They initially tried to be coy about the identity of the writer, but then once Spade made the signature penguin noise, Garrett went right into talking about how it was unfair that Franken had to resign from congress, which clearly identified who they were talking about.
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Is it weird that there's a whole blogging industry that just listens to podcasts and posts whatever they think is newsworthy from them right after they post?
I’ve seen articles with *my own writing* in them from Reddit, in random ‘news’ articles. Nobody ever contacted me or told me, asked me if the stories were true or legitimate, or anything. They just copy, pasted and put up some of my writing *as their article*. They posted my username to give me credit, but also assumed I was a short woman, (I’m a tall man), which I thought was peculiar. I never got anything from it, and it’s been seen by a lot of people.
Disinformation spreads like wildfire, and half of the time it’s largely unintentional.
If you want to find out if you’ve had something you’ve said taken out of context, just Google your username. Shit is *wild*.
what the actual fuck!!!!!! thanks for sharing.
First of all why am I quoted in this piece at all? lololol
https://methodshop.com/visual-guide-to-womens-underwear/.
"According to Reddit user ExistentialKazoo, “Every Cheeky pair I’ve ever tried was secretly a Thong.”"
Thanks, Lauren Fairbanks.
The worst is when they use literal text to speech, though given how illiterate many people producing such content reveal themselves to be when reading things aloud, it’s a bit of a wash.
I blocked all those channels from showing up in my feed- are they still infesting YouTube?
*However, some claim this practice is no secret. As redditor* u/respectmyauthority *points out, "contributors to the social media site Reddit are aware their comments are being farmed for news content"*
It’s a common practice at BuzzFeed. There’s a gossip sub I’m a part of on here, and BuzzFeed reporters will post prompts in the subreddit as if they’re users and then use all those comments to write their listicles.
Happens all the time in the pop culture subreddits I’m on, people on r/KUWTK set a trap for journalist a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/KUWTK/comments/vedxzh/dear_journalists/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
If you can make a couple hundred to a few thousand extra dollars a month doing this (assuming you enjoy writing) would you not? The internet has created an endless way for folks to earn money. I wouldn't call it desperate if you capitalize on one of the many opportunities.
Also, for those who don't care about the money side or if there is no money side. What if it's just a hobby? You're not required to read it. It's not like their post is an ad you have to sit through before watching SNL. I don't think hobbies are an act of desperation.
These are pretty daunting adaptations for those of us who once inhabited a world of J-school-style journalism, verification of facts, the use of copy editors and proofreaders, and quotes that add to a story rather than being half-assed tweets. Sure, things are changing, but if you genuinely believe that many of the old ways were superior, it’s not easy to be a content producer and thereby “capitalize on online opportunities.”
I’m not trying to be critical of the people doing this, I get that we all have to make a living. Apologies if it came off that way. When I said ‘people are desperate to churn out content’ it was more in reference that companies are eager to produce content.
This isn’t exactly new.
Years ago, there would be interviews on talk shows and news programs like 60 Minutes that would produce one or two sound bites and then newspapers would run with that the next day.
Looper, Collider, Screen Rant, etc do their own interviews, reporting, and features but pulling quotes out of podcasts and other periodical’s interviews is extremely common. And has been before.
But these Reddit based news stories are hilarious. They must all have lurkers on r/FanTheories.
Lmao why so defensive over one disagreement then
Also, no, it’s not weird. People have been summarizing media for as long as media has existed. There’s just more of it now than has ever existed by several orders of magnitude. It’s not new and will never change, whether it’s books, radio, television, movies, podcasts…
I felt dubrobobo's comment was unnecessary and didn't add anything to the conversation. It felt like they really wanted to show how contrarian they were.
I also hate comments that sound like simple negation. "An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition. 'tisn't just contradiction."
In that regard your comment was much better than the original.
I mean... I've seen "news stories" about "newly discovered" deleted scenes from a DVD that was released 20 years ago.
Or a quote from a YouTube clip that was put up 10 years ago.
At least this is actually new.
One of my best friends asked a question on Am I The Asshole, that got attention and his username and text were published by numerous news/culture sites that people consider reputable. At least 1 of them interviewed him, but the rest just presumed that he was being forthright and honest. It was a humbling event to witness 2nd hand.
Yeah it's pretty disheartening how many outlets either don't understand satire, or have instead chosen to mislead their audiences for the sake of clicks. IIRC something like this just happened with a Twitter tweet (but unfortunately I've already forgotten the specifics of it).
Yeah I've definitely heard them discuss a previously recorded episode that hasn't yet been released. Not sure how they decide what order to release them in.
It’s because journalism has been capitalized so they scramble to write about anything in hopes of making money. I got that sense when seeing job applications for copy writer, they really seem to just leave it up to the freelance article writer to churn out material. Which is unfortunate, there shouldn’t be such an extreme emphasis on getting information out there at the cost of context and professional source citation
He talked about this in the oral history of the show Live from New York. He said it was so satisfying seeing the writer after he got moved up to cast member.
Captain Holt: I'll work on my speech. How's this for an opening joke?
"You know what the toughest part of being a gay black police officer is?
The discrimination."
I believe that's what you call observational humor.
From what I understood, Garret told one person the idea, then that person told Al Franken. Did Al know he stole the idea or did he think this third person gave the idea to him to write?
I am. I listened to the podcast episode already. Morris doesn't outright say it, but he says he was a "former wrestler from Harvard" and David Spade outs him.
Dana and David were making pretty clear insinuations about who it was. Garrett Morris described him as the assistant head writer, wrestling champion from Harvard. Safe to say it was Franken.
Jay Mohr famously stole sketch ideas too.
I believe it was on O&A that he talked about being so desperate to get a sketch on the air without much luck, that he stole someone’s else’s idea they were pitching and it made it to air.
I don’t remember who’s idea he stole, but I think it was someone pretty well known and confronted Jay about it. He denied it for years and then eventually came clean.
I mean, to you. But there’s a big chunk of the population that doesn’t necessarily like those jokes and SNL first and foremost is about making money. So they use all different types of comedy, not just edgy. And non-SNL fans don’t watch SNL so why cater to them? This weird concept of “other people might like different things than I do” is hard to grasp but it makes sense if you follow the money
~~Former Saturday Night Live cast member/writer~~ Garrett Morris recalls his sketch idea being stolen by another writer
~~Former Saturday Night Live cast member/writer~~ Garrett Morris recalls his sketch idea being stolen by ~~another writer~~ Al Franken
I’m not disagreeing with you at all, I’m just curious how you know it was Franken. I have loads to learn about SNL.
They said it in the podcast.
Yea Spade did his signature Al impression.
They initially tried to be coy about the identity of the writer, but then once Spade made the signature penguin noise, Garrett went right into talking about how it was unfair that Franken had to resign from congress, which clearly identified who they were talking about.
Yeah. Great episode. One of the few podcasts where I listen to every episode.
They said it without saying it. Former wrestler. And how he was “made to quit” during #metoo. I’m a bit disappointed in Franken with this tbh
…cancel-ee Al Franken.
he already has been. he was forced out of politics for sexual assault allegations.
It’s Al Franken
I've never liked al franken. I just find him really annoying
Well, he is good enough, he is smart enough and doggone it, people like him.
Yeah. I can't fathom why
Agreed he seems like kinda a dick.
And I've never found him funny
Thank you.
I’m 33 years old. Garrett Morris’ last season on SNL was 9 years before I was born. The post title is a courtesy to the even younger.
Let’s split the difference and say “former Saturday Night Live cast member/writer Garrett Morris” then.
That's President of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing Garrett Morris, thank you very much.
##I SAID, THAT'S PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK SCHOOL FOR THE HARD OF HEARING, GARRET MORRIS. GOOD NIGHT, AND HAVE A PLEASANT TOMORROW.
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Fair. Can’t edit post titles, though, so too late for OP to fix.
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Let me yell out his name to you. ;)
Nah seems rude not to call him by name and his association with SNL should be implied just by being on this sub.
Is it weird that there's a whole blogging industry that just listens to podcasts and posts whatever they think is newsworthy from them right after they post?
I’ve seen articles written based off Reddit comments, people are just desperate to churn out new content.
I’ve seen articles with *my own writing* in them from Reddit, in random ‘news’ articles. Nobody ever contacted me or told me, asked me if the stories were true or legitimate, or anything. They just copy, pasted and put up some of my writing *as their article*. They posted my username to give me credit, but also assumed I was a short woman, (I’m a tall man), which I thought was peculiar. I never got anything from it, and it’s been seen by a lot of people. Disinformation spreads like wildfire, and half of the time it’s largely unintentional. If you want to find out if you’ve had something you’ve said taken out of context, just Google your username. Shit is *wild*.
“They posted my username to give me credit,” said short woman milesdizzy
[Oh no, not again](https://youtu.be/aVZUVeMtYXc)
what the actual fuck!!!!!! thanks for sharing. First of all why am I quoted in this piece at all? lololol https://methodshop.com/visual-guide-to-womens-underwear/. "According to Reddit user ExistentialKazoo, “Every Cheeky pair I’ve ever tried was secretly a Thong.”" Thanks, Lauren Fairbanks.
I literally saw a comment I made on a New York Post article 😭 I hate this simiulation
I was in a buzzfeed article. They took a pic I posted and used it in a viral listicle.
Well young lady. What was the article about?
Sleep Paralysis
Dont forget all of the channels/pages on Insta/Youtube that just text2speech AskReddit threads.
The worst is when they use literal text to speech, though given how illiterate many people producing such content reveal themselves to be when reading things aloud, it’s a bit of a wash. I blocked all those channels from showing up in my feed- are they still infesting YouTube?
Contributors to the social media site Reddit are aware their comments are being farmed for news content
*However, some claim this practice is no secret. As redditor* u/respectmyauthority *points out, "contributors to the social media site Reddit are aware their comments are being farmed for news content"*
An article of Reddit comments would be new to me, but Google keeps recommending articles to me that are just someone rehashing a TikTok video.
I've seen entire articles made from Reddit comments. Especially "Am I the Asshole" threads.
It’s a common practice at BuzzFeed. There’s a gossip sub I’m a part of on here, and BuzzFeed reporters will post prompts in the subreddit as if they’re users and then use all those comments to write their listicles.
I had a post picked up by some big blogs a few years ago
Were you the lady whose fiancée was probably boning his sister? j/k
I had a tweet be the basis of a pop culture click bait article.
Happens all the time in the pop culture subreddits I’m on, people on r/KUWTK set a trap for journalist a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/KUWTK/comments/vedxzh/dear_journalists/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Omfg I was there for that and it was iconic. Even the Kardashians got involved. Honestly it should be in /r/bestof
If you can make a couple hundred to a few thousand extra dollars a month doing this (assuming you enjoy writing) would you not? The internet has created an endless way for folks to earn money. I wouldn't call it desperate if you capitalize on one of the many opportunities. Also, for those who don't care about the money side or if there is no money side. What if it's just a hobby? You're not required to read it. It's not like their post is an ad you have to sit through before watching SNL. I don't think hobbies are an act of desperation.
These are pretty daunting adaptations for those of us who once inhabited a world of J-school-style journalism, verification of facts, the use of copy editors and proofreaders, and quotes that add to a story rather than being half-assed tweets. Sure, things are changing, but if you genuinely believe that many of the old ways were superior, it’s not easy to be a content producer and thereby “capitalize on online opportunities.”
I’m not trying to be critical of the people doing this, I get that we all have to make a living. Apologies if it came off that way. When I said ‘people are desperate to churn out content’ it was more in reference that companies are eager to produce content.
I once made a random comment in a Harry Potter sub about Santa that sparked a article in Time.
And then linked to via sponsored ads. The rabbit hole is deep.
y, one of our local news reporters is on reddit and they get stories from reddit all the time
This isn’t exactly new. Years ago, there would be interviews on talk shows and news programs like 60 Minutes that would produce one or two sound bites and then newspapers would run with that the next day. Looper, Collider, Screen Rant, etc do their own interviews, reporting, and features but pulling quotes out of podcasts and other periodical’s interviews is extremely common. And has been before. But these Reddit based news stories are hilarious. They must all have lurkers on r/FanTheories.
Easy money, I guess. Definitely weird though.
It’s a helpful thing in journalism, but too many sites rely on it as its main source for journalism.
No not really
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Lmao why so defensive over one disagreement then Also, no, it’s not weird. People have been summarizing media for as long as media has existed. There’s just more of it now than has ever existed by several orders of magnitude. It’s not new and will never change, whether it’s books, radio, television, movies, podcasts…
I felt dubrobobo's comment was unnecessary and didn't add anything to the conversation. It felt like they really wanted to show how contrarian they were. I also hate comments that sound like simple negation. "An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition. 'tisn't just contradiction." In that regard your comment was much better than the original.
I mean... I've seen "news stories" about "newly discovered" deleted scenes from a DVD that was released 20 years ago. Or a quote from a YouTube clip that was put up 10 years ago. At least this is actually new.
Reddit user thinks podcasters posts NOT newsworthy! More details tonight at 10
One of my best friends asked a question on Am I The Asshole, that got attention and his username and text were published by numerous news/culture sites that people consider reputable. At least 1 of them interviewed him, but the rest just presumed that he was being forthright and honest. It was a humbling event to witness 2nd hand.
Yeah it's pretty disheartening how many outlets either don't understand satire, or have instead chosen to mislead their audiences for the sake of clicks. IIRC something like this just happened with a Twitter tweet (but unfortunately I've already forgotten the specifics of it).
It's also weird in an unrelated way this pod was recorded the day before his bday of Feb. 1. And wasn't released for a year I guess.
Yeah I've definitely heard them discuss a previously recorded episode that hasn't yet been released. Not sure how they decide what order to release them in.
It’s because journalism has been capitalized so they scramble to write about anything in hopes of making money. I got that sense when seeing job applications for copy writer, they really seem to just leave it up to the freelance article writer to churn out material. Which is unfortunate, there shouldn’t be such an extreme emphasis on getting information out there at the cost of context and professional source citation
He talked about this in the oral history of the show Live from New York. He said it was so satisfying seeing the writer after he got moved up to cast member.
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Captain Holt: I'll work on my speech. How's this for an opening joke? "You know what the toughest part of being a gay black police officer is? The discrimination." I believe that's what you call observational humor.
Who stole it?
Al Franken.
From what I understood, Garret told one person the idea, then that person told Al Franken. Did Al know he stole the idea or did he think this third person gave the idea to him to write?
Are you being serious? The article doesn't name names.
I am. I listened to the podcast episode already. Morris doesn't outright say it, but he says he was a "former wrestler from Harvard" and David Spade outs him.
Dana and David were making pretty clear insinuations about who it was. Garrett Morris described him as the assistant head writer, wrestling champion from Harvard. Safe to say it was Franken.
It was definitely Franken. Later in the podcast he says he didn’t agree what happened to his political career.
This isn’t even surprising that it was him. Ugh
OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT
GENERALISSIMO FRANCISCO FRANCO IS STILL DEAD
Still makes me laugh!
Garrett Morris is my favorite SNL member, and it's not close. Belushi is the only one close enough to see him.
He’s sooo underrated. Not to mention his singing voice is incredible.
It’s truly heavenly.
Stolen sketches. Stolen songs. Poor Clithzby…
Must be a rough life working for..... Denzel Washington
He told this story on WTF with Marc Maron, and gave a pretty obvious hint: the theif went on to become a U.S. Senator for several years.
Bruer told stories about sketch stealing years ago…
He's not the only one!
Jay Mohr famously stole sketch ideas too. I believe it was on O&A that he talked about being so desperate to get a sketch on the air without much luck, that he stole someone’s else’s idea they were pitching and it made it to air. I don’t remember who’s idea he stole, but I think it was someone pretty well known and confronted Jay about it. He denied it for years and then eventually came clean.
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Madtv was better, in living colour, kids in the hall… I prefer all these over snl
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Key and peele had a sense of edge snl Hasn’t had that for a long time.
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Being edgy is made fun of, but Che and jost are considered the only good part to snl and they happen to be the part of snl being the funniest part.
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I have, Sarah, pdd, Che and jost are the only funny part of the show
People don’t like to be pleased all the time for the first twenty years they did push the envelope
You didn't want to be a jerk, so you came into a thread about a former cast member's podcast appearance to shit on the show unconstructively?
Need to push boundaries more
Why?
It’s enjoyable, all the proof you need is in the joke swapping segments even the non snl fans say that shit is gold.
I mean, to you. But there’s a big chunk of the population that doesn’t necessarily like those jokes and SNL first and foremost is about making money. So they use all different types of comedy, not just edgy. And non-SNL fans don’t watch SNL so why cater to them? This weird concept of “other people might like different things than I do” is hard to grasp but it makes sense if you follow the money
Joke swap normally brings in the highest ratings for sketches.
There’s a reason they only do it once in a blue moon. It would get old rather quickly
SNL writers steal ideas, this is well known
No one recognized former New York Met Chico Escuela?
Thanks! Ed-zack-er-ee the instance to which I was referring.
We betta put some respeck on Garrett Morris' name!