(andPOP) - A new blog, launched just last month, seems bent on destroying CTV's eTalk Daily by taking a close look at reporting accuracy on the popular entertainment news show.
eTalkeSucks (
etalkesucks.blogspot.com) is attracting a rapidly growing audience by picking apart every episode of the show and identifying misleading statements, exaggerations, and outright errors.
"This is a brand new blog that will dig through the crap that is eTalk Daily," wrote the blog's anonymous author, ePatrolman, in the introductory post. "Hosted by the network's ubiquitous Ben Mulroney and TV's worst TelePrompTer reader Tanya Kim, the show is infamous for two things: a) Blowing its own horn and b) Frequently reporting things that are misleading, inaccurate or just plain wrong."
One of the blog's main targets thus far is eTalk's overuse of the term "exclusive." In one example from the June 30 show, the blog quotes eTalk's coverage of Tori Spelling: "eTalk broke the Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling story first. And now only we can show you exclusive photos and tell you what's behind the Spelling family feud."
The photos, however, were irrelevant shots of Spelling and McDermott from a week earlier. And according to the blog, the rest of eTalk's report consisted of a near word-for-word regurgitation of Us Weekly's coverage -- without even identifying the source.
Another brow-raising incident (among dozens) came with the July 6 show. eTalk reported on "fresh mini-series casting news" about Shirley Douglas, saying the actress "will help bring a dramatized version of the 9/11 Commission report to life" in The Path to 9/11. As the blog notes, however, the mini-series was shot last summer in Toronto and Hamilton and is completely finished.
Though such lazy reporting is wholly depressing, eTalkeSucks turns it into a daily dose of comedic ranting. But if the popularity of the blog keeps spreading, eTalk's producers definitely won't be laughing.
