Kevin Federline's television debut on the Teen Choice Awards was everything that critics hoped it would be: embarrassing, ridiculous, and craptacular. Thousands of people wrote in to say as much about the performance on YouTube. But for some reason, Erin Carlson, the Associated Press writer covering K-Fed's debut, decided to rely on sources who hadn't even bothered to watch the sub-four-minute segment.

The main point of the article seems to be that it's not just people on the internet who make fun of Mr. Spears; those in the hip-hop community do, too! But the two people Carlson interviewed who are meant to stand in for the hip-hop community—editors from XXL magazine and King magazine—commented without even seeing the show. They're journalists, for chrissakes. Couldn't they get themselves to a computer to watch the clip before commenting (like XXL editor-in-chief Eliot Wilson does) that the performance was a "YouTube disaster"? And if the TV debut really was sparking derision in the hip-hop industry, couldn't Carlson have found someone in the industry who had bothered to watch the segment?