Example of Internet Trolling on The Newsroom

sorry what do you need well as a story I'd like to fine this is Neal Sampat Neal writes wills blog will doesn't write wills blog I can't find wills blog Neal wants to be a producer so from time to time he pitches stories what you got I want to troll is right tiny creature that stands under a footbridge and makes you answer a riddle before you're allowed to pause they're not real man I know that he means the other kind of troll you don't got the first clue what he means I mean the other kind of troll little faculity sorry internet trolls it's a play on a fishing term people who go to message boards and tries to hijack the conversation by being incendiary what about them turns out they have their own websites like an online Clubhouse and to be accepted to the group you have to be able to point to a successful incident of trolling a recent time when you made a whole bunch of posters lose their minds or better yet got the site monitor to shut down the board actually I like it and it's not about Bigfoot friend Stan Newsnight he's gonna break the story on pixel we know don't write that down well they talk to you they won't talk to a reporter but I thought maybe I try to get in there undercover aren't you gonna have to say you troll something I'm not gonna have to say it I'm gonna actually have to do it tell her well I don't want a ding on an innocent person for a story so I'm gonna have to do it to one of us you have to be anonymous on our website no I mean do it's worse on another website what would it be I don't know you come back when you know that you've made it past the first hurdle thank you slight house remote in there hey it's not good but let me ask you something for the sake of the story how would you feel about me going on the internet and saying vicious things about you that might get an argument start about misogyny what kind of vicious things I don't know what would the general area be I really don't know I'm something about the way you look like what I'd be making it up what would you be making it wouldn't be true would be something like um something along the lines of she screwed away to the top then she's got a big-ass Donny would have to you listen to me Sam Pat do I okay I can do it you cannot if you want you can say that I made to the final round of Decatur six regionals and these Scripps Howard spelling bee that's not a lot of guys like women with big people do they really never mind I don't know you're talking about and I have my own problems how's gone Sam Pat well problem with people who posts on economy brain is they're not easily distracted yam those economists and their adult attention span they don't make it easy for me but a popular discussion at the moment is a recent article projecting US credit rating fallout as a result of the debt ceiling standoff yes I heard that on the news no wait I didn't I heard about Casey Anthony instead well that's right Johnson I said if I can balance my checkbook why can't the government balance its budget Mary Mother of God am i sick of that insane analogy balancing your checkbook is to balancing the budget as driving the supermarket it's a landing on the moon see ah I got you a little upset yeah so once they were hooked on telling me how stupid I am I steered things in your direction how you really wanna know good tell me anyway I said the media and government are in a conspiracy cahoots my favorite secret hurts I have to sound authentically moronic how are the media and the government in a conspiracy cahoots by shoving your breasts in our face many angry posters came to defense Hey so I created a second user account buyer and asserted it wasn't your breasts that was so compelling it was your blatantly body movements whatever do you use the most of a link on your Wikipedia page D setting arise from small-town strip it's a big-time financial news reporter my Wikipedia page doesn't say that check again you're going to see an emotional response on my face and a physical response directed at yours it was after two hours I had economic PhDs posting in all caps and then the site administrator froze the thread alright and this is enough to get you accepted into the fraternity of the pitiful almost there's a sort of pledge process for the fraternity of the pitiful and this will get me to level one once I do that I can get to level two in swimming the professional trolls you're gonna be good reporter and I like that someone's working on news stories well for what it's worth I could really get behind the government I was in a cahoots conspiracy to shove you breasts in our face mmm read my Wikipedia page see this magic tomorrow

Channel: Steve Stockdale

Views: 121,851

Rating: 4.6923075 out of 5

Keywords: trolling

Id: 0Olto0KTIC8

Length: 5min 27sec (327 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 03 2013