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By the end of this decade or shortly thereafter, television networks as we know them today will cease to exist. They will be just another url on the world wide web competing against millions of others.

Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections and their news divisions disbanded.

1 posted on 02/13/2008 12:25:12 PM PST by abb
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2 posted on 02/13/2008 12:26:21 PM PST by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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I think I speak for a number of people when I say, "There was a strike? Who knew?"

p.s. Yes, I know about the strike, but it didn't have anywhere near the impact or dire consequences that were predicted.

4 posted on 02/13/2008 12:29:11 PM PST by Hoffer Rand
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Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections and their news divisions disbanded integrated into the Clinton Whitehouse Federal Factual Information Office.
5 posted on 02/13/2008 12:31:07 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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what’s “TV”?


6 posted on 02/13/2008 12:33:50 PM PST by woollyone (entropy extirpates evolution and conservation confirms the Creator blessed forever.)
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Oh thank goodness the strike is over, I haven’t slept for three months wringing my hands over this.........../sarc OFF


7 posted on 02/13/2008 12:34:02 PM PST by rockabyebaby (PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR INFIDEL STEPHENJOHNBANKER)
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Gosh, with all of these talented writers going back to work full time......I sure hope they don’t pull “The Biggest Loser” off the air.....


9 posted on 02/13/2008 12:34:14 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.)
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I didn’t care that there was a strike because I seldom watch any of those shows. Two shows that I like are “Monk” and “The Closer.”

I bought the DVD package of “Rick Steves’ Europe, 2000-2007: All 70 Shows,” and I’ve been enjoying that.

http://www.amazon.com/Rick-Steves-Europe-2000-2007-Shows/dp/B000K7UBRU/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1202934866&sr=8-2


10 posted on 02/13/2008 12:36:00 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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Who’s been on strike?

Can’t say I noticed...


14 posted on 02/13/2008 12:44:22 PM PST by Wil H
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Glad to see that the last season of Battlestar Galactica will be finished. That and LOST — the other shows can bite the dust. :-)


15 posted on 02/13/2008 12:44:49 PM PST by Londo Molari
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Pity the strike had to end. Most of these writers contribute nothing positive or uplifting for society.

The TV / Movie Industry are a pathetic wasteland. I gave up TV in 2000 and my life has been freed from the stupidy of pop culture and leftist group-think.

Read a book America...go out and experience life. Time spent watching TV is time you will never recapture.

My $.02


17 posted on 02/13/2008 12:47:40 PM PST by He'sComingBack!
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Am I the only one to have noticed their strike?


21 posted on 02/13/2008 1:04:19 PM PST by ASA Vet
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The strike is over, now they can go back to creating depraved, anti-family, anti-value pro-gay trash.


28 posted on 02/13/2008 1:19:32 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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Well, the strike affected BSG and Smallville which probably needed to end anyway.


29 posted on 02/13/2008 1:21:29 PM PST by Centurion2000 (su - | chown -740 us ./base | kill -9 | cd / | rm -r)
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Half a TV season? I guess 8 to 12 shows are better than none! (sarcasm)

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

30 posted on 02/13/2008 1:23:46 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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I don’t even watch network television but I don’t buy into this article.

I’m reminded of the long baseball strikes and how people said they would NEVER go back to baseball. Today baseball is more popular than it has been in decades.


32 posted on 02/13/2008 1:31:48 PM PST by Artemis Webb
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Well, if they hadn't programmed crap like this in the meantime:

St. Lucy & the Writers Strike


St. Lucy and Robots

... maybe folks would still wanna watch

33 posted on 02/13/2008 2:39:05 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Any Monday you can walk away from is a good one.)
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