I just wanted to pop in quickly and let y’all know that I just watched the Nightline segment about Heather Armstrong from last night. And can I just say, very loudly for the world to hear, that it was WONDERFUL! I have recorded just about every national news segment on every blogger that has aired in the last four years. And I always feel like they’re edited awfully, or they’re interviewed by morons, or that the segments just don’t seem to get any point across about bloggers that I - as a blogger - can stand behind. I always feel disappointed when they’re done and think, Great. There’s another million-plus people who still are going to think we’re all a bunch of freaks.
But that segment last night? GREAT. It gave Heather a decent amount of free-range face time so that she seemed real, but they also interviewed her candidly and actually asked her good questions and edited the entire segment into something I can proudly stand behind and say, “Yeah! What she said!”
Sometimes I’ve felt like the TV journalist must have it out for bloggers - with the way they interview and edit the bits for their programs. Especially us “Mommy Bloggers” who make a certain redhead broadcaster UNCOMFORTABLE. The bloggers always end up in a bad light - especially the Moms. But ABC did a GREAT job on the segment last night and I really hope you try to watch it if you can. Thank you, Nightline, for finally giving me a piece about bloggers that doesn’t make me ashamed to be one.
Good for her. The Kathie Lee Gifford show made me cringe.
Dude, she is so not a redhead.
Sorry to have missed the Nightline segment. Am going to scour the Internet for it now!
criminy!! I didn’t read her blog yesterday and totally missed it.
Does anyone know if it is online somewhere (no I haven’t looked at her site yet nor nightlines.) yet
I just watched it online and also loved it! It really made me think she is a real person instead of a talking head. Not that I ever thought she wasn’t real. Of course she is real. But… you know what I mean.
And by “she,” of course, I meant KLG, the broadcaster who might want to lay off the spray tan a bit. Or maybe the Today Show guys light her like that…
I stumbled upon the segment and I am sure glad that I did. I was like hey she looks familiar..of course my blog and famosity is nowhere in her vicinity but I think it was a great segment on how blogging is real people writing about real things..
it was awesome..
Did I hear them correctly when they said $40k a month in advertising revenue? Did they mean Heather gets that much? If so I just fell down dead.
I just got done watching the video online - AWESOME!
Kathie Lee who? *snort*
And is it wrong that I got most excited during the part where Heather was scrolling through the comments on one of her Flickr photos, and I SAW MY COMMENT?! I was all “HEY! That’s ME!”
I can’t wait to get home so I can watch it.
I couldn’t agree more! I sat through Millionaire and then braced myself for Nightline, fully expecting a repeat of the YesTERDay interview. It was quite lovely.
I think it said that it’s “estimated” that she makes that much in ad revenue. All Heather said was that it pays her bills.
And DAMN, did you see the size of their computer monitors?!? How long before Chuck’s balancing one of those?
Reading dooce is so different from watching Dooce. For someone being in the public eye, it bothers me how often she says “um”.
Thanks for posting this, Zoot! Even though I read Dooce regularly I somehow missed the nightline segment, so I’m glad you reminded me to watch it. And you’re right — it was a fantastic segment.
Good luck tomorrow!!