I'm sure you've all seen this video. It came out around 2000, if I remember correctly, and I laughed profusely at it. It was part of an entire PSA-spoof website that looked so good that plenty of morons wrote hate mail.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1994546325179027565

Anyway, PBS just canned this chick from her current job.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/24/AR2006072400931.html
Seems the 2-5 year old age range is heavily influenced by old parody videos on goof-off web sites.

Shit like this just pisses me off. Too many fuckers can't seem to deal with the notion of seperate work and personal lives, or actually, personal lives left long ago in the past. Mr. Rogers was just lucky no photos emerged from his college "experimentation" years.

7/25/2006 7:19:38 PM

Yeah, that's lame. Unless kids started complaining to mommy, I see no point in this action.

7/25/2006 8:22:19 PM

It sucks for her, but surely you see why the company did what it had to do?

I'd like to think people would eventually get smart about what they post on the Internet, but then I read a young professional's myspace/facebook profile and wonder, instead, if they have thought ahead to what would happen if their boss happened upon the site.

Sidenote: A couple of days ago, for the first time in a couple of years, I tried to visit technicalvirgin.com, and it was down. I was sad.

7/25/2006 11:00:28 PM

1 - PBS is a nonprofit organization that relies entirely on donations and tax dollars to operate.

2 - PBS is regularly the subject of republican critisicm that it is "too liberal"

3 - PBS has no choice but to protect itself against negative publicity, and political backlash.

4 - Don't make put your face on the internet doing stupid shit if you ever hope to have a high-profile professional career, especially in the public sector.

7/26/2006 2:28:36 AM

How is it her "personal life" when she's on a video that she knows will be aired to the general public? I think broadcasting a message to the world crosses the "personal life" boundary.

It's called consequences for actions. In this case it was losing the PBS gig.

7/26/2006 8:04:22 AM