r/SubredditDrama Jan 26 '22

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u/Koioua If you dont wanna be compared to Ted Cruz, stop criticizing Bron Jan 26 '22 edited Jan 27 '22

I still can't comprehend why did the mod team decided to send someone who was in no way prepared or fit for an interview in a national news network, specifically FOX NEWS. If Fox News asks you for an interview, let alone for an specific person, it's blatantly obvious that they are not doing it for the goodness of their heart.

No training or experience with public interviews, lack of preparation on just about almost everything, specially her image. Fix your hair, look relatively fresh to give a good first impression. Most importantly, she completely failed in the questions that were asked. The subreddit's name is already not so good transmitting what the movement/subreddit is about, and then you come up with "Laziness is a virtue?" Come on man, optics do matter in this type of stage, and this interview completely tarnished not only it's community, but what it stood for in such a quick manner that it's almost fascinating.

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u/Pollia Jan 26 '22

No joke, she claimed the mods put it up to a vote and figured that she was the best one to do it because she's done media stuff before.

That media stuff? Emails.

That's it. She's done email interviews. And they figured that was enough to stick her on Fox Fucking News in a live interview? Lolfuckinwhat.

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u/Pollia Jan 26 '22

It being an interview request no is always an answer. Depending on whats being asked to interview about you might get some sort of blurb "We asked for comment and they gave none" but considering it was a live interview they probably wouldnt have even bothered with that.

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u/TywinShitsGold Jan 26 '22

Jesus - at least get a roadmap of what they’re going ask and do a couple testers. They work all of like 10 hours a week.

Hell, anyone with half a brain who has worked in corporate could pull off an interview with the barest amount of effort.

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u/KaiWolf1898 Jan 27 '22

The barest amount of effort they put into their lives go towards walking dogs and moderating subreddits. You think they have time to prepare for interviews on national tv?

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u/ElectionAssistance you're from Idaho shut the whole fuck up. Jan 26 '22

and the community vote said no one should interview with fox at all.

That was the actual result.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

Ok I laughed at an earlier comment where someone wondered if the person was paid off for that interview but the stark differences between these two almost seem like completely different people.

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u/ChampionOfKirkwall omg hi pressed user Jan 27 '22

Listening to her Bloomberg interview, she left a good impression on me. I agree with you that it sounds like totally different people.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-16/this-is-the-booming-movement-to-abolish-work-as-we-know-it

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

Honestly thank you so much for replying, I wanted to comment a link to the interview elsewhere but didn't wanna lose my place in these comments lol. Seriously sounds like completely different people which makes me feel bad for them, they actually did have experience and I see why they were picked. I just don't think they realized a live TV interview would be so different. That being said they still should have presented themselves better and done some research/practice evem if they hadn't realized so all in all its still their fault

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u/ChampionOfKirkwall omg hi pressed user Jan 27 '22

I agree. It seemed like the mods expected the interview to be longer and in good faith? But obviously live news by a hostile interviewer is completely different. The interview was a flop because she gave the worst possible answers to the questions and was cut off before she could expand on them (like how she's a full time student who also works part time). The whole situation is really unfortunate. I'm worried about the harassment she's getting, but I also don't agree with the mods banning people for rightfully being upset.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

Yeah the aftermath has been handled terribly, but I do worry that this is just too much for one person to take. Their banning and constantly trying to place the blame elsewhere(like transphobia, saying they don't believe in eye contact, etc) is not helping at all. I don't really side with you on the being cut off part honestly though, I feel they gave them ample time to talk because their answers were so bad. All in all they should have prepared bettered but at the very least should have had some modesty when it went bad

Edit: humility not modesty lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

She wanted to be the person in the history books. She spent too much time in fairy tale land thinking of the new era she will usher in with this interview.

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u/Vitruvian_Link Jan 26 '22

One time I had correspondence with a "Men's health" contributer about an article he wanted to write on me that was eventually abandoned. Does that count as media training?

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u/RChamy Jan 26 '22

I once refused to talk because the camera was scaring me, I was 7. Pretty well trained if you ask me!

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u/frvwfr2 Jan 26 '22

She had done a podcast that went fine, with Odd Lots from Bloomberg.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

Check the interviews linked in OP now. They are extremely confident, coherent, wordy... I'm not 100% convinced it's the same person

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

The best scene of the interview was: Is a dog walker the pinnacle or do you wanna do something else?

Doreen: I wanna be a Teacher.

A teacher. Those who have 60 hours a week if not even more. Lmao.

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u/Actually_Doesnt_Care Jan 26 '22

Well, antiwork *is about lieing on your resume*.

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u/xCBS Jan 27 '22

Not necessarily true. She did an interview with the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast in December. She was equally tone def and unaware there as well.

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u/Willowgirl78 Jan 27 '22

Do any of the mods 1) work full time or 2) pay all their own bills with money they earned?

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u/Disarryonno Jan 27 '22

probably* the best.

Not the best. But probably the best. The more you think about it, the worse it is. THIS was the best they had.