Blogfrica vs. Mainstream

The lead story on Deadspin and far too many other places this morning is the news out of Hollywood that veteran World Wide Lemur gasbag Chris Berman will get his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Now, the first point to make about this is that it's not exactly the honor you might think it is. There's over two dozen people that will be joining the leather enthusiast and nickname peddler this year alone, and you'd have to be some kind of showbiz ***** to recognize all of the names. There's some Cirque du Soleil guy here, for pity's sake. But the bigger point is that there's really no stronger point of differentiation between, for like of a better term, What The Casual Public Likes and What The Hardcore Fan Tolerates. To the latter group, Berman is everything that's wrong, wrong, wrong with the network: an outdated assclown (when every single cast member of Hogan's Heroes is dead, will you stop referring to it?) who makes himself the story, rather t...