Quote Originally Posted by NeoCracker
The one pony who was running it, however, made it clear she wanted more stuff like the gum thing that was their first issue.

I'm not talking like the story they wanted to do on spike that got rejected, but just random stories about things people had done in public eye. There is a big difference in publishing a story about kids acting up in a store, and publishing someones diary entries. This episode tried to make them sound like the same thing.
I may have to watch it again to check if there really was a blur between the "good" stories the "bad" stories. The impression I got is that they created the illusion of them being the same as that's what the CMC were being lead to believe, and you the audience are supposed to be ahead of them, and by the tame they realize what you knew, they're blackmailed into it. I don't think they tried to make them seem the same thing, just that the characters thought they were at first, but I will rewatch it to be sure. Also the pony running the paper was not a CMC, and we've established that she's meant to be a bitch anyway.

Quote Originally Posted by GhandiOwnsYou
I dunno, I'm gonna have to buck the trend and say I thought this episode was pretty awesome. The lesson was vague and muddled, I'll openly support that complaint. The moral itself was a little off because they never went into the difference between gossip, news and invasion of privacy. For me though, the moment to moment one liners, facial expressions and wtf moments totally made up for any shortcomings. Spoilerseses Big Mac and Applejack swapping speech patterns when they got pissed was classic. Celestia stuffing her face? Rarity's several violent declarations? Twilight throwing up a forcefield out of spite? Poor little Scoots only able to hover her flank? It was pretty much wall to wall hilarity for me.
Like I say, I'll rewatch it to check if the lesson was done in an off way, as I always thought that they didn't need to explain it out loud. We got it, the CMC got it, the target audience got it. Did it need to actually be said by the characters, or would that just shove it down everyone's throats? That said I will watch it again to be sure, as this show has goofed on it's lessons before (The unfortunatly named "Mysterious Mare Do Well" is a good example, even though I seem to be the only one who actually liked the episode, I do see an obvious flaw with the way the moral was handled).

I agree with the episode being humorus though.

Did anyone notice that while Diamond Tiara was featured in enough scenes to be considered at least a semi-central character; her so called best friend Silver Spoon didn't appear once? It's probably because she wasn't on the paper team or something, but seeing her absence, and seeing that Diamond's personality appears to have gotten even worst now, reopens what I thought when I saw "Family Appreciation Day" which is; what if they did an episode where Diamond Tiara becomes so spoiled and so bitchy that even Silver Spoon can't stand her anymore? I personally think that would be a good episode, and would be good for the target audience as it will show them that you shouldn't be stuck up and everything (I personally view Silver Spoon to be the lesser of the two evils, if that makes sense).