Day: March 13, 2009

This week's installment of "In other news…" examines a few mainstream media stories over the past week that took the time to cover comedy, but could have spent just a bit more time asking questions before going into print. Or, as the recently departed radio broadcaster Paul Harvey would say, it's time for…the…rest…of the story. — The AP yesterday wrote an ode to How I Met Your Mother's love of fake Web sites, and while that's interesting and all, there's no mention of how this is becoming more widespread (The Office, SNL, 30 Rock are among others that spring to mind). More importantly than achieving network balance, though, I wish there had been an exploration into how much time, effort and money was going into creating and maintaining all of these sitcom offshoots. — The Wrap made a big to-do a couple of Fridays ago about how comedian Frank Nicotero has been able to get millions of viewers to his most popular "Primetime in No Time" wrap-ups of TV on Yahoo! Once again, it's a nice profile piece, but again, it could have used some added perspective or sourcing. I wouldn't quite call Nicotero an Average Joe, as they did, and his show is sponsored by Verizon and pushed by Yahoo! Nothing about the What the Buck show on YouTube that really did allow a previously-unknown guy to make...