Sydney Watson v. Blaze Media - Glenn Becks company sued by Youtuber in aftermath of Jack Murphy "cuck article", over the antics of Elijah Schaffer, another youtuber.

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Mister Dongs said:
At least the sexual harassment stopped.

Oh right, since for some reason it wasn't mentioned before, the You Are Here channel was renamed and handed over by Blaze Media to another Texas local, "professional troll" Alex Stein.
Which I'm sure is going just fine.
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Venti was right. Perhaps for the wrong proximate reasons and handled in a pretty cancerous way, but when she confronted him about being degenerate she wasn't wrong. He has since gone on to a greatest hits of cringe homoerotic coomer stunts, one incident involving a banana and his black stunt retard's mouth. My personal tinfoil is that he's just being locked-down by The Blaze until after the election then they'll cut him loose (edit: to keep a very effective man-on-the-street political provocateur off his game). I find it suspicious that his show is more scripted then You Are Here when the dude doesn't necessarily have weak banter or interview skills.

Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
He didn't actually go to Julliard? Right?
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Cecil Says is thoroughly full of shit about basically everything. His screen name is kind of brilliant in that regard.
 
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Ike Aim said:
I find it suspicious that his show is more scripted then You Are Here when the dude doesn't necessarily have weak banter or interview skills.
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He said during a more traditionally formatted podcast that he does on Sunday nights a few weeks ago that he's doing the Prime Time show like this because he wants it to be something different. I like Alex Stein, personally, but the show just doesn't really suit his style of comedy. He's a lot like Sam Hyde in terms of his comedic strengths. He's also still doing the IRL trolling he's really good at, just not as often.
 
6MillionCoofs said:
She claimed originally they they weren’t her choice of guests and Blaze turned around and showed that she approved the ones she was taking issue with.

They also dropped the messages that showed everything she asked they do regarding the issues she had they did. It wasn’t enough. Because it never is.
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Did they release the full messages or just what is in their response?
Here's a few exerts from text messages in their response, mainly covering a working relationship with management:
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Fuentes:
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Document is in the opening post.


To the first claim, Sydney alleging that she had growing discomfort with a show is different from telling her boss off. One can still do their job, suggest ideas, organize shows, and accept feedback, while also expressing "discomfort" separately. Sparse text messages without context prove little.

Sydney on Fuentes:
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In The Blaze's response they frame Sydney's problem as one with booking Fuentes in the first place, and allege that she agreed to have the Mexican Catboy on You Are Here.
However, her complaint is that Shaffer was a man-child that was impossible to work with, alleging some mind reading as to his motivations, and that the Blaze did little to nothing to reign him in. Fuentes and Murphy are brought up to to emphasize that Shaffer behaved improperly. Along those lines Sydney alleges:
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Interestingly she does not name these guests that were Super-Giga-Sexist. I don't know, but I guess that alleging that someone contributed to the sexist environs of a workplace would bring them into the suite, or be libelous as this is a sworn statement. Maybe the law literate types can elucidate.

The Blaze shifting the "Shaffer unilaterally booked guests" claim to "Sydney agreed to Fuentes and Murphy" when they are separately listed in the Summary of Facts is suspicious and reeks of narrative shifting via sprinkles.
 
Ike Aim said:
Venti was right. Perhaps for the wrong proximate reasons and handled in a pretty cancerous way, but when she confronted him about being degenerate she wasn't wrong. He has since gone on to a greatest hits of cringe homoerotic coomer stunts, one incident involving a banana and his black stunt retard's mouth. My personal tinfoil is that he's just being locked-down by The Blaze until after the election then they'll cut him loose (edit: to keep a very effective man-on-the-street political provocateur off his game). I find it suspicious that his show is more scripted then You Are Here when the dude doesn't necessarily have weak banter or interview skills.


Cecil Says is thoroughly full of shit about basically everything. His screen name is kind of brilliant in that regard.
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Alex's mentor is bubba the love sponge the fucking degenerate loser who let hulk hogan fuck his wife and then sold the sextape to gawker which then bankrupted the site.

Alex said he was trying to make the show like vintage howard stern shock jock shit, with his own retarded wack pack and doing faggot kayfabe abusing his producer. Its all terrible its all so disingenuous and skincrawling cringe.

Sad i really liked Alex's independent conspiracy castle podcast, not his blaze show .
 
@jalopy: No. Just what’s in the response so far.

Of course this shifted blame. That’s what you do. Someone says you did somethong, you claim they did it.

And they are right to. Because as shown, if Sydney has enough power to book guests that just a casual look would tell you how horrid they are she could absolutely have stopped the later guests too if she’d really wanted to.
 
6MillionCoofs said:
@jalopy: No. Just what’s in the response so far.

Of course this shifted blame. That’s what you do. Someone says you did somethong, you claim they did it.

And they are right to. Because as shown, if Sydney has enough power to book guests that just a casual look would tell you how horrid they are she could absolutely have stopped the later guests too if she’d really wanted to.
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Agreed, the response is supposed to shift blame, or that blame simply cannot exist as no fault has occurred.

My issue is narrative shifting. Sydney Watson did not allege she had an issue with Fuentes and Murphy being booked, she alleged an issue with how Elijah Shaffer handled himself around those interviews. So when The Blaze claims she was fine with Fuentes and Murphy being booked it doesn't directly address her claims, in fact it combines two claims into one even though they are separate. Claim one being that Elijah Shaffer behaved improperly around the Fuentes and Murphy interviews and claim two being that Elijah, after these interviews took place and a long break, booked several Totally-Mega-Sexist guests without Sydney's input.

This is in the context of a motion that tried to bring the case into arbitration. What is in the fact section could have directly addressed Watson's claims and the stronger it was the better The Blaze's position will be in settlement negotiations.
 
jalopy said:
Agreed, the response is supposed to shift blame, or that blame simply cannot exist as no fault has occurred.

My issue is narrative shifting.
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Well you’ve got her claiming to be capable of booking and handling hersepf. The point of bring up the Jack etc is she’s claiming that Elijah went and invited more people like that. And she had an issue with that. But not Jack or Nick dispite even the most basic check would have told everyone they were just as bad. And yet they were ok. Why? That’s why it’s brought up. It questions her character while pointing out they don’t control guests the hosts do.

Since she doesn’t bring up other names, she may not have been specific with who so Blaze may not yet know what exchanges they have that can disprove her. Probably have a good idea. But you don’t drop that till you have to. Wait till she commits to specifics,

It’s scummy of Blaze but when ‘s she’s sueing you because no one wants to touch her with a 10 foot pole, due to frankly her not actually being very talented, you are going to shift the blame as much as you can.

Honestly this is why you shouldn’t hire random YouTube talent.
 
WhiteNight said:
The OP has the same image (Picture8.png) twice. And it skips then to Picture10.png, so I assume one is missing.
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Its not. I was fighting DDoS while trying to post the OP, and it required going back at least 3 or 4 times for the "Post Thread" button to work. Some attachments got over written as I scrambled to get everything in order, which led to the file stamps being misnamed. My first couple of attempts got sucked into the black hole and I had to start all over again using Copy/Paste and scrambling to see what actually made it to the forum server and what didn't.

The pictures are mostly highlights for this reason, but the full docs are at the bottom in the PDF files.
 
Scheduling order was released a few days ago.

Amended pleadings due Jan 22, 2024.

Discovery Completion done by August 30, 2024.

Mediation required, must be completed by August 30, 2024.

Trial date set for Jan 22, 2025.
 

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kickingstones said:
Alex's mentor is bubba the love sponge the fucking degenerate loser who let hulk hogan fuck his wife and then sold the sextape to gawker which then bankrupted the site.

Alex said he was trying to make the show like vintage howard stern shock jock shit, with his own retarded wack pack and doing faggot kayfabe abusing his producer. Its all terrible its all so disingenuous and skincrawling cringe.

Sad i really liked Alex's independent conspiracy castle podcast, not his blaze show .
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Alex's show a couple weeks ago was actually really good, it was the sort of thing you might have seen on MTV or even G4 around 20 years ago. Also, he still does a more typical live podcast on Sunday nights if you want to watch something like that.
 
mindlessobserver said:
Scheduling order was released a few days ago.

Amended pleadings due Jan 22, 2024.

Discovery Completion done by August 30, 2024.

Mediation required, must be completed by August 30, 2024.

Trial date set for Jan 22, 2025.
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I guess we can expect a settlement announcement some time in the summer. Discovery will find something spicy and Beck will write whatever check he needs to to get the fuck out of this.
 
We get a resolution to this? I can't find a shred of news on it.
 
mindlessobserver said:
I check in on it now and then, Just a bunch of pretrial motion practice and scheduling conferences. Since its being run by Attorneys, things will stay boring until we get to actual court decisions. It still on going. Its possible there are settlement talks delaying things.

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I updated the docket on CourtListener and it looks like the case was referred to mediation shortly before Christmas with a deadline of August 30, 2024:


So the docket is likely to move slowly or not at all until then.
Public Disrespector said:
My prediction of a settlement this summer remains live.
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Personally I'm a little surprised they haven't settled already: Discovery is likely to turn up things the defendants don't want going public, and after August 30 they lose the confidentiality that mediation provides.
 
Kind of funny watching Sydney produce a video about how Corporate Feminism ruins everything when she has this lawsuit going.

I kind of find it interesting that she entered into a business partnership with Elijah Schaffer, who she fully knew what he was like before getting involved. Then cries to the courts that she is a poor abused employee.

Of course, I am not a lawyer and California laws are crazy. Maybe the courts will decide that she is an employee. But everyone knows that this will result in a settlement so long as Sydney isn't a complete moron with bad council.

I also predict that the court appointed deadline for discovery and mediation of August 30th will be extended as parties kick the can down the road.
 
UncleTusky said:
Personally I'm a little surprised they haven't settled already: Discovery is likely to turn up things the defendants don't want going public, and after August 30 they lose the confidentiality that mediation provides.
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Well be surprised no longer sir, because while the rest of the world was busy, this case appeared to reach a quiet end.

Link to case records:

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/47735758/WATSON_v_Blaze_Media_LLC

I predicted a settlement by summer, and by God we got there. After The Blaze failed in their attempt to keep the embarrassing discovery out of the public record, and not wanting all of the shit Elijah Schaffer did that they did nothing about being broadcast far and wide, they came up with some number big enough to get Watson to settle, and on July 1st they notified the judge that they had done so, along with a joint motion to keep the terms private.

An extremely predictable outcome, and I am forever saddened that Schaffer's lunatic antics won't become part of the public record, but at least the Blaze had to pay out as a penalty for allowing it to go on.
 
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