Posts tagged as Ridiculous
Reuters Trolls for Traffic With Soros' Occupy Wall Street Non-Connection
Is #soros cash behind #ows protests? We took a look and here's what we found http://t.co/v5rto1FY @michellenichols @reuters #occupywallst
This amazing piece of trolling by Mark Egan and Michelle Nichols at Reuters has set the world on fire with the news that George Soros is the sole financial backer of Occupy Wall Street! Oh except he isn't. (He granted cash to an organization that then made small grants to Adbusters, a publication of which Soros had never heard, and which was one of the organizing groups behind Occupy Wall Street.) But good job, shady mega-trolls, from your headline ("Who's behind the Wall St. protests?") to the whole rest of it ("there has been much speculation...."). Mark Egan really went the extra mile on Twitter: "Here's what we found"? What you found is a handily shareable non-connection between the right's favorite lefty bogeyman and an independent protest movement. Kudos go to Reuters editor Claudia Parsons for really juicing it up. Gross job, everyone!
The Pixies Deluxe Box Set
This summer, for 450 bucks, you will be able to buy the complete catalog of The Pixies in one set. Yes, all five (5!) albums, on 180 gram vinyl and 24k layered CD. That would be almost $100 an album, says mathematics. They aren't being remastered, since they are already perfect, and no live audio recordings are being added. Or, since you already have it all on mp3, you could just not buy it.

