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| Barbara Streisand |
Oddly enough, this month just happens to be the 10th “anniversary” of “The Streisand Effect”, which is a phenomenon that’s actually taught to first year students in law school. For those unfamiliar with this Internet meme, it involves a vainglorious legal battle that Barbra Streisand waged against a photographer/environmentalist named Kenneth Adelman back in 2003.
Adelman worked on an erosion study of the California coast that involved photographing the cliffs and beaches from a helicopter and then compiling them into one continuous, miles-long panoramic image…which could be compared to later versions of the same coastline survey to visually detect the effects of erosion (in a before-and-after, lapsed time sense). This project had absolutely nothing to do with singer Barbra Streisand…until she made it all about her by suing to censor the photos included in the study that captured her Malibu oceanfront mansion on film.
I found a nice recap of Streisand’s ludicrous legal actions HERE…which notes that before Streisand sued to censor the photos, the images of her home on the California coast had been viewed just six times. After she went after Adelman in court for photographing her estate, a half million people looked at his pictures to see what all the fuss was about. By thinking she was rich and powerful enough to censor something she didn’t particularly like and possibly found embarrassing…she actually ended up creating a public relations nightmare for herself (and, honestly, turned herself into an absolute laughingstock (or, more so than usual)).
Read more http://hillbuzz.org/
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| Tim Glende is so frightened of people reading his newsletters and bulletins that two months of newsletters and all the bulletins were erased from the St. Peter Freedom websty. |
GJ - When I publish something, the original material is erased. However, I copy the original text, ever since Rick Johnson erased his offering information and Leonard Sweet valentine overnight.
Jon-Boy Buchholz consoled Johnson with a big, fat WELS grant, even though he earlier wrote that Johnson "chaps my hide."
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| Darwin Schauer |
LCMS President Harrison ordered Steadfast to erase all the material on the Missouri sex offender, put into the pastor office by synod officials, even though he was a convicted sex offender.
Of course, he started again in his new position and was arrested again. The truth will cost the LCMS millions of dollars, if the case is pursued.
The Harrison fan club obeyed their dictator and erased everything. Nobody asked me. Perhaps they were afraid I would quote them. Moi? I have kept Schauer featured on the left-hand column. Too bad a blog has to do what the DPs and SPs refuse to do.
Mark Schroeder, PR Director, WELS, has complained that I featured his Director of Communications too much.
1. I did not absolve Joel, as Schroeder did, just before his "not guilty" plea.
2. I did not erase as many Hochmuth references as possible from the WELS websty.
