[wagglebee]

Pathetic.

[atomicpossum]

Not to mention the Geena Davis sitcom.
:-)

[Vince Ferrer]

They must think the Republicans are going to win in 2008. The last apocolyptic fad Hollywood went through was during the Reagan years.

[mewzilla]

Sigh. More mustn't see TV.

Note to Hollywierd: My offer's still open. If you wanna know what'll sell in the red bits, give me a call.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Oh Brother! Haven't watched network programming in years, I guess the trend continues.

[MizSterious]

Wishful thinking, obviously. Jerks.

[Seamoth]

That's going too far...

[SandRat]

The LameStream MediumWhores Expose their true selves and agendas.

[COEXERJ145]

Already done before and IIRC, ended up doing pretty bad.

[Sofa King]

If they want me to watch, then it had better have been caused by reality TV.

[Thoeting]

How is this any different from the made for TV movies in the late 80's? We had movies about the take over of America by the Russians, destruction of America and Great Britain by a nuclear bomb.

Lame, but played.

[carlr]

Well maybe they are contemplating a Hillary administration.

OK,back to the real world.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Pathetic.

Like reality TV.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"END OF AMERICA SHOWS"

What attraction is there for re-runs of old network news?

It reminds me. In the 1980s I wanted to get up to speed on the Sandinista / El Salvador confrontation. Who were the good guys and who were the bad guys.

Quickest way was to watch one evening of TV network news to see which was favored -- they'd be the bad guys.

It worked.

[cgbg]

How about a show about the end of the major television networks?

That I might watch! :-)

[Americanwolf]

The leftist media wants to ferment revolution anyway it can... how pathetic and seditious!

[Phsstpok]

Folks, this scenario might lend itself to a conservative view of what is going on now. Assume the scenario is that the peacenik dims gain control in '06 and '08 and promptly negotiate "peace in our time" with the islamofascists, who promptly nuke us into obscurity. Would Europe or our Asian allies come to our aid? Hardly. So what would be left but a crippled and toothless giant?

It's like Niven/Pournelle's Fallen Angels, where the premise is that global warming is real and the Greens take control and put in the "right programs" to cure everything. Only then do they discover that global warming is the only thing keeping THE ICE AGE AT BAY.

There are possiblities here. I want to know who's making these things. Think about the folks at 24. Despite their bowing to preassure from CAIR they are big fans of Rush Limbaugh. Could something be afoot?

[birbear]

First off, I do have to say I do love my country.

But, I do see a time when there won't be a United States of America. When I was younger I used to be more cynical and think it would happen in my life time. I'm a little wiser now and think it'll take longer than that.

Or, at the very least, I see a weaker United States. I see a US as a non-super power, or a second tier super power. (mainly because of liberalism, and the growing threat of a Chinese/Russian super power, the growing consolidation of a liberal Europe, and a constant threat of Islmofacism.)

And since I can see that, I see where it would be interesting to write about, as a writer.


It'd be interesting to see what life would be like in a small town in a second rate U.S. It's not something many of us have ever contemplated.

For the record, I think these shows will fail miserablly because people won't want to see the U.S. portrayed that way... but I'd be interested in seeing what somebody's vision would be.

[Milhous]

Looks like America and Olds Media will fight to the death.

This looks like as good a thread as any to trot out my shrine to Olds Media. A work of FReeper performance art known as Got them Olds Media Circulation Blues inspired by an ancient axiom that bad news sells.

Newspaper circulation down. Sanfrancisco Chronicle down 17% - 11/08/2005
Newspaper Circulation Continues to Decline (NY Daily News DOWN 1.5% - May 2005) - 10/24/2005
Bored readers cutting off Globe’s circulation - 10/20/2005
Time Inc. Gets A U.S. Subpoena About Circulation - 09/24/2005
Denver papers use liberal rules to boost circulation - 08/08/2005
Advertisers Sue 'Minneapolis Star Tribune' Over Circulation Inflation - 06/29/2005
Arrests made in Newsday circulation scandal - 06/16/2005
Los Angeles Times Reports March Circulation (Down, down, down) - 05/02/2005
Belo Begins Refunding Advertisers Over Inflated Circulation Figures (Texas) - 05/02/2005
Why Can’t the Washington Post Keep Circulation Up? - 07/23/2004
Newsday, Hoy publishers retire amid circulation scandal - 07/19/04
Publishers Seek Scapegoats for Circulation Woes - 07/05/2004
Tribune Company (LA Times parent) Admits Inflated Circulation Numbers At Two Papers - 06/23/2004

[ladyinred]

More propaganda. It seems to work for the liberals unfortunately.

[Jack Deth]

Didn't ABC try something rather similar in 1987 with their post WWIII "Amerika" where the US lost???

And wasn't that an undisputed Turd-In-A-Punchbowl???

Can either ABC or CBS be seriously be gambling with their faltering ratings with such garbage?

Jack.