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Originally Posted by Azure
Apparently he has checked out of his hotel in Hong Kong. Some government member in Iceland offered to help him. That would be like icing on the cake.
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Two of our pirate party parliament members and founders of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (which was in part founded to support and give extraordinary freedoms and rights to whistle blowers and reporters.)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygree...r-seek-asylum/
They are already looking at the asylum papers for him, but as of yet he has not contacted anyone here in Iceland.
My friend Smári at the pirate party was contacted by fox news on the phone, quite hilariously this was his reply to them:
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A FOX person called me earlier, interview request. Thought I didn't know of them. I said, "I'm aware of you. I watch you with abject horror"
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Also a bit more about the interview they wanted to do:
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Her opening line was "hello, is there anybody there that speaks english?"
I was going to go on, but then on the last minute they a) showed technical ineptitude of a degree I've never seen in a TV channel, and b) said they'd edit a 5 minute interview down to 30 seconds, which is something - given Fox's bias towards idiocy and the nature of the issue, I could not consent to.
She: "Could you stay on the phone so we can relay the questions to you that way?"
Me: "Then I'm going to have to hold the phone to my head during the interview - do you want that? Won't it look a bit odd?"
She: "He'll ask you a question, then you put it down and answer the question, and then pick it back up again, okay?"
Me: "Wait, what?"
... thinking about all the times today I've done TV interviews with, like, bidirectional audio with the host plus a producer or team of producers speaking in my ear as well.
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