Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Scoobie raises an excellent point .

One of the powers of the Blogosphere, as anyone with a Blog knows, is that if you comment regularly on the events of the day you can pretty easily get yourself up at the top of Google searches. This means that net searchers looking for the latest on, say, Coulter's new book, will often be directed to Blogs. And, this isn't limited to the "man on the street," but media professionals who may be hunting around desperately for source material for their next column.

Scoobie has made a minor call to arms - critiquing the next right wing crap book to come down the road, Pee-Wee Hannity's latest.** I admit to not having the patience to parse this bugger, but anyone - bloggers or non-bloggers - who wishes to spend the time critiquing the thing, please send them my way.


** Having not read the book, it could well be an opinionated but factually untouchable book for all I know. But, this is Sean Hannity -- who once lied to a Congressman who was on his show claiming that he was reading from an official government publication when in fact it was something written by a lobbyist. And then, him and his pathetic sidekick Colmes joked about it the next day.


UPDATE: Barney Gumble over at Media Whores Online Watch Watch Watch Watch questions Hannity's Bestseller status. It is true the NYT lists come out quite far in advance of their actual publication dates, but we shall see...