Heeb Comedy Show Tonight In NYC

Heeb Magazine has a comedy show at Lolita Bar on Broome Street tonight from 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm. The first – and only the first – person to tell the bouncer at the door that "Shmarya is a fat blogger who lives in his mother's basement in his underwear" gets one free admission.

Comments

[corn popper]

hey big guy you finally lightening up a bit

[WoolSilkCotton]

I wish you could have given us more than a few hours' notice!

[ah-pee-chorus]

thats damn funny.

[Litvish]

Hilarious.

Shmarya, why not do stand up comedy?

Just talk about life as you know it and all the weird stuff you know about.

[Shmarya]

Thank you.

[Simple Jew]

B"H

I thought maybe they hacked into your site again.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Heeb spelled backwards is Beeh! (Something for sheeple to appreciate).

[p]

the first – person to tell the bouncer at the door that "Shmarya is a fat blogger who lives in his mother's basement in his underwear" gets one free admission.

Now that is funny!

On a more serious note I just saw this disturbing court decision.

Judge Hits Blogger With $2.5 Million Charge for Not Being a Journalist

In a case that’s sending a frightening message to the blogger community, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that a blogger must pay $2.5 million to an investment firm she wrote about — because she isn’t a real journalist.

As reported by Seattle Weekly, Judge Marco A. Hernandez said Crystal Cox, who runs several blogs, wasn’t entitled to the protections afforded to journalists — specifically, Oregon’s media shield law for sources — because she wasn’t “affiliated with any newspaper, magazine, periodical, book, pamphlet, news service, wire service, news or feature syndicate, broadcast station or network, or cable television system.”

The Obsidian Finance Group sued Cox in January for $10 million for writing several blog posts critical of the company and its co-founder, Kevin Padrick. Obsidian argued that the writing was defamatory. Cox represented herself in court.

The judge threw out all but one of the blog posts cited, focusing on just one (this one), which was more factual in tone than the rest of her writing. Cox said that was because she was being fed information from an inside source, whom she refused to name.

Without the source, she couldn’t prove the information in the post was true — and thus, according to the judge, she didn’t qualify for Oregon’s media shield law since she wasn’t employed by a media establishment. In the court’s eyes, she was a blogger, not a journalist. The penalty: $2.5 million.

The debate over whether bloggers are journalists has been going on for years, but the consensus has been largely settled — on the opposite side of what Judge Hernandez has ruled. Attorney Bruce E. H. Johnson, who wrote the media shield laws in next-door Washington State, told Seattle Weekly that those laws would have protected Cox had her case been tried in Washington.

In a more high-profile case, an editor from Gizmodo escaped criminal charges after revealing to the world an iPhone prototype lost in a bar. Although police raided the California home of editor Jason Chen in 2010, the case was cited as a test for that state’s media shield law, and the district attorney said publicly this year that no charges would be filed to anyone from the site.

When discussing the case, Steve Jobs told The Wall Street Journal‘s Walt Mossberg that he believed Chen was “a guy,” not a journalist. Mossberg countered that he himself was a blogger, and that he thought bloggers were journalists. (You can see the exchange in this video, at about the 17:00 mark.)

Are bloggers the same as journalists? And if not, what is the dividing line? Share your thoughts in the comments.

[p]

Woopps, I forgot to include the source of the above story.

http://mashable.com/2011/12/07/blogger-vs-journalist/

[Shmarya]

1. Do not post entire articles or I'll delete them.

2. The decision will never withstand appeal for lots of reasons you are not bright enough or honest enough to understand.

3. Remember my previous warnings to you about staying on topic, about not violating rules, etc.? You haven't learned your lesson very well and you're about to pay the consequences for that.

[Jeff]

That is funny!

If you insult Kelsey, do you get a free drink?

[Dr. Dave]

Take my blogger...please!

[Rochel]

Does the winner get his/her picture posted on FM? :)

[Proton Soup]

i didn't think this was a lolita crowd.

[confused]

Shmarya, don't you think that's a little harsh? The guy was just opening up the air for a lively debate about journalism vs. blogging! What's the harm in that?

[Askan]

Relax Shmara, "p" is not exactly stealing your spotlight on stage he's simply farting in the same bathroom you do- failedmessiah.com

[Shmarya]

Posted by: confused | December 07, 2011 at 11:51 PM

Please.

It should be obvious from what I wrote, for example, "Remember my previous warnings to you about staying on topic, about not violating rules, etc." that this isn't the first or second time this person has done something wrong.

Past that, I'll make this very simple for you.

No more trolls.

"P" has long since out lived her welcome. She has had multiple warnings. And she doesn't learn.

[unconfused]

oh. I was not aware that this was an ongoing issue. Can't you just block her, if it is that repetitively annoying to have her take part in discussions?

[Shmarya]

Posted by: unconfused | December 08, 2011 at 12:05 AM

Yes, but I don't like to ban people unless there is no other choice.

[Waiting4Moshiach]

Someone once showed me that socalled heeb magazine. It is worse than the english Forward, worse than New York magazine and shows what can happen to Yidden who are off the derech.

[Office of the Chief Rabbi]

Mazal Tov, Shmarya; you're either a cultural icon, or a punchline.

I was a charter subscriber to HEEB. Then I moved on to reading KIKE! That, too, went the way of all periodicals, and now I read F***ING JEW BASTARD magazine. This repeats my childhood progression from MAD, to National Lampoon, to Failed Messiah.