Blog alert!!

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Judging books by their covers

Keith Olbermann blogs: "Of all of the clichéd maxims of life, “Don’t judge a book by its cover” seems to carry the most moral authority. To violate it implies unfairness to others, and the prospect of denying one’s self a great experience or interaction. And it may be time to scratch it from our language. Two weekend news stories suggest you can too judge books by their covers, with at least intermittent success.

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[WhirlyGirl]

1. Yay, he's blogging about Fox getting the runnaway bride story wrong!

. . . http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

[gkhouston]

2. I hadn't realized the couple-to-be (and perhaps now not-to-be?)

were already living together. I wonder if this was a long-term thing or a short-term "my lease is up for renewal, why waste the $$" thing. If they've been living together long-term, why on Earth would you plan a huge wedding with a gazillion attendants? At 32?? I guess I think of the enormous elaborate wedding as being something that you either do when you marry young and then retire :7 or when the family's rich and it's really sort of a get-together for the parents' business associates. I mean, was the big wedding some sort of fantasy fulfillment or were they trying to impress somebody or what?

on edit: And why is there such a big media flap over this, anyway?

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3. Why the flap?

"And why is there such a big media flap over this, anyway?"

I'm guessing because she's a white, family-values-type woman gone missing, and they were hoping for a Laci Peterson redux.
I've got the blog link up on O.o if anyone wants to go over there and comment on it with vox populi. (Sorry to beg, won't do it again.)
It's so great to see a REAL blog from him! On the weekend, no less!
Love ya, Keith!
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[Greylyn58]

4. I read on another thread that Nancy Grace was practically

foaming at the mouth on her show, Friday. "Oh the Fiance did it! Form a lynch mob"...that sort of thing.

Boy is she gonna be embarrassed. Then again, probably not!!

Personally, I think the media is all over this because we have no news media anymore. What we have is Tabloid Journalism. They jump from one sensational story to another, anything to keep from reporting real news.

Real news like the war in Iraq, more of our soldiers have died, the mass grave they've just found there, the fact that the Repugs are trying very hard to take away the filibuster, etc.

Keith is one of the few real news persons we have left.

[Berry Cool]

5. So true!

I was so delighted to see this today...yet another "real" blog, and yet another chance to needle the so-called "newscasters" who jumped the gun...

Our man doesn't always get it right--he sometimes reveals a certain vulnerability for believing hoaxes, I think because he wants to believe some of them...but his instinct when it comes to these real stories is often very accurate.

I'm glad this one just turned out to be a tempest in a teapot, rather than another horrible tabloid story.

But my cable is out--has been out all day long--and the cable company phone is on permanent busy-signal, of course--and if I can't get my Monday-night fix, all the blogs in the world won't stop my annoyance!

HEY CABLE COMPANY! FIX THE DAMN CABLE ALREADY!!!!