Remember, Lech Welesa was an electrician... or don't you have a comprehensive understanding of political theory... or something?
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Video Dog format change?
[Read the article: Goodbye to the Fix, for now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Care to comment on how it appears Video Dog will eventually suffer the same vague slow death?
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Xrandadu
[Read the article: "Liberation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Raising Arizona is the reference, you got it! Just another empty pop-cultural reference to keep my empty metaphors company.
I so appreciate your ability to define my terms for me and teach us all the value of hyperbole.
Perhaps the lack of examples and quotation here will immediately discount what I have to say but the general tone of your letters are kind of bullying (at least by my definition of the word). You also like the 'us vs. them' frame very much. And you bring up higher education alot. It makes for an entertaining Letters section but not one in which I feel you are actually trying to communicate.
AS FOR THE VIDEOS - I only have this to add
1. I appreciated that I finally felt I was hearing about what they believed in and not just what they did everyday (though that never bothered me when there was other content around)
2. The absence of female voices was not a problem for me at first because I got the impression that we would eventually see other voices besides these three. Is that not the case? Does the series only follow these three guys?
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lazy f-ing "journalist"
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Project Runway"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think it is telling that the only comment here from the author of this article is concerned with having a funny enough title.
Wow, what else to say about this pointless cover story? As journalism, it was incompetent... though I doubt this was the aim.
As a bloggish snark-fest, it was simply lazy. The whole thing read like a verbatim transcript of the notes the reporter took while watching the event unfold. Scattered, impressionistic, shallow.
If some of the candidates are getting less attention, do I really need your aloof commentary on this trend. Why don't you help your audiences out by ignoring all this debate/primary theater and giving us information.
I read Salon a lot around the 2000 and 2004 elections. It was a wonderful source for under-reported political stories and indepth, nuanced profiles of candidates.
This is just some writer spinning his wheels and not bothering to be curious enough.
no more for me. bye bye.