Posted on 11/26/2001 4:54:33 AM PST by randita
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The first story on the 10 o'clock news was about a Britney Spears concert in Anaheim.
"Come look at this," I called out to my wife, figuring there must have been a terrorist threat at Arrowhead Pond if the concert was leading the news.
I was wrong. Britney topped the news all on her own, and now they were interviewing a parent who had brought her 7-year-old daughter to the concert. The child was dressed like Britney, bare midriff and all. It goes without saying, of course, that this woman should be locked up. She is clearly unfit to be a parent, and if I had caught her name, I would have called child welfare officers myself.
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I assume your question is rhetorical as I personally don't live in the sticks. I live in the heavily populated NE corridor.
I guess if you expect TV news to be no more than celebrity watches, the newscast described by the author will satisfy you.
If you expect TV news to be a tool for informing us about weighty, current events, you will be sorely disappointed--as I have been, for years.
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