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[edit]"Absolutely disgusting" reporter
[edit]Hopefully this question doesn't violate WP:BLP as the person I'm asking for is a public personality. Anyway, what is the name of the reporter in the "Absolutely Disgusting" picture? I've tried searching for his name but can't find any results. For reference, the picture is from a news report from the (presumably) now-defunct UPN News 9 (though I'm not sure if it was a national news broadcast or just a local one), so maybe his name is somewhere, just hard to find? Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 23:40, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
- For internet image macros, Know Your Meme is basically the Wikipedia of memes (or is it the TV-Tropes of Memes. Or maybe the IMDB of Memes. Whatever. It's a really decent reference work on the subject). They're pretty solid and well referenced in their research. here is their page on the macro. It doesn't actually name the reporter in question, but perhaps it will give you a start. --Jayron32 00:07, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- To be honest, that was the first site I went to when I began to be curious on the topic, and their lack of a mention of the name of said reporter was what inspired me to ask this here. Perhaps someone who's familiar with UPN can help me here? Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:09, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- Well, I'm spent on ideas then. KYM is really the top-level research site for memes. If they don't know, it may not be knowable... Maybe someone else knows of other places to look, but I'm spent... --Jayron32 01:41, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- To be honest, that was the first site I went to when I began to be curious on the topic, and their lack of a mention of the name of said reporter was what inspired me to ask this here. Perhaps someone who's familiar with UPN can help me here? Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:09, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- I can tell you UPN 9 is WWOR-TV (that article has a notable former staff section). Here's a clip of their 10 o'clock news, opening with "the Big Apple rotting". Not sure if that's a solid lead, but that Northeast blackout of 2003 was fairly disgusting. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:09, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- Here's their online contact form, and here is their address and phone number (as of 2009). You could try asking them. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:32, 7 August 2014 (UTC)