Tom Swift Writer’s Notebook

I made my television debut recently. Though that word makes it sound far more likely than it is that I’ll ever be on the tube again. I am sincerely grateful a producer was interested in my work and Charles Bender’s story. But I simply cannot watch the show. I provide the link because I figure if I have both a blog and a video clip devoted to the same subject that, well, the twain should meet. My segment begins a couple of minutes into the show. I watched the first 14 seconds before hitting pause and going back to my regularly scheduled life. But I listened long enough to hear a host declare that Bender was the first Native American baseball player in Major League Baseball. In the interest of historical accuracy, that isn’t close to true. The less critical person in my marriage said the rest was well done. Probably, though, I talked too much with my hands.

This post was added on Sunday, June 29, 2008 by Tom Swift at 22:30 and is filed under Media Alert.