{"id":651669,"date":"2013-04-10T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=224514"},"modified":"2013-04-10T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:56:52","slug":"kevin-bacon-apology-issued-for-spoiler-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651669","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Bacon: Apology Issued For Spoiler Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<strong>Author&#8217;s Note: This post contains the same spoilers Bacon has apologized for<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p>Along with the instant, worldwide capabilities of the web has come the dreaded accidental <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/spoilers\">spoiler<\/a>.  In the past, fans of a TV series would have to actively search for spoilers, but now every Tweet or blog post brings with it the risk of having the latest twists ruined.<\/p>\n<p>This week, actor Kevin Bacon demonstrated this new reality perfectly, while also demonstrating why localized, staggered release schedules for content will only become more problematic as more of the world becomes connected.<\/p>\n<p>Bacon currently stars in the Fox <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/network-tv\">network TV<\/a> show <em>The Following<\/em>, a drama that follows an ex-FBI agent named Ryan Hardy as he helps his colleagues catch serial killers.  In the latest episode, which aired in the U.S. on April 8, it is revealed that Hardy himself may be a killer.<\/p>\n<p>The twist surprised fans, and Bacon retweeted one fan&#8217;s surprise to his Twitter page:<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> div.twitterditto321488050695835648 { background: #C0DEED url(http:\/\/a0.twimg.com\/profile_background_images\/302301497\/IMG_0859.JPG) no-repeat; padding: 20px; } div.twitterditto321488050695835648 a { color: #0084B4; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 { background: #fff; padding: 10px 12px 10px 30px; margin: 0; min-height: 48px; color: #000; font-size: 22px !important; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; line-height: 30px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.metadata { display: block; width: 100%; clear: both; margin-top: 8px; padding: 12px 0px; height: 55px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.follow-button { float: right; padding: 0 30px 0 0; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.metadata div.author { line-height: 20px; color: #333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 span.tweet { font-size: 22px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.metadata div.author img { float: left; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.timestamp { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; display: block; color: #999; margin: 10px 0 0 0; line-height: 25px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.timestamp a { color: #999; text-decoration: none; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.timestamp a > span { display: inline-block; width: 16px; height: 16px; background-image: url(\"http:\/\/images.ientrymail.com\/socialditto\/everything-spritev2.png\"); background-repeat: no-repeat; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.timestamp a.twitreply > span { background-position: 0px 3px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.timestamp a.twitreply:hover > span { background-position: -16px 3px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.timestamp a.favorite > span { background-position: -32px 2px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.timestamp a.favorite:hover > span { background-position: -48px 2px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.timestamp a.retweet > span { background-position: -80px 3px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 div.timestamp a.retweet:hover > span { background-position: -96px 3px; } p.indent { margin-left: 20px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 span.name { font-weight: bold; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 span.at-name a,div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 span.at-name a:visited, div.twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648 span.at-name a:hover { color: #999; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; } <\/style>\n<div class=\"twitterditto321488050695835648\">\n<div class=\"twitter-inner-ditto321488050695835648\">\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"follow-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jodigomes\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"false\"> Follow @jodigomes <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jodigomes\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3492691589\/9378da24f64bf376c98dc5cf76904a70_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span class=\"name\"> jodi gomes <\/span><br \/><span class=\"at-name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jodigomes\" class=\"at-name\">@jodigomes<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tweet\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinbacon\">@kevinbacon<\/a> is a murderer too! Nice twist <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kevwilliamson\">@kevwilliamson<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thefollowingfox\">@thefollowingfox<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23JoeCarol\">#JoeCarol<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"timestamp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?in_reply_to=321488050695835648\" class=\"twitreply\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Reply<\/a> &nbsp;&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/retweet?tweet_id=321488050695835648\" class=\"retweet\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Retweet<\/a> &nbsp;&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/favorite?tweet_id=321488050695835648\" class=\"favorite\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Favorite<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jodigomes\/status\/321488050695835648\" title=\"Tue Apr 09 05:01:38 +0000 2013\">1 day ago<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/download\/iphone\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter for iPhone<\/a>&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/socialditto.com\/\">@socialditto<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, fans of the show in some countries that aren&#8217;t the U.S. haven&#8217;t gotten the chance to watch that episode yet.  They immediately let Bacon know he had screwed up, in the polite way that angry people on the internet normally do.<\/p>\n<p>Bacon has now issued an apology, which in includes a short Vine video in which the actor issues a repeated mea culpa:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vine-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/btqAZvp5OVY\/embed\/postcard\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.vine.co\/static\/scripts\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> div.twitterditto321636112785358848 { background: #C0DEED url(http:\/\/a0.twimg.com\/images\/themes\/theme1\/bg.png) no-repeat; padding: 20px; } div.twitterditto321636112785358848 a { color: #0084B4; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 { background: #fff; padding: 10px 12px 10px 30px; margin: 0; min-height: 48px; color: #000; font-size: 22px !important; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; line-height: 30px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.metadata { display: block; width: 100%; clear: both; margin-top: 8px; padding: 12px 0px; height: 55px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.follow-button { float: right; padding: 0 30px 0 0; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.metadata div.author { line-height: 20px; color: #333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 span.tweet { font-size: 22px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.metadata div.author img { float: left; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.timestamp { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; display: block; color: #999; margin: 10px 0 0 0; line-height: 25px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.timestamp a { color: #999; text-decoration: none; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.timestamp a > span { display: inline-block; width: 16px; height: 16px; background-image: url(\"http:\/\/images.ientrymail.com\/socialditto\/everything-spritev2.png\"); background-repeat: no-repeat; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.timestamp a.twitreply > span { background-position: 0px 3px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.timestamp a.twitreply:hover > span { background-position: -16px 3px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.timestamp a.favorite > span { background-position: -32px 2px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.timestamp a.favorite:hover > span { background-position: -48px 2px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.timestamp a.retweet > span { background-position: -80px 3px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 div.timestamp a.retweet:hover > span { background-position: -96px 3px; } p.indent { margin-left: 20px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 span.name { font-weight: bold; } div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 span.at-name a,div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 span.at-name a:visited, div.twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848 span.at-name a:hover { color: #999; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; } <\/style>\n<div class=\"twitterditto321636112785358848\">\n<div class=\"twitter-inner-ditto321636112785358848\">\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"follow-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinbacon\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"false\"> Follow @kevinbacon <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinbacon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2820215998\/06d259ba5745561f4b4088c97159cf68_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span class=\"name\"> Kevin Bacon <\/span><br \/><span class=\"at-name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinbacon\" class=\"at-name\">@kevinbacon<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tweet\"> To all the fans abroad and late watchers I&#8217;m truly sorry I retweeted a spoiler. I just wasn&#8217;t thinking. Won&#8217;t happen again. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23MyBad\">#MyBad<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"timestamp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?in_reply_to=321636112785358848\" class=\"twitreply\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Reply<\/a> &nbsp;&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/retweet?tweet_id=321636112785358848\" class=\"retweet\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Retweet<\/a> &nbsp;&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/favorite?tweet_id=321636112785358848\" class=\"favorite\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Favorite<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/kevinbacon\/status\/321636112785358848\" title=\"Tue Apr 09 14:49:59 +0000 2013\">1 day ago<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/download\/iphone\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter for iPhone<\/a>&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/socialditto.com\/\">@socialditto<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>(Image courtesy Genevieve\/Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=irttqhlryg0:dY3BXfe3jUk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=irttqhlryg0:dY3BXfe3jUk:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=irttqhlryg0:dY3BXfe3jUk:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=irttqhlryg0:dY3BXfe3jUk:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=irttqhlryg0:dY3BXfe3jUk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=irttqhlryg0:dY3BXfe3jUk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=irttqhlryg0:dY3BXfe3jUk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=irttqhlryg0:dY3BXfe3jUk:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=irttqhlryg0:dY3BXfe3jUk:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/irttqhlryg0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Author&#8217;s Note: This post contains the same spoilers Bacon has apologized for] Along with the instant, worldwide capabilities of the web has come the dreaded accidental spoiler. In the past, fans of a TV series would have to actively search for spoilers, but now every Tweet or blog post brings with it the risk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}