[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'190032\' date=\'Jul 7 2008, 04:48 PM\']
I have huge problems with professional game show fans representing themselves as, or being represented as, authorities on the subject. Want to know something about Hollywood Squares? Go to Merrill Heatter or Jay Redack or Steve Radosh or our own Brian Conn. Guys like the Perfesser are outsiders to the industry and their information comes largely from hearsay and Internet mythology IMO.[/quote]
Thing is, you could say that about any reporter, journalist, historian or biographer. Anybody who writes about anything that they're not directly involved in, and that's a lot of writers.
Basically, Steve was writing a game show blog before the term "blog" existed. HE saw it as a journalistic exercise because that's his background, and his style of writing reflected that. Even that whole third-person thing. But it never was, mostly because (as I've said many times before) he didn't have an editor checking and controlling his content. Still, late nineties, Millionaire changes the landscape, and he's right-place right-time perfect talking head, a university professor old enough and media savvy enough and with just enough cred not to come across as a fanboi.
