The Digital Hobo

So ridiculous. Maybe it showed bad judgment, but in this day and age of “scoop or be scooped,” I’m baffled at the firing of Fox News columnist Roger Friedman.

The friggin’ movie is available online. Sure its incomplete and lacking some special effects, but it seems that the punishment doesn’t quite fit the crime here. Glad that its OK for bloggers (for now) to point out what is floating around in cyberspace, even if the mainstream media can’t. Apparently you can only write about the fact that the movie has been stolen and is actively being distributed, but you can’t comment on whether the movie is any good.

Hell, I wrote about how many bad versions of Star Wars had been leaked. Took me at least 5-6 tries before I found a copy without a timecode, with proper Dolby Digital 5.1 and accurate color balance. Too bad the movie still sucked.

Congrats, Roger. You’ll have a job at a real media outlet soon enough. Like this one. And at least the movie was good.

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