Brianna Wu - A primer for journalists - Helping to hold politicians accountable, at least if they're also lolcows.

[Dimethyl Ketone]

I agree with the above sentiment that, thus far, journalists don't care about Wu's hypocracy.
Now that she's actually ending up on the ballet, the game may change though.

If we have hopes for her lies finally being prodded and spread by the media, then the message needs to make "a story." The reason they don't focus or even investigate deeply (or they do and ignore it) is because their "story" isn't about Brianna Wu, as much as she thinks it is. The story is always along the lines of "women harrassment in gaming" or they want a "female perspective on tech" and she's what is available, even though neither female nor in tech -- it's the best they could find.

So try to think about it like this: what info can we give that makes a story, because face it, journalism is dead. It's just entertainment pieces and/or propaganda. If we want the attention and market/eyeballs that the news folks garner, we have to play by their rules. Simply "she lied HERE HERE and HERE" isn't going to do that. Finding something important to the readers is. I believe we have a fruitful avenue in her demonstratable exploitation of not just workers, but female workers.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I believe we have a fruitful avenue in her demonstratable exploitation of not just workers, but female workers.

You're not going to get anywhere with that unless one of the actual employees comes forward to tell her story.
People have in fact gotten in touch with ex-GSK employees, and none of them want to go on the record because they know exactly how vindictive Frank and John are.

 

[Dimethyl Ketone]

You're not going to get anywhere with that unless one of the actual employees comes forward to tell her story.
People have in fact gotten in touch with ex-GSK employees, and none of them want to go on the record because they know exactly how vindictive Frank and John are.

I dunno, we obviously disagree on this, but I think just the advertisements/contracts which list $1 ( I believe these are archived somewhere) is enough to run a story, even without GSK employee's testimony. It wouldn't be a lawsuit. Also, maybe if a newsperson contacted one of the former employees and offered anonimity the former slaves employees just might talk.

I personally think it's the most relevant to locals and thus most likely to lead to sales out of any of the issues we've come up with thusfar, but we shouldn't stop brainstorming or focus on just one avenue.

 

[DragoonSierra]

I dunno, we obviously disagree on this, but I think just the advertisements/contracts which list $1 ( I believe these are archived somewhere) is enough to run a story, even without GSK employee's testimony. It wouldn't be a lawsuit. Also, maybe if a newsperson contacted one of the former employees and offered anonimity the former slaves employees just might talk.

I personally think it's the most relevant to locals and thus most likely to lead to sales out of any of the issues we've come up with thusfar, but we shouldn't stop brainstorming or focus on just one avenue.

It would be enough for a tabloid website or local publication.

 

[Dimethyl Ketone]

It would be enough for a tabloid website or local publication.

Local news for a local election. I highly doubt if the folks that bring her on as a "woman in tech" for natinoal news (like CNN et al) are going to start resarch now... but maybe they will take a second gander if she's embarrased locally; gotta start there.

EDIT: Also, if you think national news has any higher levels of requirements for a story... look into "Gamergate" or how she's been brought on several times as the woman godzilla in tech

 

[DragoonSierra]

Local news for a local election. I highly doubt if the folks that bring her on as a "woman in tech" for natinoal news (like CNN et al) are going to start resarch now... but maybe they will take a second gander if she's embarrased locally; gotta start there.

EDIT: Also, if you think national news has any higher levels of requirements for a story... look into "Gamergate" or how she's been brought on several times as the woman godzilla in tech

CNN loves scandalous stuff but it has to be pretty egregious for them to report on left wing people.

MSM barely gave any time to Gamergate. They gave it a couple fluff pieces at most and Brianna barely got any time on anything remotely "national." Brianna cant get anything beyond being a propaganda puppet for RT. Im sure @Jaimas can count the number of MSM appearances our Gamergate cows got on both hands. The only two I can really think of are Brianna getting on CNN recently after Gamergate had long ended and Anita getting on the Colbert Report.

 

[Jaimas]

CNN loves scandalous stuff but it has to be pretty egregious for them to report on left wing people.

MSM barely gave any time to Gamergate. They gave it a couple fluff pieces at most and Brianna barely got any time on anything remotely "national." Brianna cant get anything beyond being a propaganda puppet for RT. Im sure @Jaimas can count the number of MSM appearances our Gamergate cows got on both hands. The only two I can really think of are Brianna getting on CNN recently after Gamergate had long ended and Anita getting on the Colbert Report.

Both hands? I'd need a few dozen more than that, because the usual suspects got constant media coverage, and that's not even counting shit like Quinn appearing before Congress or the United Nations.

But since we're focusing on Wu-Sama:

* Appeared on the Huffington post, debating Frederick Brennan. She lost handily to a crippled man in a wheelchair.
* Appeared on the David Pakman show. Was unable to answer basic questions.
* Has appeared fucking dozens of times on various mid-sized online publications.
* Has had dozens of speaking engagements including SXSW, GDC, and more, none of which she had any real business to be at.

Unlike a lot of the other usual suspects who got promoted because narrative, Wu got promoted because she knew people and she was the asshole who was willing to say or do anything to get in front of a camera.

 

[Norvic]

I've been a bit lazy on getting this done, but I've been doing a little bit more on it tonight... I need some Kiwi's help with tracking down some references though.

Specifically, I'm looking for the stories Wu has told about articles she wrote in her journalistic career. I finally tracked down this one about the insurance company which is the one I remember most vividly, and that took forever. Obviously most of this has been deleted from Wu's twitter at this point, so we just have kiwi farms archives to rely on.

If you remember any particular details about stories Wu has told, or better still have actual links to the page of the Wu thread where it's archived, please tell me, it'll make my life much easier.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

https://kiwifarms.is/threads/brianna-wu-john-flynt.16461/page-558#post-1438572

Here's some bullshit from like two fucking years ago lol

 

[ZKWNordman]

The one about visiting many prisons ... https://mobile.twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/982031426525843457

 

[Norvic]

Thanks, useful links.

 

[DragoonSierra]

Both hands? I'd need a few dozen more than that, because the usual suspects got constant media coverage, and that's not even counting shit like Quinn appearing before Congress or the United Nations.

But since we're focusing on Wu-Sama:

* Appeared on the Huffington post, debating Frederick Brennan. She lost handily to a crippled man in a wheelchair.
* Appeared on the David Pakman show. Was unable to answer basic questions.
* Has appeared fucking dozens of times on various mid-sized online publications.
* Has had dozens of speaking engagements including SXSW, GDC, and more, none of which she had any real business to be at.

Unlike a lot of the other usual suspects who got promoted because narrative, Wu got promoted because she knew people and she was the asshole who was willing to say or do anything to get in front of a camera.

I should have clarified. I meant something more than internet publications. Something with a TV or print presence. Like CNN, Fox, NY Times, WaPo. Even local stations or local papers. Something the normies in the world would have seen.

I say this because thats who we are targetting with this primer @Norvic is creating right? We want the normies to see it.

 

[AnOminous]

My favorite recent Wu lie is how he backed up his Porsche into a parking pole or other stationary object, then posted a wild tale about being rear-ended in an accident, even though the actual photo he posted showed he crashed into an obviously cylindrical object and was not hit by anything.

Brianna Walker Wu / John Walker Flynt General Thread

The picture:

As you can see, he throws in gratuitous details like the driver being 23 years old, completely irrelevant, but perhaps John thinks it gives the whole thing an air of verisimilitude.

Later, he absolutely forgets this lie, or trusts that his audience is so fucking stupid they forgot it, and admits he actually backed up into an object.

Brianna Walker Wu / John Walker Flynt General Thread

The pic from that, featuring the very same photo of a car that obviously backed up into a pole because its driver was an idiot who can't operate a car with a manual transmission.

 

[Kosher Dill]

The pic from that, featuring the very same photo of a car that obviously backed up into a pole because its driver was an idiot who can't operate a car with a manual transmission.

He's not admitting to it, he was replying to a story about someone wrapping their car around a telephone pole and saying "I, a Porsche owner, must make sure never to let that happen to the Porsche owned by me, because it would be even worse than the time I had to fix my Porsche."

 

[AnOminous]

He's not admitting to it, he was replying to a story about someone wrapping their car around a telephone pole and saying "I, a Porsche owner, must make sure never to let that happen to the Porsche owned by me, because it would be even worse than the time I had to fix my Porsche."

And somehow uses the exact image that any idiot can tell is from someone backing up into a pole of some sort. Not that this is the only time John has ever backed up into a pole.