Bill Werde: "On 'Angela Cheng, Lady Gaga, & the Culpability of Media

[Illuminati Freak 2,432]

Gawker is all over this story now. The thrist is real.

 

http://gawker.com/a-tale-of-two-lady-gaga-trolls-1555731030

[lugh121 50]

Angela Cheng may be paid by Perez, but she is not Perez. Before she started bashing Gaga, she used to bash Madonna and Katy Perry.

but back in the day Perez also bashed Madonna 

It's obviously Perez. The language they both use as well as their writing style is exactly the same.

 

 

this, the meltdown tweets have the same style like the ones Perez  have when he is pressed about gaga

[BrooklynFame 16]

Well well well

[AgusPop 4,141]

I tried to sum it up for you

 

On “Angela Cheng,†Lady Gaga, and the Culpability of Media

My hope was that I’d never have to address the legitimacy or even the existence of “Angela Cheng.†But I got a call today from a BuzzFeed editor who led me to believe that they were moving ahead with a story about “Cheng†that included me, with or without my participation.

Almost all of the articles under the Cheng byline, as well as those by another “reporter,†“Sabrina O’Connor,†had two things in common: they seemed to me to be laser-focused on disparaging Lady Gaga, and they seemed to me to regularly misrepresent facts and details.

Eventually, I reached out to some friends at Examiner.com’s parent company, AEG (the giant tour promoter). I explained that many of these stories appeared to contain libel and/or defamation, and gave them a handful of offending examples.

AEG said they’d have someone look into the matter, and very shortly thereafterâ€â€and very much to AEG’s and the Examiner’s creditâ€â€the stories disappeared from the site. At some time after that, “Cheng†appeared to stop contributing to Examiner.com.

All of this would be fine and well and water under the bridge, except for two nagging problems.

On November 17, 2013, “Sabrina O’Connor†posted a story on Examiner.com that claimed Lady Gaga’s Interscope label had spent $25 million to promote her album ARTPOP which had been released 11 days earlier.

Within days that number had been repeated in seemingly any outlet that could credibly cover such a matter: Business Week. New York magazine. Business Insider. A couple of weeks later, the New York Post published a razor-sharp hatchet job on Gaga, once again, floating the $25 million figure.

(Credit where it’s due: the only outlet I could find that called bullshi.t, and did it the very next day, was Roger Friedman at Showbiz 411.)

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It was this realization that led me to make a few phone calls:

(After all, maybe I was wrong: maybe “Cheng†and “O’Connor†were just hard-working journalists in modern times, using new, user-generated platforms that were availed to them to create impactful work In Cheng’s bio on Examiner.com, which I can no longer find on site, she listed herself as “a recent Communication Media Studies graduate of the University of Oklahoma,†and “the school newspaper’s pop music writer.

But a University of Oklahoma representative told me on the phone in January that there had been no “Angela Cheng†to enroll or graduate within any timeframe that could reasonably be construed as “recent.â€

....

“Sabrina O’Connor,†meanwhile, represented herself in her Examiner.com bio as “a recent journalism graduate of Cal State Long Beach†and “a pop music writer for the university and local city newspapers.â€

 

 

Again,  a school official told me there was no record to support the notion of enrollment or matriculation of a student by that name</span>. And again, no one at the Daily 49erâ€â€Cal State’s student paperâ€â€was able to find evidence of a contributor by that name. As well, the photographer who had taken the picture that Cheng was using to identify herself publically shared that the image was being used without his permission.

 

So who is Angela Cheng? I have no idea, nor do I have the time or the inclination to report it out. There is no shortage of internet rumors regarding high-profile bloggers with an axe to grind against Lady Gaga. But I’d be no better than what I’m decrying if I named names on such flimsy support.

 

This is not scandalous, but just an old-fashioned thing called the truth. As the above can attest, sometimes it’s stranger than fiction. You just need to be very, very careful about where you choose to read it. 

-BILL WERDE

 

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[daviddarko 144]

Slay Bill

 

 

Take that Pigrez and Co (Madonners)

 

[AgusPop 4,141]

can someone summarize this?

 

I summarized for you.    http://gagadaily.com/index.php?/topic/96612-bill-werde-on-angela-cheng-lady-gaga-the-culpability-of-media/?view=findpost&p=4684496

[Allison M 357]

She is tweeting Perez waayy too much to not have an association with him. No doubt Perez is doing this to hurt Gaga indirectly. He's probably paying this person, then promoting them to get views.

I hope Bill can find out for sure who it is and get them to stop. It's disgusting, sick, and pathetic to spend so much hating someone and trying to bring them down. Especially such a sweet girl like our Gagaloo.

[monstronic 23]

I love how he ended with the Perez/"Chang" twitter exchange. BAM.

[Sonic 21]

 

 

According to Angela's profile, she's interviewed "such stars as P!nk, Justin Bieber, and Britney Spears". Is there a way to contact these three people to confirm this? Like their official Twitter or Facebook? (Dude, she can't even spell Bieber right!) 

 

There's another "user" on Examiner whose name eludes me at this point (I think it's either Peter or Edward) who is a former DJ who knows a thing or two about the music industry --- or so he claims. Anyway, this guy says he heard about Gaga and her team supposedly hijacking Bionic's sales. In the same article, he had a "source" talked to Akon, who is identified as Gaga's "friend"  . This was back in the days of the "Gaga vs. Christina" mess which, as we all know was a result of the media taking a quote by the latter out of context. Out of curiosity I looked through every article this guy's written, and every piece he's written on Gaga makes her out to look bad (like what Angela's been doing as seen in the above screen cap). 

 

Something has to be done about these phony journalists, and it needs to be done now.