The Cable Gamer has always kinda liked The Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar.
For two reasons:
First, she edits her section of "Huffpo" with a light touch--allowing plenty of room for wit and humor, in contrast to the politics section, which seems to consist mostly of unemployed Hollywood screenwriters who hate George W. Bush.
Second, she's a brunette, who has resisted the temptation to go blonde, even when the peroxide siren of TV started calling her.
So go, girl!
However, Ms. Sklar does have a few things to learn about The Cable Game. A case in point is this "Eat the Press" item of hers today.
Like all liberals these days, Sklar shills for MSNBC every chance she gets. That's fine, but she needs to know her facts. In her original post, she had fun with the fact that the new Fox Business NETWORK (FBN), not CHANNEL (FBC)--that's fact-correction #1--was advertising on MSNBC.
But what Rachel didn't understand is that such advertising, called a "local avail" occurs when time is bought on local cable systems. It is extremely common in media--all cable media. And in any case, the money for the ad did not go to MSNBC, but rather to the cable operator.
Interestingly, if you scroll through to the end of her post, Sklar acknowledges, sort of, that she got it wrong--in response to a challenge from Fox Business NEWS. So that's fact-correction #2.
Sklar didn't quite admit that she'd made a mistake, but she was, at least, nice enough to thank Fox for the "clarification." More like "correction," Rachel--but we'll let it go.
Just be more careful next time, because The Cable Gamer is always eager to like an honest brunette!
