[quote name=\'starcade\' date=\'Jan 3 2005, 07:54 PM\']The reason that a lot of people don't give Steve a lot of benefit is because they don't like the guy and are, bluntly, jealous of his success. If they think they can do a better job, DO IT.
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Okay, time for the mini-rant again.
The reason I don't give Steve a lot of "benefit" is because his authority and fame are wholly a result of his own manipulation of the media. We have members on this very group who are far more knowledgeable about the subject than The Perfesser is, and we certainly have members who are better journalists, which is SUPPOSED to be Steve-O's area of expertise.
The Perfesser, quite simply, is the World's Foremost Authority only because he says so, and the media believes him. Any one of us could pump out press releases and maintain a Web site offering our self-professed considerable knowledge when something major like this happens, but most of us would rather invest the not-insignificant time in something more useful, like a social life. And the media, who doesn't and doesn't care to know any better, sucks it all up like a Shamrock Shake. And it snowballs.
So I salute Steve Beverly for manipulating the media into thinking he's someone important, but at the same time I point out, as someone who has worked in a newsroom for several years, that it's about as difficult as one of the llama questions on Millionaire.
