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it was revealed that LonelyGirl15, aka "Bree" was not a real 16 year old videoblogger, and her appearances on YouTube were scripted and produced by a professional team. The creators of LonelyGirl15 published a letter "To Our Incredible Fans." In it they say: We are amazed by the overwhelmingly positive response to our videos; With your help we believe we are witnessing the birth of a new art form. It goes on to say: Right now, the biggest mystery of Lonelygirl15 is "who is she?" She is no more real or fictitious than the portions of our personalities that we choose to show (or hide) when we interact with the people around us. While we know she is a fake, who the actress is has stayed a secret. However, after some online searching and thanks to Google's cache of online sites, Silicon Valley Watcher believes it has found the identity of the actress that played "Bree." She is Jessica Rose, a 19-year old actress from Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. She recently moved to Los Angeles/Hollywood area to find work.
board=fans&action=di splay&thread=1158038202&page=1 to relay how the identity was broke by you genius'. Virginia Heffernan, of the NYT's, and many have used this forum to gather clues and track her identity and the same contributors frequent the community who originally found the CAA connection. We are all wondering "How'd you do it" Best Regards, LGsleuth by: LGsleuth on September 12, 2006 07:24 AM Great Tom! Now i've emailed all my friends at home to see if anyone knows her or her family as it's a smallish town and we're not much older than her. I've been to Mt Maunganui, NZ, and have friends from there.
com/name/nm2180154/ by: BGB on September 12, 2006 03:17 PM I think you are all being a little stalker-ish. I mean, the production team came out and said, hey, its a fake, we used an actress. And now you've done some sleuthing and you found out the actress's name. But now you want to find out all these personal details about her and I think thats a little freakish. You are bordering on invasion of privacy when you start trying to get her personal information. com/213 55632+jeessss426&hl=en >< =us&ct=clnk&cd=2%20--> by: Kevin on September 12, 2006 08:14 PM Hey Tom - Too much fun!
fraser on September 13, 2006 05:47 AM Im amazed anyone thought she was only 16. by: Anonymous on September 13, 2006 07:47 AM Way to go Matt! by: Louise on September 13, 2006 10:32 AM The newly discovered videos and photos of Jessica Rose are digital fabrications professionally created from the images made by the 16 year old girl in the lonelygirl15 YouTube videos. Her history as an actress is has also been recently created and is fabrication. All of the recently released images and the history of her being an actress is part of a campaign to change the publics perception of the girl in the original videos. lonelygirl15 was developing a large following cult following on YouTube with young impressionable teens. The newly found images have been professionally created and digitally modified using the original lonelygirl15 images found in the YouTube videos. If you want a good story you should have someone look into who provided the funding for this recent campaign and why. It would also be quite interesting to know what exactly the young girl in the original YouTube videos was involved in with regard to her religious beliefs. by: Kevin on September 13, 2006 11:50 AM For those of you who have accounts on MySpace, I started a group for people to join for Jess. not a place to come and bash "lonelygirl for being a fake."
Nicole on September 13, 2006 02:39 PM i'm from mt maunganui and actually know jessica rose. I was stunned to see her on the nz news last night and had no idea that all this youtube stuff was going on, i'm sure if anyone else who knew her was aware of what was going on they would have said who she was. As for me: In my opinion I am rather disappointed in Jessica for lying and doing what she's doing. It is creative, I will give her that, but how sad to have to resort to pretending to be a 15 or 16yr old when you're only 19 yourself. Sorry Jess, but it really is a shame all this happened, the country is laughing at you. by: mtlocal on September 13, 2006 08:31 PM She wasn't lying, she was acting, and she did a damn good job. If you even read this article, these videos were produced by a professional team. I can only speak for myself but I am definitely laughing at you and your inability to get your facts straight. by: jim on September 13, 2006 11:22 PM Hey, I wouldn't say the country is laughing at her. I think more likely the country is amazed, and secretly chuffed that Aotearoa has this connection. But hey, who can generalise about what the country is thinking? Youtube is about being creative - good on them for pulling it off and hooking so many in. Or are you the type who thinks "I read/saw it online, so it must be the truth." The internet is a boon for anyone with a creative bent who wants to try their hand at 15 minutes of fame. by: Julianne on September 13, 2006 11:47 PM Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Remember Me?
I think more likely the country is amazed, and secretly chuffed that Aotearoa has this connection. But hey, who can generalise about what the country is thinking?
She wasn't lying, she was acting, and she did a damn good job. If you even read this article, these videos were produced by a professional team. I can only speak for myself but I am definitely laughing at you and your inability to get your facts straight.
I was stunned to see her on the nz news last night and had no idea that all this youtube stuff was going on, i'm sure if anyone else who knew her was aware of what was going on they would have said who she was. As for me: In my opinion I am rather disappointed in Jessica for lying and doing what she's doing. It is creative, I will give her that, but how sad to have to resort to pretending to be a 15 or 16yr old when you're only 19 yourself.
Tom, AMD are fabricating 65nm and have reached 13,000 wafers starts at new 300mm fab(Fab36). Most capacity is still 90nm but conversion to 65nm already underway. AMD have tried to deny this in the last month, and here with this story but obviously they want to make their own press splash on the migration sometime soon!
Does the pro ask the citizen journalists to help out and feed back the info and get credited for doing their part? Or, as with more biz related stories it is the non-disclosed 'source' that pro's have relied on that will prevail!
The newly discovered videos and photos of Jessica Rose are digital fabrications professionally created from the images made by the 16 year old girl in the lonelygirl15 YouTube videos. Her history as an actress is has also been recently created and is fabrication. All of the recently released images and the history of her being an actress is part of a campaign to change the publics perception of the girl in the original videos. lonelygirl15 was developing a large following cult following on YouTube with young impressionable teens.
quote in the LA Times from management: "David Garcia, director of media relations for the Los Angeles Times, reiterated Tuesday that the newspaper "does not reveal its confidential news sources."
It would help if professional reporting was more transparent -- linking to source information, telling how the story arrived at the reporter's desk, clearing up all that anonymous "sources say" kind of stuff. We need a clearer public accounting of how stories get "placed" into the commercial news stream.
Tom, We've gotten some response to our posts on official PR firm blogs with folks asking to be listed. We've created a page on our Wiki where we'll allow PR firms to add their blog if they have one.
Richard Koman a longtime writer on technology, currently blogs about IT in government and education for ZDNet, writes for the North Bay Bohemian, and studies law in Santa Rosa, CA.
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