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Post number 9014

barkingmoose — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:40:07 -0800

Have James Hattori and CNN found the next "Gorgeous Guy"? I didn't see the story, but I'm guessing this nationally-televised appearance by our favorite celebrity earlier today was a precursor to a piece on tomorrow's edition of CNNdotCOM which will be presented as a sort of conditional mea culpa — because, hey, even the savviest among us can fall victim to "internet hoaxes". Better tune in.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:06:32 -0800

Let me just say it before anyone sees it and knows the truth: I'm the biggest dork ever. keep it in mind when you see me on tomorrow.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:07:38 -0800

Oh, there's a caption contest going on for that screenshot I took of the TV.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:14:05 -0800

Captions or photoshop work. Your choice... :-)

By: lia

lia — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 22:07:18 -0800

First time I looked at that screenshot, I thought mathowie was Artie, the Strongest Man in the World for a few seconds. In my defense, I've just woken up.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 01:55:59 -0800

Thanks Lia. Scroll down or search for Jay [07/14/2001 01:48am]

By: lia

lia — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 02:07:55 -0800

I just saw the piece on CNNdotCOM!

"liars on the web" closed the show and was, to me, the show's way of covering its ass regarding the "Gorgeous Guy" fiasco.

What I found really interesting was that the writers apparently learned nothing about fact-checking from last week, because MeFi was described as the place where Kaycee shared her story, bla bla bla. Eh?

Oh, and mathowie really does look like Artie.

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:31:59 -0800

I just saw this on CNN, and I thought Matt came off well, but good god, did they misrepresent MetaFilter totally.

By: tamim

tamim — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:36:54 -0800

Matt's my new hero. I salute you, my comrade in nose scratching. I thought I was the only one who ever scratched their nose in public.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:18:44 -0800

They were in my apartment filming for 20-30 minutes, and all that showed up were <30 seconds of my dorky laughter and nervous nose scratching. Oh well, it was fun and James Harttori was nice.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:52:42 -0800

Any webcast? Did you tape it, Matt? I missed it...

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:10:12 -0800

A photo from the interview day.

By: gyc

gyc — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:47:10 -0800

It should be on again tomorrow 4:30 EST according to their website.