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Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2874
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 7:21 am: |     |
So I actually have a few minutes to myself this morning. The kids are--miraculously--still sleeping and it's after 7:00. I'm folding laundry and flipping channels.
Stopped to watch "Today." Don't know why. In the space of just a couple of minutes I heard about a cop that shot some guy who was completely cooperating with him, has a history of complaints and is now on suspension, some guy who kidnapped his girlfriend/wife/whatever and their baby and sped down some highway shooting out the back of his compact car, then crashed the car into the back of a pickup. They actually had video footage of somebody being ejected from the car in the middle of the highway--and was, miraculously, somehow fine. The story then went on to say the "gunman" was killed in a shootout with the police and the woman and child were injured in the crash. Following right on the heels of this is a story, with accompanying video footage, is the story of some scumbag who jumps out of a car and steals a gold necklace off the neck of a 5-year-old girl, jumps back in the the passenger seat and the car speeds off!
Needless to say, I changed the channel. Who needs to be constantly bombarded with stories about the worst humanity has to offer? Not me, that's for sure!
Maybe I'm beginning to have some appreciation for the distraction of "Brangalina?"
Nah, I'll just keep not watching the "news!" |
Just The Aunt
Supporter
Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 3829
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 8:25 am: | |
Me-
Isn't the 'Today Show' on FOX? If so, that explains it! |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2876
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 8:28 am: | |
Nope, it was channel 4. And it's "Today," not the "Today Show." Don't know if that makes a difference because, like I said, I generally don't watch. Was just reminded why again this morning. |
Phenixrising
Citizen
Username: Phenixrising
Post Number: 1397
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 8:39 am: | |
Here's another news twist Meandtheboys
Teen disappears before wife, 37, gives birth
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/02/child.groom.ap/index.html
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Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2878
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 8:56 am: | |
Oy vey! Thanks for sharing. |
Scrotis Lo Knows
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 623
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 10:48 am: | |
Jerry Springer where art thou?
Meandtheboys-isn't it funny how Fox News are the only spinning/twisting liars in the media industry for some?
Those who criticize Fox for being "fair and balanced" are mostyl those who read the NYTs (the, ahem "Paper of Record"). 
I believe the Today show is on NBC... |
Joe
Citizen
Username: Gonets
Post Number: 1157
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 10:50 am: | |
Network television news has been a joke for at least the last 30 years. That's as far as my memory goes. Morning TV is the worst of the bunch.
If you did an experiment where 1 person spent the year watching nothing but local network TV news and another subject watched nothing but professional wrestling, and then had them take a quiz on the year's events. I believe the pro wrestling viewer would come away with a higher score. |
Dave
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 8530
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 11:04 am: | |
I watch almost no news on television.
I'm too busy watching
http://www.ifc.com (chan. 550 on DirecTV) |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12310
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 2:29 pm: | |
I agree. TV news is the pits! It invariably infuriates me.
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LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1251
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 2:34 pm: | |
The thing I hate about the news is that they're always cross-selling their network's other shows. We watch some of the 10 o'clock news before hittin the hay each night. Now, I don't mind when a news program has an "Entertainment News" segment -- I'm always up for the latest goings-on in the fluffy world of entertainment. But, Fox news always wastes time using their "Sound off" segment getting and reading emails from viewers who answer their latest question about "24". Channel 11 always uses their entertainment reporter's time to plug the latest goings on of some stupid show like 7th heaven or something. It's just sickening...like we don't know what they're doing? Just frustrates me. |
Ligeti
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 576
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 3:09 pm: | |
TV news now falls under the entertainment divisions at most networks (even if they won't admit it). It no longer intends to inform; it now must titilate. You've got a bunch of yupped up MBA bean counters weaned on Baywatch with short attention spans calling the shots.
Reject entertainment -- including Howard Stern -- disguised as news, culture and adults speaking. |
johnny
Citizen
Username: Johnny
Post Number: 1536
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 3:58 pm: | |
Calling "Today" a news show is an insult to news shows. "Today" is a dressed-up version of tabloid TV with Katie and Matt doing their best journalist imitations. |
Southerner
Citizen
Username: Southerner
Post Number: 632
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 4:03 pm: | |
Welcome to the party some of you. It has taken you awhile but you are here. There is no such thing as news in the nostalgic sense we hold in our minds. It is all about the Benjamins. That is why I often laugh at posters who slam Fox News - And your point is what? That they are trying to make money. All of them including the print media are newstainment. True news would be boring and only the diehards would read it or watch it and thus no Benjamins. I don't disparage any media out because I understand it is a business. And they all cater to the folks who bring in the most Benjamins.
We all should just take it for what it's worth and move on. As for me, I go Tivo and always have something better to watch. Unless it's the story on the lingerie halftime bowl this year (that was great journalism). |
ess
Citizen
Username: Ess
Post Number: 1005
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 4:44 pm: | |
Call "Today" what you want, but I am a sucker for Matt Lauer.
Incidentally, no need to slam MBAs, Ligeti. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12314
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 4, 2006 - 7:19 am: | |
I don't disparage any media out because I understand it is a business.
Some people still believe that something worth doing is worth doing it well. Apparently, no one in TV news believes that any more. The fact that it is a business doesn't make it any less a shame. They used to make money and do a good job at the same time.
Drug dealers are businesses, too.
The need to make money is not necessarily a license to do a bad job or do a job other than the one you're claiming to do.
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Carla
Citizen
Username: Elbowroom
Post Number: 41
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 4, 2006 - 8:24 am: | |
The Today show has segments that are heartwarming too. All you people that say they are doing a bad job, just what kind of news do you want to see? There are some great news shows on the air. CBS Sunday morning is a fantastic show. I'd like to see the kind of news show you would produce. I can see the stories now... "Cat up a tree! Fireman Small saves the day!"
And those that complain about cross-promotion. It's called synergy. It's smart business.
That story on the chain snatcher. That sort of thing happens everyday. It's just not caught on tape. Hopefully they will catch the guy. That's a story I'd like to see. |
Jersey Boy
Citizen
Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 100
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 4, 2006 - 8:48 am: | |
I find watching the news on T.V. is like having someone else select which articles to read in the Newspaper.
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Elgato
Citizen
Username: Elgato
Post Number: 13
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 4, 2006 - 9:26 am: | |
SLK, Jerry Springer's on Air America radio..His promos even say 'who would have thought that Jerry Springer would be the new voice of reason?' (and compared to Rush Limbaugh, he is). |
anon
Supporter
Username: Anon
Post Number: 2573
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 4, 2006 - 9:52 pm: | |
My advice: Watch the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. Too boring? Watch The Daily Show!  |
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