ATS Was Shown on MSNBC

Just watched it, they show one of Weiss post on the air tonight at 8:40 Pm est.

Just wanted to give every one a heads up!

Peace

Zintac

Which show?

What'd they say? They mentioned us by name?

Countdown With Keith Olberman.

They are gonna reshow it at 12:00 midnight EST

And yes they did show the ATS logo and his username.

He said the "the web site above top secret"

No other user names where mentioned.

Peace

Zintac

[edit on 24-3-2005 by Zintac]

[edit on 24-3-2005 by Zintac]

This is terrible.

Actually this is beyond terrible.

Originally posted by Nerdling
This is terrible.

Actually this is beyond terrible.

Yep. I wonder if we will have some 'visitors' soon...............

Originally posted by Nerdling
This is terrible.

Actually this is beyond terrible.

Yeah not the Best PR for the site thats for sure.
Be ready for a flood of people trying to sign up.

Peace

Zintac

All I can say is thank goodness you implemented the vetting process for membership!!! Nice timing!!

This place could be swamped in the next day or so. But then again who watches MSNBC?
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Thank you for the heads-up, Zintac. I'll watch the replay at 12am EST.

What kind of people will this publicity attract? I hope there is a way to counter this bad PR. I can see ATS getting slung through the mud for this. It will be a sad day if it happens.

Originally posted by Gools
All I can say is thank goodness you implemented the vetting process for membership!!!

Nice timing!!

This place could be swamped in the next day or so. But then again who watches MSNBC?

.

Trust me i Don't watch MSNBC, there was nothing else on and was channel surffing, Seen the kids name and decided to watch it to see if there was any new news on it.

No Problem Banshee, Just watching out for the site. i just found this site a while ago. And now the first web page i goto when the pc gets turned on is this site. I care alot about this site. Great Information and good people.

Peace


Zintac

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Countdown normally gets ratings of 500k at best.

Probably sitting around the 380 mark as usual. Depends on the Schiavo case tonight and whoever Larry King has on.

Originally posted by Kidfinger
What kind of people will this publicity attract? I hope there is a way to counter this bad PR. I can see ATS getting slung through the mud for this. It will be a sad day if it happens.

Keep in mind we haven't hidden any of Weise's posts, nor is ATS in any way responsible for what happened.
It may attract some curiosity seekers, but a conspiracy site is FAR less controversial than a neo-Nazi site. I think most of the media attention will be on those sort of offensive sites rather than our community.

Originally posted by Kidfinger
What kind of people will this publicity attract?

With a name like "Above Top Secret" anybody with a little curiosity. That's how I ended up here. Did a search and saw the domain name among the links (wasn't really related to the search I was doing... but that name!!) clicked on it and I was hooked.

I wonder how MSNBC got a hold of this little bit of info? The authorities?
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Did anyone with a capture card manage to record it?

Here's the MSNBC page on it:

www.msnbc.msn.com...

Here's the site they linked to in that article:

startribune
In the last few months of his life, Jeff Weise was obsessed with death.

The clues are sprinkled along a long trail the troubled 16-year-old boy left on Internet websites, blogs and postings where he weighed in on everything from Hitler and Bigfoot to suicide attempts and school shootings.

"They pegged me as a school shooter earlier this year," Weise wrote last year in one of the dozens of postings he made on AboveTopSecret.com, which bills itself as the world's most popular site for conspiracies, coverups, UFOs and other such topics.

On one site, he posted a short story about surviving a school shooting. On another, he illustrated a profile page with a still image from the movie "Elephant," which is based on the 1999 Columbine High School shootings.

On a third site, under the Web name "Regret," he posted a short but bloody animated video in which four people are shot and a police car is blown up with a grenade before the gunman shoots himself in the head.

--snip--

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see here - www.msnbc.msn.com...

which takes you here - www.startribune.com...

The children, the children, will SOMEONE think of the children!!!

Originally posted by Nerdling
This is terrible.

Actually this is beyond terrible.

aww we're gonna look like a bunch of nuts now!!

Originally posted by Bleys
which takes you here - www.startribune.com...

"They pegged me as a school shooter earlier this year," Weise wrote last year in one of the dozens of postings he made on AboveTopSecret.com, which bills itself as the world's most popular site for conspiracies, coverups, UFOs and other such topics.

Nothing too damaging there in my opinion.

Hope it doesn't get spun into something it's not by some idiot reporter somewhere.
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The children.

The children.

WONT SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

Oh Hello Mr Jackson....


I reckon we should just deal with this and move on, try and ignore it even.