Again, folks, as you learned here, exclusively, Matt Price is staging a media blackout.

Matt Price blacks out
[Price: I don’t have to explain ANYTHING. Here’s why.]

Well, now Matt has come forward to let us all know why he has made the decision not to come forward at all. Matt, you have the floor, and unlike the rest of the media, I will pledge not to redact your words unless absolutely necessary.

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It has come to my attention that some people are curious as to why I, Matt Price, am imposing a media black-out. It came to my attention not via the media, as I have a self-imposed media black-out, but through a chance run-in with desperate call to my exclusive representative, Adam Felber on the picket line today. Otherwise, I had no way of knowing that people are curious because as you know, I have had no contact with the media since the black-out began. Full disclosure - I have had contact with one arm of the media. I am in a Yahoo fantasy basketball league, and I constantly check the status of my players, how they played the night before, etc. But when I do check, which is far more often than I care to admit, I make sure not to read the Yahoo News, no matter how enticing. My fantasy team isn’t doing very well, and I need to make adjustments because it’s still early in the season, and we can make trades and so forth. But that’s not important right now. What’s important is why I, Matt Price, have imposed a media black-out, and that I am willing to lift this black-out in order to e-mail Adam Felber and tell him why this self-imposed media black-out is in effect I have given all title to my creative output to him and him alone.

What it comes down to is the simple fact that the media has let me down in the past month. They haven’t covered the writers strike with much accuracy, if at all. The strike affects hundreds of thousands of people in Los Angeles, the second largest city in the country. On local news, you’re more likely to find a story about a cat who sounds like Ray Charles when he purrs. That’s actually a bad example because that would be an interesting cat, dare I say, one worthy of a lengthy expose. Especially if he could sing. That would be fascinating. A cat that sings like Ray Charles! Ha. But since that feature story is highly unlikely, the media non-Felber media has been abysmal with regards to the fact that Hollywood has essentially been shut down. Thus, I refuse to talk to them, no matter how many calls and e-mails and faxes which I have been receiving. Yet it is important to me to contact the people who are concerned about my self-imposed media black-out even if I have no way of knowing whether or not they are concerned because I can’t read Adam’s blog on account of my aforementioned self-imposed media black-out. But in my heart I will know that they will know why I do what I do, just as I will know that Dallas Mavericks center Dirk Nowitzki is way below his points per game average.

If the members of the media are reading this, and they want to get a hold of me, I’d be happy to temporarily lift the self-imposed media black-out to explain my concerns, but as soon as I’ve done this, I will go back to my firm status of blacking you out. Also, I was hoping to make a video and put it on YouTube which would explain my position in detail. I will not watch this video, nor will I comment on it, for YouTube is clearly ensconced in the belly of the media, and unlike Jonah, I do not plan on diving into the belly of the beast. But if it helps my presence in the media helps me elaborate on my position of not talking to the media, then so be it. I don’t have a camera or editing equipment so if anyone reading this does, I would appreciate your help. I don’t know how you’d contact me, as I’m still in the throes of this media black-out, but perhaps you could tell Adam who I might randomly run into again represents me exclusively and is entitled to all profits that may stem from this blackout.

The Golden State Warriors are about to tip off against the Utah Jazz, and I have Stephen Jackson on my team so I should go. But I appreciate your wanting to know more about why I’m doing what I’m doing. It’s people like you who keep me strong, whoever you are. Hopefully, Adam (a member of the media which I’m blacking out) will print this e-mail verbatim. I trust him for the most part, even though he’s part of the problem.

Until I lift the self-imposed media black-out, I am…
Matt Price [An Adam Felber Joint]