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The Hills' Disclaimer: This is Total BS

Posted by Emily Farris

We haven't written a lot about "The Hills," the MTV realifake show chronicling the lives of Heidi, Lauren and Spencer, because we haven't watched enough episodes to form a real opinion of the show as a whole. But we have watched enough to know it's pretty much petty, made-up bullshit. Petty, made-up bullshit that we maybe, sometimes enjoy watching.



Now, "The Hills" is being aired in the UK, with the following disclaimer.

‘The following programme may contain scenes that have been created purely for entertainment purposes.”


You don't say? Hey, it's almost like real TV, when we had writers.

[via Songs About Buildings and Food]


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Posted Jan 22 2008, 01:46 PM
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tokyotonic said:

There have been a lot of changes around scanner lately but I’ve been sticking with you thus far.  However, your recent abuse of the click through “read more…” has gotten down right out of hand.  I’m sure it helps you monitor your reader’s habits, understand their interests and what not but enough is enough.  I’m posting here because this instance illustrates my point, a click through to read two additional sentences.  C’mon guys.

January 22, 2008 5:44 PM

katie123 said:

I agree wholeheartedly with the above comment.

January 22, 2008 6:35 PM

Onym said:

So do I.  If you want us to click a button to read the rest of something, why not set it up like the videosift.com comments, which through [programming language] are set up so that the URL doesn't change when you click "view comments"

I still love your blog though.

January 22, 2008 6:53 PM

Rhagen said:

Yeah, I'm with them.  I've been reading the blog for a very long time, and I'm not too upset with the changes.  But the "read more" links are getting very irritating.

January 22, 2008 7:43 PM

Emily Farris said:

Hey guys. Point taken, but like the first commenter said, it really does help us to find out how many people are reading what. And that helps us bring you a better Scanner. I promise we'll make a better effort to have more after the jump than before the jump (unless it's something really juicy, like boobs!) and we're working to have the jump actually jump to the place you left off. But keep the feedback coming. That, too, helps us bring you a better Scanner.

January 22, 2008 10:40 PM

JCF said:

I'm currently messing up your "Read More" statistics by opening every single one of them in a new tab before reading them.  They're easier for me to handle that way.  If you want to know what interests us, try being more direct about it: put it an icon that you click if you found the entry interesting.

January 23, 2008 8:55 AM

Dan said:

Hey Emily,

How about putting in a voting button for posts? It would give you even better feedback than clickthroughs and make your userbase happier (ie, more likely to stay around)

January 24, 2008 1:08 AM

About Emily Farris

Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook will be published in fall 2008. Emily lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her cat, but just one...so far.

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    Brian Fairbanks is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker. He won the Williamsburg Spelling Bee once. He loves cats, women with guns, and burning books.

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