Heh heh, Gregg Easterbrook
There are a lot of wankers out there in the mainstream media, but there's only one that I've actually emailed to tell him so: Alleged sports writer Gregg Easterbrook. As they note at Sadly, No, plenty of people are wrong about plenty of things plenty of the time, but it takes a special kind of guy to be constantly wrong on a wide variety of subjects, and yet still have a place in our supposed elite discourse.
The funny thing is that when I emailed him, it wasn't because of football, intelligent design or politics; it was because he'd gotten something wrong about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yes, make a thousand errors when it comes to energy policy, but don't mess with my fandom, bub. It was in the middle of one of his infamous ESPN columns in which he decided to make a point about the NFL, and made a comparison to season 7 BtVS but got his facts completely wrong. (He'd complained that near the end of the season Anya "forgot" she could teleport out of danger, and of course she could not do that, having lost her demon powers several episodes previous.) Sure it's a small thing, but the comparison would've been dumb even had he been right. Which he wasn't, and I said so in the note I sent to the feedback address.
Gregg never wrote back, darn. Probably he'll never know that this was a memorable point for me as I learned to be skeptical of the mainstream media. Let that be a lesson to you, pundits; don't piss off the Buffy fans...