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Possible Movie Pitches Culled From The Mediaite Comments Section

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This morning, we brought you the story of the man who got a movie deal based on comments he posted on Reddit. That got us thinking, why hasn’t anyone looked into our comments section. Well, it turns out, they have! In fact, there are already a number of movies all in production based on different comments people have posted on our site.

Here’s a quick run down of the upcoming films!

Comedian Chris Gethard Interviews A Hostile Message Board Commenter In Awkward And Fascinating Video

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Much has been said about the dangers of cyber bullying and how it affects regular people, but what about those in the public eye? Comedian Chris Gethard recently starred in the Comedy Central series Big Lake. One day, he discovered a post on his IMDB page that was titled “Please Stop Acting” and proceeded to get harsher from there (sample: “The one intelligent career choice you have made thus far is to not have your agent, assuming he hasn’t hung himself, post a picture on your IMDB profile.”). Gethard, who’s become famous in the New York comedy scene for “out of the box” ideas like waging a year-long (and successful!) campaign to get Sean “Diddy” Combs to perform in a “basement theater comedy show,” decided to do something a little interesting. He tracked the commenter down (using self-described “creepy” Google techniques) and brought the guy in for an interview. Yeah, it’s as uncomfortable as you’d expect.

A Troll By Any Other Name: The Case For Commenting Anonymously

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Los Angeles Times writer James Rainey wrote an incredibly in-depth piece this weekend on the way online commenting has evolved (or utterly devolved, depending on how you look at it) over time. As Rainey sees it, anonymity breeds abusive comments… but perhaps anonymous commenters are getting the blame for a problem that’s far more difficult to deal with.

Roger Ailes Vs. Arianna Huffington On This Week Over “Nasty” Language

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It was a news-making This Week on ABC today, as Barbara Walters took the helm for not just Scott Brown‘s first big sit-down but an epic roundtable from around the political spectrum.

The two stand-out guests – CEO and President of Fox News Roger Ailes making his first appearance ever on This Week and Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington.

Conservative Blog Commenters Target Malia Obama With Racial Slurs

The Vancouver Sun reports on an explosion of racially-charged slurs in the comments section of Free Republic, a popular conservative blog: “‘A typical street whore.’ ‘A bunch of ghetto thugs.’ ‘Ghetto street trash.’ ‘Wonder when she will get her first abortion.’ These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative ‘Free Republic’ blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama’s 11-year-old daughter Malia.”

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