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I would prefer not to ([info]arien) wrote in [info]hp_cornfield,
@ 2007-07-19 13:59:00
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Publisher and Author Wank!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070719/us_nm/arts_potter_review_dc

In an extraordinarily bad analogy, a Bloomsbury representative compares the breaking of the HP release/review embargo by American newspapers and suppliers to the Boston Tea Party.

General reaction: OH HELL NO. (Possible spoilers in link.)

We foolishly thought only the internets were in danger, but...could the Potterdammerung result in the next Revolutionary War?
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[info]smo
2007-07-19 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Are there any spoilers?

*scared to click link*

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(no subject) - [info]hypno_jango, 2007-07-19 06:10 pm UTC
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[info]sir_hellsing
2007-07-19 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Potterdammerung keeps impressing me.

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[info]bemysty
2007-07-19 06:08 pm UTC (link)
If it comes to a revolution, I claim Manhattan.

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(no subject) - [info]rennyn_alerothi, 2007-07-20 02:45 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2007-07-20 02:48 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2007-07-19 09:46 pm UTC
That was beautiful - (Anonymous), 2007-07-19 10:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rennyn_alerothi, 2007-07-20 03:38 am UTC

[info]joye
2007-07-19 06:22 pm UTC (link)
World War I: An assassination.
World War II: Invasion of Poland.
World War III: Reading a book early.

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2007-07-19 07:01 pm UTC
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[info]carlanime
2007-07-19 06:35 pm UTC (link)
If you have another Boston Tea Party, someone let me know so I can be there. I'm Canadian, but I love Liberty's Kids.

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Icon love! - [info]smo, 2007-07-19 06:36 pm UTC
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Seconds the icon love - [info]hangingfire, 2007-07-19 06:50 pm UTC
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[info]damnedfallacy
2007-07-19 06:36 pm UTC (link)
GIP!!

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[info]shallow_kid
2007-07-19 06:36 pm UTC (link)
They are taking this shit way too seriously. Someone from spoil_me_dh said he/she was ToS'ed off of GMAIL!, apparently for sending a few people links to where they could download the leaked book.

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[info]demonbean
2007-07-19 06:41 pm UTC (link)
[A Bloomsbury spokeswoman] likened the events in the United States to the Boston Tea Party, a protest by American colonists against Britain in 1773.

"But over here it is blockades as usual, with the embargo being enforced unflinchingly and without exception by all our customers," she said.


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[info]sisterelwood
2007-07-19 07:05 pm UTC (link)
I'm claiming Michigan so I can get control of the largest amount of fresh water in the United States. Hooray!

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(Anonymous)
2007-07-19 07:36 pm UTC (link)
The Boston Tea Party?

That's possibly the lamest hyperbolic analogy I've ever heard. If he compared it to the Holocaust, at least it would be offensive and break a jurisimprudence law or three. This is just...dumb.

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It gets better!
(Anonymous)
2007-07-19 08:03 pm UTC (link)
My favourite thing out of all this, including colonialist!Bloomsbury, ASS and Carpetbook , has to be Jo's Army over on Leaky (does this call to arms count as a petition ?)http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/7/19/new-york-times-posts-spoilers-call-for-letters

It's all too much! *dies of perforated stomach muscles ,due to having to hold in tehh lolz all day at work*

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Re: It gets better! - (Anonymous), 2007-07-19 08:21 pm UTC
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Re: It gets better! - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2007-07-19 08:40 pm UTC
Re: It gets better! - (Anonymous), 2007-07-19 08:45 pm UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2007-07-19 08:48 pm UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]napalmnacey, 2007-07-21 02:41 am UTC
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Re: It gets better! - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2007-07-19 09:02 pm UTC
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Re: It gets better! - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2007-07-19 09:32 pm UTC
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Re: It gets better! - [info]napalmnacey, 2007-07-21 02:44 am UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]luvginnyarwen, 2007-07-21 02:48 am UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]napalmnacey, 2007-07-21 02:50 am UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]luvginnyarwen, 2007-07-21 02:52 am UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]napalmnacey, 2007-07-21 03:01 am UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]luvginnyarwen, 2007-07-21 03:05 am UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]napalmnacey, 2007-07-21 03:17 am UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]luvginnyarwen, 2007-07-21 03:23 am UTC
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Re: It gets better! - [info]luvginnyarwen, 2007-07-21 03:39 am UTC
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Re: It gets better! - [info]napalmnacey, 2007-07-21 03:51 am UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]luvginnyarwen, 2007-07-20 06:12 am UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2007-07-20 06:13 am UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]luvginnyarwen, 2007-07-20 06:14 am UTC
Re: It gets better! - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2007-07-20 06:44 am UTC
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Re: It gets better! - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2007-07-20 06:55 am UTC
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[info]anon_a_mouse
2007-07-19 08:26 pm UTC (link)
Ah, so it's a good thing that I draged myself out to the range and taught myself how to handle a gun, because WW III is nigh obviously.

/sarcasm

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[info]lil_miss_stfu
2007-07-19 08:42 pm UTC (link)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

*deep breath*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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(Anonymous)
2007-07-19 09:24 pm UTC (link)
News has hit its_a_fake: it's real.

http://community.livejournal.com/its_a_fake/58629.html

http://community.livejournal.com/its_a_fake/59098.html

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[info]ladylance
2007-07-19 09:44 pm UTC (link)
W00t! New revolution!

Can I prematurely claim California? I don't really want to have to go war with Mexico for it D:

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pastri_archy
2007-07-20 05:47 am UTC (link)
Hey, the Boston Tea Party happened on my birthday! :D

*Dumbledore-esque obliviousness*

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[info]syncopation
2007-07-20 06:24 am UTC (link)
To this I say that the Atlantic Ocean had better taste like peach.

Because peach tea is some good stuff.

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[info]chickadilly
2007-07-20 06:39 am UTC (link)
One of the comments: What is the Boston Tea party? Is it like the Teddy Bear's picnic?

O__o

I seriously hope that (anon) poster is kidding. Or at the very least NOT American.

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(Anonymous)
2007-07-20 01:11 pm UTC (link)
I know! I saw that yesterday and I was WTF? The review didn't even have any fucking spoilers. If ANY newspaper should be getting punished, it's The Sun (there's a REASON why they had to edit it like three times). Seriously, in the beginning it goes, "Don't worry, we won't spoil the details for you" but then it gives away the damn ENDING.

All I see is a pathetic attempt for Melissa to try and impress JK.

Leave NYT alone, biatches.

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(Anonymous)
2007-07-20 01:13 pm UTC (link)
Personal favourite reaction: "We will review your books until you give us our freedom!"

-meagenimage

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Reader Response to Editorial Response
[info]syncopation
2007-07-20 06:09 pm UTC (link)
I take particular glee in seeing the "Won't someone think of the children?!" arguments

Best reaction about children eVAR!

Good point about profiteering, though.

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[info]white_serpent
2007-07-20 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Why on earth is this here and not on f_w?

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(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2007-07-21 02:48 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2007-07-20 09:19 pm UTC (link)
I'd like to know how many of these people who are screaming about the children's laughter being silenced by the NYT review actually think that a lot of children read the NYT's book reviews. Because I'm guessing not many.

The end of a wildly popular children's series was leaked days before its release, despite the mega $$$$ spent on security. How is this not news?

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Update on the Potterdammerung
(Anonymous)
2007-07-20 10:11 pm UTC (link)
The NYT got so much wank from the Potter heads that it had to publish an editorial explaining itself. Read the comments for some truly scary splooge

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/did-the-times-betray-harry-potter-fans/

The reviewer is compared to Umbridge, a criminal and the Grinch. Oh, and apparently the NYT violated all sorts of journalistic ethics. Some of these people apparently don't read reviews, because they are insisting reviews only come out on the opening date. Since when?

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Re: Update on the Potterdammerung - (Anonymous), 2007-07-20 10:19 pm UTC
Re: Update on the Potterdammerung - [info]jujubee, 2007-07-20 10:31 pm UTC
Re: Update on the Potterdammerung - [info]syncopation, 2007-07-21 03:20 am UTC
Re: Update on the Potterdammerung - (Anonymous), 2007-07-20 10:23 pm UTC

[info]rennyn_alerothi
2007-07-20 10:42 pm UTC (link)
Oh my, the wank over on the comments page of the NYT response to Jo and Bloomberg's complaints is just priceless. The Righteous Indignation just reverberates. *is in tears*

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