People Magazine......NO Josh.....No Eddie !!!!!

The ClubHouse: Big Brother 2000: General : People Magazine......NO Josh.....No Eddie !!!!!

Sylvia

Monday, November 06, 2000 - 12:52 pm Click here to edit this post

Just got my new People Magazine...Brat Pitt is the sexiest man alive. O:K I can live with that.

Rudy is shown as the sexiest Survivor...great picture of Rudy in a Tux, with Cigar and a Drink.
Actually he looks wonderful!

Went from cover to cover...not even a mention of the on-line poll. What a rip off!!!! Will be E-mailing People to let them know I do not appreciate having expectations of at least a mention! Like they'll really care.

Prince

Monday, November 06, 2000 - 01:07 pm Click here to edit this post

This magazine was published and printed on mid-October and the polls were not even done then. Thats probably why there is no mention. Plus if you look at the FAQ of the poll, there is no guarantee that a article/cover will be gotten for the winner(s) of the poll.

Tukuul

Tuesday, November 07, 2000 - 04:59 pm Click here to edit this post

I saw in the People posting area that some people were complaining because they didn't know who Josh and Eddie were. LOL!

People just swept that poll under the carpet like the lamers they are.

Daffy81

Wednesday, November 08, 2000 - 07:06 am Click here to edit this post

we have to e-mail people magazine.

Man did you guys see the picture they chose for Josh. I sent them 10 other pictures so they could replace this one but they just wont change it. Josh looks stupid on this picture. There is sexier pictures of him on the internet why aren't they using those instead of the crappy one

Guruchaz

Wednesday, November 08, 2000 - 08:22 am Click here to edit this post

Media spin

People magazine doesn't want to be proven wrong so they put up the bad picture.

Prince

Wednesday, November 08, 2000 - 09:43 am Click here to edit this post

Brian Lowery wrote an unflattering article in the LA Times about the People Poll:

http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-TV-X!ArticleDetail-9912,00.html

Excerpt from that article:

Another recent example of numbers-obsessed idiocy comes from a sister Time Warner publication, People magazine, which conducted an Internet poll to let readers select the "10 sexiest men alive."
Unfortunately for People, fans pining for the CBS "reality" series "Big Brother" (yes, such a group really exists) decided this would be a great way to generate publicity for contestants Josh Souza and Eddie McGee. So they flooded People with votes for the duo, who finished No. 1 and 2, respectively--ahead of such luminaries as singer Billy Ray Cyrus and actor Russell Crowe.
Earnest Matthews, a self-proclaimed reality-programming addict in Kansas City, Kan., said Souza's online marching band got the word out via a handful of "Big Brother" Internet message boards.
"I was shocked at how easy it was," he said.
Jeff Oswald, a North Carolina freelance videographer, sees the stunt as just another demonstration of the media's stupidity. Oswald, who organized a campaign called Media Jammers to nettle the producers of "Big Brother"--flying banners over the Studio City house where the show's 10 lab rats were isolated--said the results have inspired him to take on a new project: trying, as he put it, "to manipulate and see if we can make a mockery of every online poll I can find."
"Big Brother" fans should be familiar with shoddy online polling, since CBS and America Online presented meaningless popularity results--fans of a particular inmate could vote again and again--as if they possessed some legitimacy. Indeed, the giddy participation of the program's host, CBS News' Julie Chen, in this nonsense helps explain why Oswald's Web site, http://www.mediajammers.org, refers to her as a "disgraced former journalist." Oswald even tried to influence the People poll, urging the site's visitors to vote for him "early and often."
OK, it's an unusual hobby, but the point being made here is valid. Such bastardized "polls"--either employing call-in or online procedures--highlight the peril in which news outlets place their reputations by dabbling in such unreliable data. In an age when many people already profess to lack trust in the media, why go out of the way to undermine credibility further and provide folks less reason to believe what it is you're telling them?
Asked about "Big Brother" fans' manipulation of his magazine's poll, a People spokesman sheepishly said he would get an official comment, then failed to call back. Now that's a fine way to treat--if readers are wondering what to get a humble columnist for Christmas--next year's "sexiest man alive."
Despite these embarrassments, such pointless exercises will only proliferate, simply because the technology exists and companies can occasionally make a buck off of them. In similar fashion, inane lists--power or otherwise--won't disappear any time soon either.
The presidential election may be over, but when it comes to the media's silly campaigning to generate buzz and excesses related to show-business egos, it's 100% certain that the polls never close.

Big_Al

Wednesday, November 08, 2000 - 02:08 pm Click here to edit this post

Julie Chen is giddy????

Guruchaz

Thursday, November 09, 2000 - 11:37 pm Click here to edit this post

Weird, I thought she was Asian.

Daffy81

Friday, November 10, 2000 - 05:13 am Click here to edit this post

That guy is talking about things he doesn't know anything.

We should all e-mail that guy and tell him that Big brother has alot of fans.

Nsgirl

Friday, November 10, 2000 - 05:39 am Click here to edit this post

I didn't like Julie Chen at first either, but I think it's because I didn't know her (or had
never heard of her)
She redeemed herself. She is a very good
host - very personable, easy to get along
with, etc. I quite liked her.

Amajay

Friday, November 10, 2000 - 09:00 am Click here to edit this post

Daffy81

Tuesday, November 14, 2000 - 06:35 am Click here to edit this post

Hey where are you all.

Nothing's happening. Come on guys start writing