A follow-up to yesterday's posts

On baseball: the Washington Post (via the Associated Press) uses the following headline: "Poll: Bonds' HR Quest Gets Scant Support."  Scant?  Interestingly, this article quotes a lower number than the one I linked to yesterday: 37 percent in support of Bonds breaking the record vs. 48 percent.  Apparently, Jayson Stark counted those who had no opinion a speople supporting Bonds' breaking the record -- or at the very least, not opposing it.  

So 37 to 48 percent is scant?  That's higher than many presidential approval ratings are right now.  And given the media's treatment of Baonds, it's way higher than most people expected.   Clearly, the AP headline shows that many members of the media are intent on sticking to the same story they've been pushing for the past few years -- and continue to try to influence public opinion towards the story they want to tell, rather than the actual facts.  This issue is complicated...but the media doesn't do well with complicated.

Now for a movie blurb: the Express posted a quote from an online blog or something that asked, "Wouldn't Topher Grace have made a better Peter Parker than Tobey Maguire?"  It's an intriguing question.  My first instinct is to say yes.  Since Topher isn't intimidating, I think he's inappropriate as Venom.  But as Parker, he would have been funnier than Tobey, he'd have been able to crack better jokes and deliver them better, and he would have merely had to cry at the same level to make it work. 

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