I can quit the whiskey ...and even the beer ...
but please tell me how to quit the TeeVee!!!!
Ping
By the end of this decade or shortly thereafter, television networks as we know them today will cease to exist. Network evening newscasts will go dark after the ‘08 elections and their news divisions disbanded.
The FNC news babe (not Gretchen) that accompanies the Fox N Friends 7-9 AM program has been showing more thigh than a chicken plant lately.
“Female “scientists” on the crime shows display enough cleavage that if the commercial were for Victoria’s Secret, viewers wouldn’t notice the transition.”
Is the author saying this is a bad thing?
Aw, C’mon, you mean Jill Nicolini is on the CW11 because of her looks? Who woulda thunk it http://www.jillnicolini.com/
It seems to me that the “upset” over this strike is limited to those directly involved - no matter how much Drudge tries to push it.
I couldn’t care less about it.
Maybe it’s the next phase of the demise of the dinosaur media?
I am way ahead of it all. I got rid of the family TV many years ago. My children all grew up reading books and only one of the four now has a TV in his house. One works in a TV station but has not that instrument at home.Three of them are well up on current events and the fourth is a gamer. He doesn’t watch programs on his TV but it’s because he is frying his neurons with World Of War.
In my family when there is nothing on TV, which is often, we returned to the golden age of radio - and we LOVE IT!
You don’t here anti-American, anti-Christian trash and vulgar language from Abbott and Costello, Charlie McCarthy, Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, or our friends down at Duffy’s Tavern. Just good clean fun. We usually listen to the direct feed from our satellite radio, but we also have a large collection purchased on line through ebay or at, http://www.radiospirits.com/
I have also a large collection of some of my favorite TV shows from the past thanks to DVD.
"Though the use of canned laughter reached its peak in the 1960s, the trend began to reverse with the 1971 debut of All in the Family." - Wikipedia
I don’t think I turned on TV all week. I didn’t even watch football on Sunday. That Olbermann is involved even a little bit has been a damper on the whole concept for me, I think.
Who really gives a damn? It’s just TV. I consider it to be little more than animated comic books, personally.
Besides, it’s capitalism at work. The bosses of TV have figured out that to get people to watch, they have to show some boobs, some uber-women, and some guts/blood.
If you took out sex-and-gore driven crime and medical dramas, high $$$ gameshows (including long-run gameshows disguised as reality-tv), and sex-driven sitcoms, that takes care of pretty much all of primetime television.