Friday, October 14, 2005

fnc bloggers I: the blogs do count

Several of the Fox personalities have taken on the joy and responsibility of maintaining blogs in the wake of blogging's popularity. Joy, because it's great fun (and good practice for turning out that definitively great American novel someday) to write one's thoughts with at least the hope that someone else is interested in them, and responsibility because once started a blog needs regular infusions of ideas, creativity and effort to maintain this illusion/delusion that others are enjoying it.

Some of these FNC blogs are mere placeholders, keeping time till that news person gets around to writing something (or more likely just making that person's name visible in yet a new space) and are worth little aside from being a decent source of links--I'm thinking of Sean Hannity's and Alan Colmes' here. Some contain well-written think pieces that seem to be an attempt on the newsperson's part to connect with watchers on a new level. One or two aren't quite sure what they want to be yet (that's OK, because mine's not certain of its identity yet either).

Blog 1: Friends Insider
I'd ignored this one because aside from checking the news headlines at the half hour marks, I usually ignore Fox & Friends. Turns out that Brian "please buy my book" Kilmeade, the quiet friend, writes this one, and aside from the fact that it usually/always ends with a plug for his book (which has only sold a gazillion copies already), it's not half bad. Although he sort of assumes the intellectual lightweight role on the show, he thinks quickly and has an offbeat and self-deprecating sense of humor. He writes tolerably well, punctuates and spells erratically only sometimes (I'm thinking that he has a very good editor for his books), and occasionally provides interesting behind the scenes anecdotes about the "friends". Did you know (or care) that E.D.Hill has a book coming out in the near future? Me neither!--but she apparently does. That Brian K is messy? Carries an overstuffed wallet? Has a "purse", otherwise known as a "man-bag"? Did you by any chance know that he'd written a book? That it's for sale?

More blog analyses soon.
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