{"id":190510,"date":"2009-11-19T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/19\/is-pop-musician-bryan-adams-being-investigated-for-his-involvement-in-a-child-prostitution-ring\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T18:30:00","slug":"is-pop-musician-bryan-adams-being-investigated-for-his-involvement-in-a-child-prostitution-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/19\/is-pop-musician-bryan-adams-being-investigated-for-his-involvement-in-a-child-prostitution-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Pop Musician Bryan Adams Being Investigated For His Involvement in a Child Prostitution Ring?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course not. The only crime of Bryan Adams is that he makes crappy music. From a quick look at the Wiki, it appears that he does charity, though I think that his support of PETA is misguided, and so I have no hostility to him, though if one of his song’s comes on, I will<\/span> change the station.<\/p>\n

In perusing his Wiki page, I also discovered that he also does photography, and appears to be pretty good at this, having won some awards.<\/p>\n

So, why do I post this? Because Lindsay Beyerstein, aka Majikthise, had a post on the Runners’ World<\/span> photos of Sarah Palin that ended up in Newsweek<\/span><\/a>, and in her initial post, she named listed the prographer of record as Bryan<\/span> Adams, when the photographer was actually Brian<\/span> Adams.<\/p>\n

It’s not surprising that she got a complaint from Mr. Adams’ representatives, after all that’s their job, but their threats were over the top:<\/p>\n

Maybe Palin didn’t realize that the photographer, Brian Adams, was depicting her this way. If so, he totally fucked her over. But I think she was on board with the concept. If Palin had assailed Runner’s World for making fun of her, I might now take her complaint about Newsweek seriously. She liked the Runner’s World spread, though. She thought it was appropriate. [NB:<\/strong> In an earlier version of this post, I misspelled Brian Adams’ name “Bryan Adams.” Today, I got an email from a firm called Web Sheriff telling me that they’d take legal action if I didn’t apologize to the rock star Bryan Adams and ACI for any injury I might have caused to his reputation. So, I sincerely apologize to Bryan Adams. I wouldn’t want my name associated with these ridiculous pictures either.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis original<\/span>)<\/p>\n

Take legal action? What the f$#@ is wrong with these folks?<\/p>\n

Needless to say, when folks like this (Web Sheriff, not Mr. Adams) engage in dick swinging like this, they deserve all the satire that they receive.<\/p>\n

As to Mr. Adams, I would suggest that you retain someone with a clue to protect your reputation on line, though the best way to improve your reputation would be to stop making record albums.<\/p>\n

BTW, it appears that Web Sheriff is a British firm, and Britain’s nutzo libel laws might very well be behind WS’s attitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course not. The only crime of Bryan Adams is that he makes crappy music. From a quick look at the Wiki, it appears that he does charity, though I think that his support of PETA is misguided, and so I have no hostility to him, though if one of his song’s comes on, I …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1048,972,1124,1050,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-justice","category-photographs","category-snark","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}