Some News in Review: Video Edition… FIXED

2/9/2009 Well well well – an update. I decided that I’d try to get this video thing going even after running the article, just to “test the waters.” So instead of using YouTube – which apparently sucks – I decided to use Vimeo, which has been a great experience. Now understand a few things about this video before you watch it: 1. this is like the 5th take. 2. I improvised the entire thing 3. I said “ladies and gentlemen” too many times, and the video is probably a couple minutes too long. Either way, this is our first voyage into the world of video, so please join us as we explore this scary new world.

PETA Review from Conor McCarthy on Vimeo.

The following is the text from the OLD article, all antiquated and typed out…

Hello Readers. Today we were going to usher in a new era for TTM. The future, if you will. VIDEO. From YOUTUBE. Of ME. I know, it’s exciting. This would have been an experiment for us. Maybe it would have worked, maybe not. A lot of you have never seen me before. There’s a good chance you never wanted to.  I can almost guarantee Kent wouldn’t have liked it, the perfectionist. You should see him try to buy a new pair of pants. Ridiculous.

So soon enough, we’re planning on running videos on here. One day. Once we can figure out the logistics of filming them, making them funny, and getting damned YouTube to do what it’s supposed to do. I pay them nothing, and by golly they should work for it.

The video was about this website that was put up by PETA. It’s a new “PR” campaign to try to re-brand “fish” as “sea kittens” in order to try to convince people not to kill and eat them. You wouldn’t kill and eat a kitten would you? Of course not, this isn’t Vietnam. So PETA, using their spring of eternal wisdom, decided that they should put up a website with ridiculous looking graphics in order to try to get people to sign a petition to stop fishing. To save fish. Who have a memory of like 2 months. The website itself looks like it was made for 4th graders, from the cartoonish “sea kitten” drawings to the bright, Nickelodeon colors. The “about the campaign” section seems like it was written by a single 43 year old woman who refers to insulting as “dissing” when around younger people, because “that’s how kids talk these days.” It attempts funny and, of course, fails miserably.

It doesn’t suprise me so much that PETA keeps coming up with campaigns to save animals. That’s what they do, they’re PETA. It confounds me, however, that they’re so stupid about it. Who came up with the idea of launching a stupid looking website to try to get people not to eat fish anymore? Sea Kittens? Seriously? That’s retarded. Why don’t they approach these issues with whatever intelligent arguments I’m assuming they have, rather than attempting to win us over with their “brilliant” PR ideas? Granted, I’m assuming they have good, reasonable ideas behind their strong desire to save the lives of millions of fish whose brains are a quarter the size of my pinky nail. They might not. They probably don’t, in fact. Had they good reasons, I may have previously been convinced. However, since I know that people matter more than animals, I choose to invest my time, care, and money in organizations that actually help the world in meaningful ways, rather than pissing off what was likely an exorbitant amount of money on a completely useless website. You want to help animals? Donate money to your local humane society. Or donate your time. Just stay away from PETA. They’ll make you dumber.

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