The Search author John Battelle (disclaimer: BoingBoing's business manager, among other things) writes:
Good lord, has it come to this? That was my first thought upon getting off the plane here in Seattle, and seeing CNN – f*cking CNN! – running clips of David Hasselhoff reverse puking a Wendy's Steakhouse Double Melt in a crowded airport during high rush hour (6 pm).Yes, it has come to this. Why am I, defender of all things Internet (see my views on NBC making the Va Tech material available), offended by seeing on CNN what I can freely see on the Internet? This may not be in any way insightful, and I'm sure someone has put it far more elegantly, but it comes down to this one simple insight: What I see on the Internet, I *choose* to see, and in particular, I choose to see it *privately* – in other words, I see it by choice. But when I'm walking with 1000 other souls through a public thoroughfare, and a poor, sick, f*cked up man is losing his dignity on CNN, well, it strikes me the standards are different.
Reader comment: Brett Burton says,
Just read your post about the Hasselhoff puking clip. …Am I the only one sees what's really going on here?!! This is an obvious frameup perpetrated by Michael Knight's old enemy, the evil doppelganger Garthe Knight!
Someone needs to get K.I.T.T. out of storage and back on the street so we can find where Michael is being held prisoner!
Eddie Codel from Geek Entertainment TV says,
Just saw your post on The Hoff's spectacle being broadcast wide on CNN. I am following up
on the reader comment from Brett Burton who says 'Someone needs to get K.I.T.T. out of
storage and back on the street so we can find where Michael is being held prisoner!'We found KITT. He's no longer in storage, he does miss Michael and apparently still has
very strong feelings for him. Irina gets the scoop.
