June 14, 2001

10:12 AM

Screw a reporter, get a ticket to a soldout show with the Material Girl. That's what a German web site is offering to Madonna fans. Does this smack of base exploitation of fans or is this merely an off-kilter publicity stunt?
posted by ed (17 comments total)

My question is: are all the reporters cool with this? This probably shows some bias in my thinking, but I'm imagining the female reporter mentioned wouldn't be as keen as some of the male reports to get farmed out like that.
posted by Big Fat Tycoon at 10:19 AM on June 14, 2001

Actually it sounds like something that would be more or less par for the course for Madonna...
posted by DiplomaticImmunity at 10:23 AM on June 14, 2001

I'm shocked that they still have to put scare-quotes around "hits."
posted by kindall at 10:23 AM on June 14, 2001

in case you speak german: here is an article about that web site. i've never been bothered to figure out what they are doing, but it appears to be some kind of "subversive" prank yellow press thing. correct me if i'm wrong.
posted by arf at 10:43 AM on June 14, 2001

scare-quotes? those qualify as "scare-quotes", how? how do you define that term? - rcb
posted by rebeccablood at 10:44 AM on June 14, 2001

.... it's Madonna's fault, is it?

*cough*
posted by Sapphireblue at 10:51 AM on June 14, 2001

Scare quotes.
posted by straight at 11:02 AM on June 14, 2001

Woohoo!! One giant step for the third estate!!! (Most of us can't get laid any other way.. ~GRIN~)
posted by Perigee at 11:04 AM on June 14, 2001

I'd sit through a Madonna show to nail a reporter.
posted by dong_resin at 11:04 AM on June 14, 2001

Scare quotes: Well, why the "hell" not?

I suppose this whole wham-bam-thank-you-journalist approach is the inevitable progression from Naked News.
posted by ed at 11:18 AM on June 14, 2001

I'd gladly have sex with a record executive if they promised to make Madonna dissapear off the face of the Earth.

For some reason, she forgot to leave after her fifteen minutes should have been up.
posted by bondcliff at 11:20 AM on June 14, 2001

That's fourth estate Perigee. The rest of us, except the "A-list" of course, are the third.
posted by Octaviuz at 11:42 AM on June 14, 2001

Ummm..

Well...

DOH!
posted by Perigee at 12:04 PM on June 14, 2001

Damn, why didn't I get a hookup like this when I used to work for a media website? I've even got a german name...
posted by SpecialK at 12:22 PM on June 14, 2001

Damn, why didn't I get a hookup like this when I used to work for a media website?

If you work for a media website, you only get to have cybersex.

(another rim shot)

Damn, I'm on fire today.
posted by jpoulos at 12:30 PM on June 14, 2001

Does anybody know the etymology of "scare quotes"? I never understood that phrase. Am I supposed to be scared of the quotes? Do the quotes indicate the speaker is scared? What's so scary about quotes anyway?
posted by jjg at 7:24 PM on June 14, 2001

Just as a scarecrow is not actually a crow, so scarequotes are not actually quotes.

... No, I have no idea.
posted by kindall at 10:21 PM on June 14, 2001