Rachel Syme, "Guiding Stars: How "Who? Wekkly" Explains the New celebrity," New Yorker, June 7, 2021, pp. 80-81.
The exchange was a case study in the limits of girl-boss culture, and in order to get to the heart of the scandal, Finger and Weber close-read excerpts from Hollis's audiobook and pored over her subsequent apology, "I haven't read the book," Finger said, with a grin in his voce "But I can search in the book on google Books and then find the accompanying passage on my audiobook from the library, so I just searched to see if she's ever talked about being relatable, and guess what, she has. This obsessive rabbit-hole quality can make the show feel almost manic, but it also provides something of a public service. If fame can seem like a mystery, Finger and Weber operate like Columbo, casually collecting clues and weighing evidence until they crack the case.
COMMENT
Here it is! The first example I've run across that describes an authentic contemporary Google-based research strategy that interacts with library resources. The podcasters have a show that features people who are not exactly famous. in the article they describe researching a mommy blogger (Rachel Hollis) who alienated fans when she admitted to having a housekeeper, and then said that she had never claimed to be relatable. The podcasters use Google Books and an audiobook from the library to fact-check her claim.
