Audio By Carbonatix
CW 33 reporter Doug Magditch is in a pickle. He has to go live on Nightcap TV in, like, four hours, and he still needs a source for a very important story.
He gives more details in a Reddit post titled “Seeking an ‘internet troll.'”
I’m Doug Magditch, a reporter at CW33. I’m looking to talk to someone who’s ever successfully ‘trolled’ a website, news article, etc. I can do it ‘undercover’ – ie silhouetted, so we can’t tell who’s talking. However, this is a story for today so I need someone ASAP. Thank you! Please email me at doug.magditch@cw33.com
Catching an actual troll is unlikely, since it sounds like the interview would require some form of actual human interaction. But he did snare a response from loathingbf.
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Hi I’m interested in trolling CW33 and the world by pretending to have trolled other more reputable news organizations and the world, please contact me I’m best troll in the world I promise. Please e-mail me at doug.magditch@cw33.com
Magditch is not amused (“Well, that’s not helpful.”), but loathingbf may be onto something here. Maybe the way to handle this is to troll CW33’s troll-trolling by pretending to be an actual troll — which you will be, of course, by the end of the interview.
In case you missed it before, it’s doug.magditch@cw33.com. Please send tape.
Update: Magditch found a real-live troll. Kyle Diamond Jones has “posted on a music board about Aaliyah and said she had sex with dogs” and “created a YouTube video called “Happy N***** Day’ on Martin Luther King Day.”
“I’m an attention-whore,” he says. “Like most people in America nowadays, I’m just trying to get attention. You post things online just to get a reaction.”
