{"id":933,"date":"2013-06-11T05:29:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T05:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furry.asinglelion.com\/?p=933"},"modified":"2013-06-11T05:29:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T05:29:40","slug":"furlandia-and-the-mtv-controversy-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"Furlandia and the MTV controversy Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Media or should I say sex, lies and digital shooting<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flayrah.com\/4946\/furlandia-portlands-first-furry-convention-overshadowed-mtv-controversy#comments\">reported (see comments)\u00a0<\/a>the entertainment had pulled the plug on the Portland Furlandia shoot, but search around it seem there still keeping the project going on I noting the on Twitter they still asking for furries for True Life episode.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I had talked to those who ran the convention and look around at other post; there are two reasons I heard why the shoot was pulled. First the media company did not like the restriction the Furlandia placed on the media company and second we were boring. There were plenty of good positive footage on furries but it was not the hook they wanted: the wild and craze yfiff in fursuits angle of CSI, Sex 2k \u2026..<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nuka of Taboo episode chimed in with similar comments how the Produces of National Geographic Taboo could not get<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the excitement they were looking <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">for after<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">four days of shooting.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So what do I get from all of this. As I said before, the media are not there to tell your story, the media is there to find somebody to fit theirs.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Second being boring and showing the furry fandom is nothing like how the internet and CSI portrays us as a defense against media bias, but the media will just move on down the food chain to they get their person. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finally to the media, if you really want to know is join us attend out meets you realize we are neither like the internet nor what the creators of CSI makes us out to be. Do you home work first and if you insist on bias then <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I will be watching and will call you to the mat.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Update: hold the presses, they really did not mean they pulled the plug on project they only pulled the plug on the Furlandia shoot.\u00a0Even after claiming they pulled the plug, the producer \u00a0 Alex Shaw was on \u00a0twitter still looking for furries.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fauxpawstudios\">fauxpawstudios<\/a> Casting furries for True Life. Tasteful, informative and fun. Documentary.We&#8217;d love to focus on a wedding! alex@alexshaw.com<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Shaw (@alexshawtv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexshawtv\/status\/341666123969859584\">June 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what does say about her claim on Flayrah wanting \u201cI ALWAYS look to tell a good, balanced story\u201d, If that\u2019s was true then why drop the Furlandia shoot?\u00a0 Why the vague deceptions and appeal to definitions.\u00a0 I believe the produce is trying\u00a0 slip down the furry food chain to find\u00a0 the person that fists\u00a0\u00a0 the shows\u00a0 preconceptions\u00a0 of the fandom. The media company want to tell our story they should have used the Furlandia shoot and show we just a bit mundane and perhaps a bit boring.\u00a0 I have a lot doubts of\u00a0 MTV and producer&#8217;s honesty\u00a0\u00a0and I have history on my side; how many times we furs\u00a0 heard some reporter or producer wanting to tell our story and end up having the shoot\u00a0 used\u00a0 against and damaging the image of the fandom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media or should I say sex, lies and digital shooting As it reported (see comments)\u00a0the entertainment had pulled the plug on the Portland Furlandia shoot, but search around it seem there still keeping the project going on I noting the on Twitter they still asking for furries for True Life episode.\u00a0 I had talked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[165,52,171],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furry","category-media","category-news","tag-furlandia","tag-media-bias","tag-mtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}