Winner of the Peep Diaries City Lights Contest

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So the challenge was to go to the City Lights fan page on FaceBook, become a fan, and enter a link or a description of something you think epitomizes Peep Culture. The winner gets an advance copy of my new book The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors.

And the winner is…El Carew Costello of Toronto. For not 1, not 2, but 3 entries:

First, this Fox morning show broadcast featuring three chirpy hosts enthusiastically presenting footage of a polar bear in a zoo chewing on the leg of a woman who, for unknown reasons, jumped into bear habitat.

Then, he offered up this possibly fake but who really knows surveillance footage of a man exploding in office rage and really taking it out on a computer monitor.

And for good measure, he ended it all up with the most disturbing video of the 3 (which is saying a lot). A grisly car crash caught on tape? A high school punch up? Naw. It’s a BBC news clip on the story of the father of one of the child actors in Slumdog Millionaire who may or may not have tried to sell the kid to a journalist. (Who was doing what exactly?) Comes complete with the girl’s mom and step mom pulling each other’s hair while cameramen film the domestic violence.

Thanks El Carew, well deserved victory for plumbing the depths of Peep and bringing several great examples of the intersection of Peep Culture and so-called “news” to our attention.

Runners-up:

SB Stokes of San Francisco: Flickr photos are yet another dimension of what is referred to as “community”, but what is really a very deep level of reciprocal “peeperism”, exhibitionist and voyeur wed through yet another digital channel…

Amy Kosh of Nyack, NY: Very typical American media and public losing their moral compasses. Offering Blagoyovich his own radio talk show, an offer to also be on a reality show and all because the guy pulled illegal moves in government and was incredibly stupid and u ethical? Makes me question why anyone tries to do the right thing these days, morally speaking.

So, should we do it again soon? What else do you have for me?

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