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Blogging already gives regular people a little too much power when it comes to determining what makes news. Downing Street Memo? C'mon, we all know how minor that story was — that's what the MSM avoided it, folks.
Now our very own NY1, where Queens are the Bronx suddenly become part of New York City, is introducing The Call. The new show lets viewers vote for programming by dragging and dropping news stories into the rundown — the same way producers do it in real life!
The program debuts on Monday and will air weeknights at 9pm, with news items scheduled based on voting averages.
Which means, if we can get VoteForTheWorst.com in on this, we can guarantee continuous coverage of Christian Slater groping or Lindsay Lohan club hopping.
[...] see, so it's very democratic, just like Web 2.0 pretends to be. It's also sort of like NY1's The Call, except it will have stories about pube trimming mishaps, which is currently the fifth top story on [...]