Albany Times Union
Times Union TV writer
Mark McGuire says a "half dozen-plus" newspaper staffers have written about "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" building a home in the area. "Some can very well argue that the coverage ... has been -- and there is no other word -- extreme," he acknowledges. Times Union managing editor
Mary Fran Gleason defends the
coverage: "It's a story about a pop-cultural phenomenon, and about a community's charitable effort, even if it is being exploited."
