Newsroom - ACNgage

it's a map that tells you where celebrities have been sighted in New York or Los Angeles and soon we'll be expanding to Vegas and South Beach anytime you want you can scroll around and see you know Jude Law was shopping for condoms at Duane Reade on 57th so people are out there and they can post a message to us and say Kristen Bell and her kid are at the 4:00 p.m. showing of How to Train Your Dragon at the ArcLight and it goes right on our map instantly so that when Kristen Bell and her kid come out of the movies there are a dozen sociopaths waiting for them I don't think that's likely why not well yeah it's the price of fame isn't it no it's not it's a punishment for it celebrities have been stalked and celebrities have been murdered what this app is best at is assisting in that right I'm sorry you feel that way ac engages citizen journalism can you talk about the vetting process these citizen journalism undergoes the vetting people can post more than locations they can post observations that's right I'm asking if those posts are fact-checked well this is one specific element of this presence in a post today a citizen journalist tells us that Jimmy Kimmel was visibly intoxicated last night at the Soho House in West Hollywood that's right Jimmy Kimmel was with his family in Cabo San Lucas last night oh no people don't read this with the expectation of it being true everyone who's here everyone people don't have an expectation that what they're reading is true they read it for the immediacy but you're using the word journalism which means there is an expectation that what they're reading is true but let me take it a step further let's pretend it was true that Jimmy Kimmel was intoxicated last night at the Soho House in West Hollywood it's not true but we don't care so let's pretend that is since that's what we're doing anyway why does that belong on our website leave her on as long as she wants honestly I think there's a shifting definition of what's public and private space there is and we should care about that but my question is why should we care about a talk-show host drinking at a bar don't you think it's great that we're not putting people up on a pedestal and worshipping them anymore I don't think celebrities are one of the bigger problems facing us but aren't we the ones building the pedestal you've got a map that gives us their location the ideas that we're acknowledging that the real people I wonder how many of us didn't already know that but you're doing more than acknowledging they're real people you're beating them up for it aren't they protected by the piles of money they're surrounded by okay what's the line of demarcation you make over X dollars a year and now you get to be treated by us as a regular and who's basically had an electronic bracelet slapped on their ankle what does X equal it would be silly to name an exact dollar amount you're paid $55,000 a year well that's private sorry that's almost twice the national average for a family of four do your piles of cash protecting you from this interview in which I'm intentionally stripping you of your dignity and by the way I've managed to do it without lying once so I'm going to give you another chance to answer my question before I answer it myself what's the value of an unsourced on bed story about a grown man drinking at a bar I can't give you all the time in the world it's entertainment my concern isn't for the celebrities even though as sure as we're sittin here someone's gonna get hurt my concerns for the rest of us who you're turning into a wild pack of prideless punks

Channel: Ashley Lynch

Views: 593,507

Rating: 4.8886018 out of 5

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Id: Em_KXNNYKjo

Length: 3min 1sec (181 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 30 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/M3rc_Nate]

I'm still waiting to see Olivia Munn flex her acting muscles like she did in this series. Nothing that I've seen her in before this or after this has been quality acting IMO.

[u/SayWoot]

The clip is a recreation of the 2007 fight between Jimmy Kimmel and Gawker over the then new Gawker Stalker site.