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06.11.10
Alan Black/David Henry Sterry, Spencer Hall. In the wake of Blogs With Balls 3, Ryan reads the news. Newcomer Shakey unveils his new game show, which might be the only game show on Earth dumber than “Deal Or No Deal.”
19:34. PUNTE interviews the authors of The Glorious World Cup: A Fanatics Guide, Alan Black and David Henry Sterry (Alan’s the one with the awesome Scottish accent. It would have been nice if I had figured this out before the interview had ended).
33:45. Spencer Hall drops by for a visit to discuss the backstory of his college football blog, “Every Day Should Be Saturday,” and also his confrontation during my panel at Blogs With Balls 3 (skip over the jump for video; roll to the 24:00 mark).
Hosted by Josh Zerkle and Brandon Moskal. Recorded June 9, 2010. Runs 64 minutes. Listen on the embeddable player, download the ep here and follow HOUSE OF PUNTE: The KSK Podcast on iTunes.
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Well, sometimes the market is a moron.
Spoken like a true moron.
@Alana: Have you ever seen the movie “Idiocracy?” You’re basically making the argument that our society becoming like that in Idiocracy is a good thing. “The market has spoken, so who cares if the site sucks?” Well, sometimes the market is a moron. That doesn’t mean that we should be ok with it.
Great discussion, Josh and Spencer.
Yes, posting the Sanchez story without verifying was “lazy,” I agree. But there IS value to what TBL does, how can you question that? He posts entertaining content, and sometimes his thinly-verified stories turn out to be true. Readers obviously find value in his sometimes-true posts, and so did FSV, who bought the site. It might not be personally valuable to you, but the market has spoken, no?
“If he’s a tabloid, he should be a good tabloid.” Why *should* he be anything, and what does “good” mean? He’s successful with what he’s doing currently, regardless of anyone’s value judgment about whether it’s good. If you want to speak out about TBL or others because you feel they’ve posted material that’s harmful to people, or unethical, or just bad and unfunny, I support that — we need people to call each other out so that readers, advertisers, leagues, etc can be educated about what to expect from different blogs. But I’m really having trouble understanding all of the talk about what blogs “should” do and “absolute standards” that would be impossible to enforce. If you think TBL has posted something bad, then you should call him out on it, and try to show the world how bad it is. In turn, someone else, like me, might speak out in defense of TBL (like I did for the Sanchez post). But a lot of the discussion post bwb3 sounds to me like people whining about how TBL should change its standards for others’ benefit. TBL is going to do what’s best for TBL.
Sooo, shakes is that tweaked out kid from “Almost Famous” right?
I’ll listen to this while watching the world cup opening game. It’ll be double the fun