In Popular Culture
In 2010 Facebook fan pages caused controversy in the Australian media. One of the pages in question was titled "Alf Stewart Rape Dungeon". It was regarded as a smear campaign against the actor and there were calls for the social networking site to be more closely monitored. The pages also featured false YouTube videos of Alf and Meagher's voice threatening to rape other cast members. The page gained 9500 users as fans. However, other sections of 'the media' have pointed out that the 'pro-rape' Facebook page is merely a joke, and not promotional.
Read more about this topic: Alf Stewart
Famous quotes containing the words popular and/or culture:
“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”
—Auguste Rodin (1849–1917)
“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)