Modified On November 13, 2008
“Snubbed DAILY SHOW Fan On Rampage” is the line on the DrudgeReport.com that links to an NBCNewYork.com article that details the travails of Sharilyn Johnson, a Canadian journo and FOS that got shut out of the dual Election Night taping of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
Johnson made reservations seven months in advance, took some vacation days, volunteered for Obama and flew to NYC from Toronto to sit in the audience for the special event only to watch as VIP’s were given top priority and mere fans were shut out. Repeated attempts to get some sort of justice or an apology were rebuffed.
She did what any journalist would do– she tapped out an essay on just how burned she felt and put it up on her blog. The tale of woe got picked up by the folks at Huffington Post.
Then, NBC in New York ran something on it today.
The mocking tone of the NBC/Around Town item is gentle compared to the comments on Gawker, which ran an item on her HuffPo piece. Johnson’s retelling attracted many sympathetic comments and just as many that were brutal, ugly and unnecessarily harsh and personal.