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BBB Targets Coporate Media in San Francisco
Coroporate Reporter Served Just Desserts
The pie-throwing flan-archists of the Biotic Baking Brigade have struck again, this time targeting a corporate media reporter responsible for spewing misinformation about the massive anti-war protests in San Francisco.
Phase I of the BBB's "Operation: Shock & Awe" began at 7 pm on March 20. In the middle of blockaded Market Street in downtown San Francisco, outraged individuals surrounded KTVU Channel 2 reporter Jennifer Jolly (seriously, we're not making the name up), a typically blonde-haired, fancy-dressed TV "news" personality, and confronted her regarding her lies and blatant propaganda. Earlier in the day, these individuals had watched her report on the air that demonstrators were violent and disrespectful and lawless, that parents should not bring their children to anti-war demonstrations, that she had not witnessed any incidents of police brutality, and other such garbage.
BBB Agent Tarte Classique, who just so happened to be carrying around cans of whipped cream and paper plates, made her/his way through the throng, announced "Pies for your lies!", and deposited a large plate of cream straight into Jolly's talking head.
Of course, Jolly is just a cog in the corporate media machine. This
phase of the BBB's "Operation: Shock & Awe" is meant to address not an individual telling lies, but rather, an entire corporate-industrial complex. The directors governing the media conglomerates also sit on the boards of the military weapons manufacturers and all of the other industries in an interlocking directorate of power. So, it is not really accurate or enough to just say, "the corporate media is biased." In point of fact, the corporate media IS the war, is the military, is the destruction of the environment, is the gentrification of our cities, is the criminalization of the poor and non-aryan and foreign-born...it is everything that we loath about this society.
During this time of global crisis, we don't expect pies to stop the
military. But rather, we will use them to subvert the dominant paradigm as an auxiliary activity to the more pressing ones such as militant demonstrations, blockades and occupations.
Cry havoc and let slip the pies of war,
Agent Apple for the BBB
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"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers...
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the pies of war."
-William Shakespeare
Phase I of the BBB's "Operation: Shock & Awe" began at 7 pm on March 20. In the middle of blockaded Market Street in downtown San Francisco, outraged individuals surrounded KTVU Channel 2 reporter Jennifer Jolly (seriously, we're not making the name up), a typically blonde-haired, fancy-dressed TV "news" personality, and confronted her regarding her lies and blatant propaganda. Earlier in the day, these individuals had watched her report on the air that demonstrators were violent and disrespectful and lawless, that parents should not bring their children to anti-war demonstrations, that she had not witnessed any incidents of police brutality, and other such garbage.
BBB Agent Tarte Classique, who just so happened to be carrying around cans of whipped cream and paper plates, made her/his way through the throng, announced "Pies for your lies!", and deposited a large plate of cream straight into Jolly's talking head.
Of course, Jolly is just a cog in the corporate media machine. This
phase of the BBB's "Operation: Shock & Awe" is meant to address not an individual telling lies, but rather, an entire corporate-industrial complex. The directors governing the media conglomerates also sit on the boards of the military weapons manufacturers and all of the other industries in an interlocking directorate of power. So, it is not really accurate or enough to just say, "the corporate media is biased." In point of fact, the corporate media IS the war, is the military, is the destruction of the environment, is the gentrification of our cities, is the criminalization of the poor and non-aryan and foreign-born...it is everything that we loath about this society.
During this time of global crisis, we don't expect pies to stop the
military. But rather, we will use them to subvert the dominant paradigm as an auxiliary activity to the more pressing ones such as militant demonstrations, blockades and occupations.
Cry havoc and let slip the pies of war,
Agent Apple for the BBB
@@
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers...
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the pies of war."
-William Shakespeare
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Great to see the BBB is back in style!
I LIKE THAT!
hahahaha
what was her reaction?? were there any cops?
what was her reaction?? were there any cops?
Ooooh, you really got her! You guys are making so much progress against this war! Way to go kids. I heard Bush is thinking about calling the whole thing off due to a bunch of university kids who are throwing pies at reporters and vomiting in the streets of san francisco.
you obviously don't get it......
I'd really love to hear what Ms. Jolly did afterwards....
Also, which play is that W. Shakespeare qoute from?
Also, which play is that W. Shakespeare qoute from?
I'm all for a good pieing, but Brian Banmiller would have been a better choice (or Ken Wayne).
That was so great! I was about two blocks away when that happened, and the news spread pretty damn quickly. The reactions were great! When I ran across the street to yell it out to a big group of protesters, even a few cops started laughing, but they tried to hide it as best they could.
I wish I could've seen it.
I wish I could've seen it.
You compare yourselves in editorials to Martin Luther King. But he was no thug. He did not assault people. He did not scream at people driving to work. He did not destroy and litter the streets he protested in.
But you know this already. I have posted these comments before. I have seen them posted, and then I have seen them removed.
It appears that your approach to free comment, to open mindedness, to open discussion, rivals that of Saddam.
But you know this already. I have posted these comments before. I have seen them posted, and then I have seen them removed.
It appears that your approach to free comment, to open mindedness, to open discussion, rivals that of Saddam.
I was standing right there when she was "pied." She calmly wiped herself off, then yelled for whoever did it to her (the guy's face was covered up) to come back and talk to her... person to person. She actually showed a lot of grace and guts with her reaction. The BBB guy did not come back -- he ran off like a sissy idiot and looked like a huge asshole. Obviously, you guys didn't do your journalistic homework before writing this article either. I went back and watched her reports. She showed video of a cop pulling a kid off his parents shoulders. That's why she said it wasn't safe for kids. She also showed that splinter group of bad kids with all their weapons--and mentioned that it was a splinter group. After watching that, I made sure to stay away from that group. Why don't all the REAL peace activists stand up to those thugs... instead of pie-ing a petite blond woman... who could totally be on your side? Has anyone ever actually talked with her? I did a few days ago at a rally at the civic center. She's totally intelligent and helpful and could really be useful to us. I would love to hear from the "BBB" operative who smashed her. What does he think he accomplished, except making Jolly really think the protesters were bad?
Jesus you guys... figure it out!
Jesus you guys... figure it out!
During its war against Yugoslavia and its current war against Iraq, the United Snakes government has declared that "propaganda" media are legitimate military targets. In Yugoslavia in 1999, the imperialists bombed Yugoslav television, killing 15 workers. (I think the final total was higher, but I can't find it.)
I don't want to encourage the bombing of any TV or Radio station, since, unlike the AmeriKKKan imperialists, I don't like to see ordinary workers killed. Of course, the people who own and run these propaganda outlets are another story!
I don't watch television and don't know anything about the individual who was pied so I have no position on this particular act. And I certainly don't think the average media hack, unlike the top people, deserves anything too much worse than pieing. But those who do deserve pies (if nothing worse) could keep a few large bakeries in business.
I don't want to encourage the bombing of any TV or Radio station, since, unlike the AmeriKKKan imperialists, I don't like to see ordinary workers killed. Of course, the people who own and run these propaganda outlets are another story!
I don't watch television and don't know anything about the individual who was pied so I have no position on this particular act. And I certainly don't think the average media hack, unlike the top people, deserves anything too much worse than pieing. But those who do deserve pies (if nothing worse) could keep a few large bakeries in business.
Its a freeking pie, not a baseball bat, get a grip.
>>BBB Agent Tarte Classique, who just so happened to be carrying around cans of whipped cream and paper plates, made her/his way through the throng, announced "Pies for your lies!", and deposited a large plate of cream straight into Jolly's talking head.<<
So, this is the level to which you've sunk.
So, this is the level to which you've sunk.
This was a great action and "Standing right there" must not have been watching the same news everyone else was seeing. All throughout the day, people were commenting that this Jennifer Jolly (is the name for real) was responsible for some of the worst reporting ever seen in the bay area (and there's plenty of competition). Go check out out the tapes. Not only was she overtly hostile to the protests (that's not unusual) but she was also incredibly stupid - the word "airhead" cropped up repeatedly on the street. She came across as someone who had never left the suburbs and was astounded that anyone would ever question authority. A truly appropriate target for the non-violent actions of the BBB!
Is there any connection between BBB and Noel Godin ?
I thought the Pie in the face was brillant completely outstanding work....
Its high time media reporters realized that thier not "above the law"....
That they are accountable for misinformation, if not by the "so-called" media critics(who happen to be government sponserd in certain cases), then atleast by individuals.
Reporters for the most part believe that thier are some kind of demi god who cant be touched, they spew thier hate without being checked, they invoke hate crimes prejudice, stereotyping and the like.
Its high time they got thier just desserts....
I say good going, its high time to launch an assult of artificial flavouring and low fat milk campaign against those whom are most favourable to this illegal war. As the sayyying goes "Alls Fair in Love and War"...
Its high time media reporters realized that thier not "above the law"....
That they are accountable for misinformation, if not by the "so-called" media critics(who happen to be government sponserd in certain cases), then atleast by individuals.
Reporters for the most part believe that thier are some kind of demi god who cant be touched, they spew thier hate without being checked, they invoke hate crimes prejudice, stereotyping and the like.
Its high time they got thier just desserts....
I say good going, its high time to launch an assult of artificial flavouring and low fat milk campaign against those whom are most favourable to this illegal war. As the sayyying goes "Alls Fair in Love and War"...
I would tend to agree with "Agent Apple" about the integration of mainsteam media with the rest of the military-industrial complex, and that being an issue worthy of our focus and attention as Americans. After all, it is our dollars driving the war machine onward. However, the pie stunt was just plain silly. I have to say "good job" to the people responsible...you have just struck a mortal blow to your own cause. Any legitimate,serious attention which had been drawn to the ideals you clumsily brandished in the street that day disappeared the moment that pie hit that woman. This is something I would expect from a contestant on the Bozo show, or perhaps a person seeking to destroy the credibility of the protests...maybe that's what you really are?
i don't see how smearing whipped cream in someone's face adds any more to a discussion than making farting noises or giving someone the finger.
it's kind of funny, but i don't see how it could possibly help anything in the long run. it doesn't take any amount of research or intelligence. nothing gets learned, arguments aren't improved, information isn't exchanged. it's just a pie. kind of boring.
it's kind of funny, but i don't see how it could possibly help anything in the long run. it doesn't take any amount of research or intelligence. nothing gets learned, arguments aren't improved, information isn't exchanged. it's just a pie. kind of boring.
Actually, when a figure of power is pied, a magical shift in power occurs. Suddenly the power maker is the but of a joke, and more than likely unwilling to accept the humor of it. Through that lack of humility, the powerful is brought to the same level as the rest of us, and so the debate may begin.
Most Americans are disempowered by the propaganda machine spewed through their television sets, but the pie is the great equalizer. Many of these newscasters are smarmy arrogant types with little between their ears. This is a fast and effective way ot humiliating them for the lies they produce for a living. They are an arm of the Bush Administration and nothing else. It is through their misrepresentation that American consent is produced. Why shouldn't their "fine upstanding journalistic reputation" be undermined to reality. Like clowns, shouldn't they get a pie in the face for the public's pleasure?
Most Americans are disempowered by the propaganda machine spewed through their television sets, but the pie is the great equalizer. Many of these newscasters are smarmy arrogant types with little between their ears. This is a fast and effective way ot humiliating them for the lies they produce for a living. They are an arm of the Bush Administration and nothing else. It is through their misrepresentation that American consent is produced. Why shouldn't their "fine upstanding journalistic reputation" be undermined to reality. Like clowns, shouldn't they get a pie in the face for the public's pleasure?
The pie is only a statement that suffices for the moment. It is something to occupy that lull before the storm that will be signified by the loading of the rifles. The pirrahs that are creating the killing fields in Iraq will bring the troops to the doors of Americans soon. All dissent must be stopped at any cost before too many bystanders decide to heed the call to put an end to the new world order and those that enspouse it.
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Stupid pranks like this are in fact revolutionary acts. They are violent destructions of the foundations upon which attrocities like war built, namely logic, rationality and seriousness. Have you seen that Hollywood set they built for press conferences in Doha?!? Pies puncture the facade of the civil, orderly, mechanized world which TV has created without killing people or blowing stuff up. Goofyness allows you to remain non-violent yet get aggressive and pro-active at the same time. Maxo's complaint about furthering discussion and "research and information" is just pseudo-intellectual whining. Humanity has been discussing this stuff back and forth for millenia. Less research, more pies.
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