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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+78I thought the moral of the story was "if you get a depression and become unable to do your job so you get fired, blame someone else."
- blankfaze, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61The local news director didn't lose her job "because of Borat". She lost her job because she was too lazy/incompetent/unprofessional to do 30 seconds of research. She lost her job because she couldn't manage to Google "Borat" before clearing him to be on the programme.
- 501337, on 10/12/2007, -13/+50Lots of people get fired every day. I should care about this one because it Borat was involved?
- TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Correction, 5 stars on average. Hell, Movies.com gave it an A.
- jonathantneal, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35Exactly!
"my boss lost faith in my abilities and second-guessed everything I did thereafter. I spiraled into depression, and before I could recover I was released from my contract early" - that's her own writing.
She WAS NOT fired for having Borat on the morning show - the title is a bit misleading. At the very worst, she can claim that 'Borat' brought her some grief - grief which she apparently claims she was never able to recover from - grief which SPIRALED her into depression.
In all honesty, if it wasn't Borat, something else would have gotten her fired, the woman is probably unstable. - supermanred, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34Yes, she didnt google borat so therefore she is an idiot!.... mind you, borat did interview some bigwig CIA guy who also didnt do his homework lol...
High five!! - kingace, on 10/12/2007, -12/+39You probably haven't even seen it yet.
- gumby05, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26I have a fake vietnam veteran blog, and a few weeks ago some college girl found the myspace page i made for it. She wanted to ask me some questions for a paper she has to do. I answered them. I'm waiting to see how her paper goes. Should be pretty good. hahaha. the moral of that story is dont do research on myspace
- Shorties, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17She should of just blamed it on being an alcoholic and put herself in a clinic for 6 weeks, that's what all the cool kids are doing.
- thetango, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I read this woman's letter in Newsweek last week. Here is the letter in it's entirety:
Blindsided By Borat
I am one of Sacha Baron Cohen's many victims ("Behind the Schemes," Oct. 16). Because his handlers told me he was Borat Sagdiyev, "A TV journalist from Kazakhstan," I booked him for a live studio interview on our morning new show in Jackson, Miss., thinking he was a legitimate reporter doing a documentary to be shown in his home country. I checked out his public-relations company's Web site and even met one of the publicists in person. The seems genuine. But once the camera was on him, this man destroyed our credibility in very short order. Because of him, my boss lost faith in my abilities and second-guessed everything I did thereafter. I spiraled into depression, and before I could recover I was released from my contract early. It took me three months to find another job and now I'm thousands of dollars in debt and struggling to keep my house out of foreclosure. How upsetting that a man who leaves so much harm in his path is lauded as a comedic genius. Think of all the other people who've probably been fired because of his antics.
D. A. Arthur
Panama City, FLA.
blankfaze:
>The local news director didn't lose her job "because of Borat". She lost her job because she was too lazy/incompetent/unprofessional to do 30 seconds of research. She lost her job because she couldn't manage to Google "Borat" before clearing him to be on the programme.
No, it seems like she did take the time to do research, even going as far to meet with a publicist.
supermanred:
>Yes, she didnt google borat so therefore she is an idiot!.... mind you, borat did interview some bigwig CIA guy who also didnt do his homework lol...
Good point. IMO, before you have anyone on TV these days the minimum you should do is google the person's name. We do that when we're hiring/interviewing someone so how could you not do that before putting them on TV?
xtr3m:
>Well, the Borat team probably submitted a different name so Google wouldn't really help.
No. They submitted his real name AFAICT.
Calyposoaf:
>or at least offered a second shot somewhere.
Looks like she landed on her feet (or almost). I guess a joke is joke, but no one should lose their house over this. - Salviati, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18I really don't see why ABC should have fired her over this, though. The crew seemed to be having a good time during the whole situation, and it didn't seem to put the station in a bad light. They have probably come out ahead now because of all the recent attention. She should have been scolded or repremanded perhaps, but firing her was over the top.
- appetite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14MrSpaceman, Niko, and Xell should each get Digg trump cards from now on so that they can unilaterally bury anything that the rest of the Digg community is interested in. God forbid they have to do something crazy like not clicking on the article if they don't care what it's about....
Also, please educate us as to what 'funny' is while you tell us what we should and shouldn't be interested in. Thanks! - mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14That's ridiculous.
She should have taken the time to do a Google search for Borat's name. She should have asked to seen some of his work. She shouldn't have let her depression get in the way of her profession.
But above all else, how can you claim to be a news producer and have no idea about what's going on in the world. Sasha Cohen is a rather well known phenomenon these days, and I would think that other people in the entertainment business would know of him. Sad. Do your job. - Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Hmm, more like "How a woman got herself fired. BONUS: Borat included!"
- Calypsoaf, on 10/12/2007, -17/+26Because she was basically a target of Hollywood to make another dollar at the expense of someone elses problems?
- sjetha, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15Hollywood? You mean Staines, right?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"But above all else, how can you claim to be a news producer and have no idea about what's going on in the world. Sasha Cohen is a rather well known phenomenon these days"
I bet you 95% of people who went to see Borat could not tell you who Sasha Cohen is. - longklaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I was watching the news on that station later in the day of the incident and they mentioned how they were tricked. They didn't seemed too beat up about it.
- appetite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I think what he means is that they didn't call up the station and say, "Hey, interview this guy named Borat!". They probably didn't even use the name Borat before he showed up that day. I think Sasha and team are a little more clever than to let themselves be figured out by a 30 second Google session before the gag takes place.
This article explains a little about how they set up some of the scenes:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15175836/site/newsweek/ - aburd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"Because of him, my boss lost faith in my abilities and second-guessed everything I did thereafter. I spiraled into depression, and before I could recover I was released from my contract early."
So she wasn't fired because of Borat. She was looked at more closely after the incident and she didn't perform. It doesn't sound like she was very stable to begin with. - unitethenations, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Actually, Cohen was in character as Ali G (not as Borat) when he did that interview...but they still didn't research his made up character (Ali G).
- DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Presumably the film was shot well before the media blitz it's gotten. There *might've* been something on google, but probably not near as much around the time it opened.
- SyxxtySyxx, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12I guess Dharma paid for taking the initiative. Get it? DHARMA INITIATIVE?
LOST references FTW! - blankfaze, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@xtr3m: No, the segment from the local news programme was in the film, and the anchor introduced him as "Borat Sagdiyev"
@thetango: Well, it's not hard to tell from the most cursory of investigations who Borat is and what Borat does. It was maybe not as blaringly obvious one year ago but still not hard to tell. So if she did do her research, then she should have known what she was getting into. - MrSpaceman, on 10/12/2007, -45/+49Enough of Borat already.
- psbpv3o, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9"yah... i agree... he was hardly funny the first time I heard about him... I still can't beleive people would enjoy this... Its as bad as that Napolian Dynomite thing.."
You obviously haven't seen the movie. Borat is hilarious. Probably the funniest movie ever. I have never laughed harder or more often in any other movie (and I'm a movie fanatic). Comparing this to napolian dynamite is shameful. - Natfly, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@pegisys "Breaking News: Borat uses a burgerking restroom "
I think you have Borat confused with Steve Jobs - dbug, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The movie was so very disappointing. I hardly ever laughed and all the good jokes have been used dozens of times in his pre-movie appearances anyway. Utter waste of money.
- Corrosionx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5That's a dupe, I didn't care for her the first time, don't care for her either. Some people have got to learn to take responsability for their actions. It wouldn't take long to find out who Borat is.
- Rsulliv1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They did that on a G4 interview. They interviewer was well aware of Borat.
It was not very funny, solely becuase of the G4 interviewer. Borat had some new material for the interview, but the interviewer sort of killed the mood (in the same vein as how G4 killed TechTV) - batmanjr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think it will be interesting to see if there is any other fallout from this movie. I would particularly like to know if those frat boys from University of West Virginia were kicked out of their frat. Some of the stuff they said was unreal.
- diversionmary, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@CHENEYTHEDICK
Wait till Dr, Yachmeni hear about this. A woman news broadcasting? What is next? Write the book?
Unfortunately her vagine hang down like wizard's sleeve. - RaggTopp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3So...... when are we going to see the "marks" that are wise to Cohen's tricks? I love Borat, but I'd like to see someone get the best of him. Let someone with advance knowledge of his antics interview him. Maybe someone willing to pull the same antics on him. Could be side splittingly amusing.
- MyKungFu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1borat = automatic no digg. marked as lame.
- anarchistuk, on 08/11/2009, -11/+12Buried as Inaccurate, she got herself fired.
- Burninsensation, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I cannot understand people who can't appreciate Borat. Sacha Baren Cohen one of the most brilliant satirists alive today, right up there with Stephen Colbert. There's a lot of pop media love for Borat right now which I think is affecting how he's percieved. A lot of people see a lot of stupid people latching onto him because he's in right now and dismiss him. Meanwhile a lot of stupid people fail to appreciate his brilliance and leave the theatre wondering what all the fuss is about. The movie has recieved universal critical acclaim because it simply is that funny. It's a great movie, and if you can't appreciate it, that's not Cohen's fault.
Borat makes a lot of people angry. But that's satire, it's controversial and it's subversive. Just because Kazahkstan and an incompetent producer are sore doesn't mean it's not brilliant comedy. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1WA WA WEE WA http://www.screamifyouwantit.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1salviati: read the article before you comment, the title and summary are misleading.
- MforMike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i have a very hard time believing that.
- Punk27, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2In the movie they use the borat name.
- ddinsdale, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1How useless are you as a news director/booker/whatever to not even do a net search on someone coming on a news show?
- thedez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hey that's a station in my city! I would love to see that video. He could have done a lot worst in Mississippi, e.g. "throw the jew down the well".
- stubadub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@pegisys
It's almost as if something that is currently popular is more likely to get posted. Crazy.
Time and time again people who are tired of hearing about a particular topic feel the need to click said topic and comment. I see topics all day long I'm not interested in and I seem to manage by just ignoring them and reading the next topic. - xtr3m, on 10/12/2007, -10/+9Well, the Borat team probably submitted a different name so Google wouldn't really help.
- senseigmg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Booyakasha
-West Staines Massive - appetite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0turns out i was wrong. she could have just googled it in that situation.
- crypticreign, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0No one has a video of this?
- johntkucz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I couldn't access the clip on youtube -- is it linked?
- Crossing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1rofl, I heard about this on WAPT the day after it happened too. good times
- ptrcd003, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Maybe if you RTFA and some of the links postede above, you'll see that the name Borat wasn't used, they made fake names, websites, phone numbers, publishers and publishers. Then again, it was hilarious, so I don't give a *****.
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