What’s the story with the new FOX News’ show about blogs called It’s Out There? It’s hosted by Michelle Malkin and Kristen Powers and premiered yesterday against the Oscars after a rerun of the 1/2Hour News Hour pilot. I can’t find it mentioned on either Malkin’s or Powers’ blog, and only found out about it to tivo it because Powers appeared on FOX and Friends Sunday morning. Did they not want bloggers to find out about it? Actually, having watched it, it wasn’t too much information I don’t know already from my regular blog reading, so maybe it’s aimed more at someone who doesn’t normally read blogs… like Cadet Happy (yes, he blogs for IMAO and I found out this weekend he’s never heard of the Edwards’ blogger scandal). The show has potential, but I wonder if I’ll see it again next weekend.
I guess, being this the blogosphere, I could just e-mail Malkin and Powers asking about the show instead of asking you people who probably don’t know anything more than I do and will just spout more unsubstantiated theories, but, if I make an effort to find out more information about a story, then I’m no better than a common journalists.
Eh, I’ll e-mail them. I don’t want you pestering them now that I mentioned it and then getting that blamed on me.
BTW, isn’t using Wikipedia as a source the same as using “some guy” as a source? I would surprised that any teacher who knows what Wikipedia is would allow it being using as a research source. Since everything on Wikipedia is supposed to be sourced, it’s still useful as a research tool if you explore all of its claims in an article.
UPDATE:
John Hawkins saw the show and had the same reaction I did, except, instead of not bothering to look up the third person’s name who appears on the show, I just didn’t even mention him.
UPDATE 2:
Duh. When I want to find out about a show on FOX News, I should turn to News Hounds. It’s a very interesting site; basically, it’s a bunch of liberals who hate FOX News who do nothing but watch FOX News and blog about it. You should see they’re dour humorlessness applied to Red Eye (Gutfeld made two of their picks for most outrageous FOX News quotes of the week); that combination is pure comedy gold.
Anyway, here is their take on It’s Out There. They agree with me that the concept is promising, and I agree with them that it would be better to feature more far left-wing blogs. That’s always entertaining.
UPDATE FINAL:
Never got a response from Malkin or Powers in e-mail and they still haven’t mentioned the show on their sites, so I can only assume some huge sort of conspiracy is going on here. Thus I will stop talking about this lest I be disappeared.
Frank, hasn’t Sarah taught you anything. Your now going to be blamed no matter what!
One of our suppliers were nice enough to adulterate a few batches of the raw material with wood. We of course asked them to figure out where and what the wood was from. They traced it back to a scraper handle that fell into their equipment.
As part of the investigation write-up they included the Wikipedia article on the types of wood used by their scraper supplier to back up a key point of the explaination of no harm due to the contamination.
The powers that be here were NOT amused by the probability that we would have to defend the use of wikipedia as a reference in an official investigation to the FDA.
I frequently get into online arguments with people who cite Wikipedia as an authoritative source. My response is usually, “If Wikipedia is the best you can do to source your argument, you have no real source.”
If I want to know on which episode of The Simpsons, Homer said, “mmmm. sacrilicious,” I go to Wikipedia. If I want to know the order of Presidents of the United States, Wikipedia is a nice backup.
If, however, I want to know anything so obscure that it requires an Internet search, Wikipedia is a little better than Google, in that I can, possibly, find authoritative source material.
I think Wikipedia is a little better than “some guy.” It’s really “a bunch of guys.”
The biggest problem with Wikipedia? It’s what I call “fact by consensus.” If you can convince enough people that something is true, it becomes true on Wikipedia.
I…MISSED…SEEING…MM…AND…KP…ON…TV……TOGETHER!!!!!
{gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes!}
Yeah, I’m a terrible source. I admit it.
Unlike, say, Reuters or the AP.
Dont be hard on Cadet Happy for not reading other blogs. The only blog I need to read is IMAO. Why would I want to read anything else?
//…and will just spout more unsubstantiated theories…//
Here’s one: you’re Franked in the head.
Dont be hard on Cadet Happy for not reading other blogs. The only blog I need to read is IMAO.
There’s no evidence he reads that either.
“spout more unsubstantiated theories”
I didn’t watch the show or even hear about it before now, but my guess is that Sean Hanity put the whole thing together. During the show there was probably a fund raiser for the troops and then a chimpanzee on rollerskates came out on stage. Now, of course, I must go put this stuff on wikipedia.
we received actual evidence this weekend that Cadet Happy doesn’t read IMAO. ever. or blog on it. we pay him to watch reality TV shows, apparently.
i thought the show would have been better if it had included blogs. they mentioned about 5 blogs by name, and everything else was “a blogger did this” and “a blogger did that” and very vague. i thought it was weird and confusing and pretty disjointed. i really wanted it to work, i wanted to like it. because even though i hate to admit it (don’t tell anyone), i like both of those girls (now STOP TALKING ABOUT MICHELLE MALKIN!).
they both looked better than Gwyneth Paltrow in her Oscar dress, though.
and the mystery blogger bit was kinda weird. why have a mystery blogger if you’re just going to reveal him at the end of the episode? if you emailed in who it was and got it right, was there a prize?
Shorter skirts for Michelle is all I want out of next weeks episode!!
I used to dream of to being a mystery blogger until I realized I already was one.
Dude, I just read their defense against the wild, baseless accusations of the Gorinator’s energy “hypocrisy”. Yes, it is true that the GoreHouse uses much more electricity than the average Christianista – HOWEVER, that’s only because the Goretasm has a much larger house than all you losers, so he needs the energy to make it all work. SEE??? It’s all just a conservative Reich-wing-nut conspiracy!