Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/15/87)
Really-From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu The Billboard Magazine story about a Berkeley consumer who got hold of the A Hard Day's Night CD inside his copy of The Whole Story was turned into a segment in "Nina Blackwood"'s "Rock News Report" on "Entertainment Tonight" yesterday evening. The covers of both CDs were shown. But La "Blackwood" gussied up the story a bit by describing Kate Bush as "a lyrical, soft-rock singer", as opposed to the "hard-rocking Beatles album," implying that wimpy Kate Bush would ordinarily be the last musician on earth to be appreciated by tough, macho Beatles fans! Obviously she has never heard "The Big Sky" or "Hounds of Love", both of which use five times as many drums and a hell of a lot more aggression than anything on A Hard Day's Night. The "Blackwood" person also distorted the facts a bit by concluding that "hundreds" of Beatles fans had been buying The Whole Story CD since hearing of the incident; in fact, no one really knows if that has actually been happening. And it's quite unlikely, since any serious fan could see that in order to determine whether a given Whole Story CD box contained A Hard Day's Night, you'd have to open the package, thus making it impossible for a potential trader to determine after the fact whether or not the CD originally came in the package or was inserted later; and especially since the Hard Day's Night CD will become available in two weeks anyway. It was interesting to see how TV news alters the facts to make for a "better story". -- Andrew Marvick
Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/15/87)
Really-From: dap@cgl.ucsf.edu (David Pearlman) In article <8702142335.AA17850@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> you write: >Really-From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu > >The Billboard Magazine story about a Berkeley >consumer who got hold of the A Hard Day's Night >CD inside his copy of The Whole Story was >turned into a segment in "Nina Blackwood"'s >"Rock News Report" on "Entertainment Tonight" yesterday evening. [deleted report of how Nina Woodbrain altered the facts] >It was interesting to see how TV news alters the facts >to make for a "better story". Although I'm certainly aware of how the mass media alters and/or misinterprets facts to make a "great" story (An article I published in Science magazine was described in the San Francisco Chronicle in a way that made it sound like I'd soon be on my way to Stockholm to get my prize...) you shouldn't be at all suprised at the quality of a Nina Woodbrain report. Recall that Braindead was without question the poorest of the original Empty-V VJ's. And that, I think, is a meaningful distinction. Actually, however, it's pretty unlikely that Blahwood wrote her own copy. I'm even suprised she was able to re... say, did you notice if perhaps they had dubbed in someone else's voice for Slackdud? Naw, couldn't be...But what if??? Her pictures in Playboy weren't anything to write home about, either... -- David A. (DAP) Pearlman "And all this science I don't understand It's just my job five days a week" -- B. Taupin