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  • Q: Why aren't color reruns shown of "The Andy Griffith Show"? It's the same black and white reruns over and over again!

    03/15/2024 5:30:34 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 64 replies
    TV Tabloid ^ | none given | Adam Thomlinson
    can unpack this a little bit, but the basic reason why the color episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show" don't run as often is because people don't like them as much. "Stations have historically recognized that the first five seasons ... are the most popular and considered, as a grouping, better than the final three seasons, which happen to be the color seasons," Jim Clark of the Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club (yep, that's a real thing) said in an interview with the Winston-Salem Journal. Recognizing this, stations often choose not to air the latter three seasons, instead just...
  • Gangsta-Culture Sensitivity Training In New York

    03/13/2006 12:16:59 PM PST · by stm · 18 replies · 417+ views
    The People's Cube ^ | 1/18/2006 | Red Square
    After learning that New York City police officers have been receiving Islamic-culture training, the Big Apple's largest street communities, the Bloods and the Crips, criticized the NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg for discriminating against gangsta people. Furious gangsta community leaders demanded that a similar sensitivity training program be created to educate law enforcement members about the intricacies of "gangsta-culture," with its vibrant rituals, traditions, and etiquette. "The Crips community has been here since the seventies and we don't get no sensitivity program," said a concerned Crips activist who happens to be a minority. "The Muslims just showed up and they get...