Twilight News Out of Control

The Deadbolt has a great article up on how Twilight news coverage has spun completely out of control. We’ve seen it all in the months since the movie came out. There were fairly harmless things like Vanessa Hudgens supposedly auditioning for the nonexistent part of Leah in New Moon to outright character assassination regarding the Stephenie Meyer lawsuit. What’s more interesting is that once a story is corrected, the outlets that made the error almost never retract their stories, not even in tiny tiny font. So the stories just keep perpetuating themselves.

Deadbolt, which operates out of Vancouver, did something really awesome the other day. They asked us about the quote we got from Summit about the Stephenie Meyer lawsuit being fake. They didn’t just take our word for it. Deadbolt has an article up on what they’ve seen as a shift in media responsibility in the ten or so years that they have been on the Internet.

“Between five and ten years ago, rumors were handled much differently prior to the blogging explosion. It was an unspoken rule that without confirmation, you’d be tarred and feathered and mocked over a lack of credibility by reporting rumor as fact … or near close to fact, as near certainty. Confirmation, or near confirmation was key. Today there’s an “okay, let’s move on” mentality since there are simply too many outlets, too many people writing the same stories, and too many writers with wide gaps in experience all playing in the same pool.”

Check out the whole story here.

Rumor Control

OK in the latest that’s making our inbox and alerts spin:

    • The New Moon soundtrack artists have been selected and there’s a super secret letter from Chris Weitz that says so. It was most likely an April Fools joke that people took seriously. Probably an April fools joke, but not real. FALSE
    • That Jaden Nation guy is just trying to rip Kaleb Nation off. He copied his name,he’s trying to sound like him, and everything. Well, given that his name is actually Jaden Nation, and he is Kaleb’s real life brother we think any similarity has to do with genetics. Anyway, we had Jaden’s reguar YouTube gig pointed out to us, asked if he would do a saterical, news wrap-up opinion piece for us each week, and the rest is history. False
    • OMG! Rob is sleeping with Nikki! Umm…honestly, we have no idea. However the idea that Nikki Reed in broad daylight, no disguise, aware that a full cadre of paparazzi was following her would go to Rob’s hotel for several hours of sexual bliss and was hoping that this info wouldn’t get out? You do the math. Then of course maybe Rob has an entire legion of women up there and Nikki had to share him with Paris, Camilla, Kristen, Megan, Natalie, Kiera….(Did we miss anyone? It’s hard to keep track of who Rob has mesmerized into his bed despite his raging BO problem.)  We are totally agreeing with Buddy TV’s assessment. UNKNOWN, BUT WE DOUBT IT
    • They are still actively casting New Moon. Nope, as far as we are aware they are done. Also we have nothing to do with the casting. Last week, all of a sudden, we started getting a bunch of resume’s emailed to us. Not sure if that info is appearing on a blog or forum someplace, but don’t send us your resume; we can’t help you. FALSE