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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As far as Britney goes, she does look like a slut but I will admit she looked pretty hot on Thanksgiving day when she performed for the troops. If you teach your kids well from a young age, they will know better and if they do get side tracked, it will be a temporary thing. If you cant deal with your own kids, dont worry about someone else's.
And Dave, I trust you were directing your comments to S. Lo (too funny) as he, not randita, was the author...;-)
And we worry about the Taliban in Afghanistan? Seems like we have a few Taliban-like individuals in this country as well. If you had called child welfare service, they probably would have laughed in your face. I imagine you are against shorts and skirts that dont go x number of inches below the knee also. A seven year old clearly doesnt find any sexual connection to a bare middrift. Its just a fashion statement. If you dont like it, dont look. Then YOU wont be tempted. Either that or pluck out your eyes so YOU DONT SIN!
you have got that correct. unfortunately, it is more than the liberal media that is spreading corruption through society like a slow cancer through the generations. the analogy i like to draw is a frog in a pot of water that is very slowly increasing in temperature. the frog, being cold blooded, does not realize what is happening until it is too late and he is cooked.
gird yourself with the warmbloodedness of christian values!
Thank you. I feel better now.
Russ
Same here. It's said that a 30 minute local news show has as much news as a single newspaper column.
I had a friend years ago that was a local news producer for a TV station. I would go down to the station and sit with him during the shows and watch the mayhem behind the scenes. I got to know most of the "talent", and I have to say that they weren't the brightest people I've ever met. Nice folks, but dumb as rocks.
Why do they do traffic reports on TV? Who has a TV in their car, and what traffic report hasn't changed by the time you get into your car and go somewhere?
Ever think about why they do that?
It's because they can't get sued!. The truth is, the media has created a lawsuit-happy culture that has turned on them. Ever wonder why they do so much reporting on the weather, and why they literally count snowflakes? It's because they can't get sued.
It doesn't mean people won't try to sue them, it means people likely won't succeed...
I actually don't think they have given turning people away from Him a thought.
The content of television is designed to inculcate two values, or states of mind: dependency and desire.
The purpose of this is merely to make the advertising, and the promotion of consumption, work.
The problem is that, like any addict, the TV consuming cuture requires bigger and bigger stimuli to activate the hoped for condition of generalized desire. What worked in the fifties, or the sixties, does nothing now.
The content of "comedies" is clearly in a downward spiral-but so is the content of dramas, films, and the news.
It's not about Jesus-it's all about the Benjamins.
Not to speak of those two bloody pop-up ads at the LaLaTimes site, if you follow the link. Why is it that, when it comes to advertising, the left-wing media are so much greedier than anyone else? Or is it just that their mind-numbed patrons are too stupid to object?
What is up with the friggin' weather report? Who gives a &%#@!*&! what the %$#@! high temperature of the day was?! The day is %$*@*! over you morons! And only some anal-retentive #$%*@! meterologist-in-training wants to compare the $%*#@ weatherman's forecast with the day's actual highs and lows.
The weather report should last about 10 seconds - tops! It should go like this:
Hi. The weather tomorrow will be sunny in the morning with a chance of rain in the afternoon. High around 79 degrees, and a low of 54. Bye.
Just remember, less weather means more sports!
"No bloody way!" her father. "If you're going out, you're going to dress in a costume that doesn't look like your trolling on the street corners."
"OK, Daddy," my daughter's friend said with a smile and went back to her room. Ten minutes later, she came out in a pink business suit. "Is this better, Daddy?"
"Well, it's nicer," he said. "But it doesn't look much like a Halloween costume. Who are you supposed to be?"
"Hillary Clinton," my daughter's friend said.
There was a moment of silence. Then the father shook his head and said, "Go back upstairs and put the Britney costume back on."
"OK, Daddy," said my daughter's friend and, laughing, went back upstairs.
"Now, why the heck did you let her get away with that?" I asked the other father.
"Listen, C.L.," he said to me. "If my daughter is going to insist on dressing up like a prostitute, then at least she's going to dress like an honest one."
It isn't news for exactly the sort of reason given with this Britney Spears example.
If the leading news story isn't something inane such as that, the general rule for local TV news shows is: "if it bleeds, it leads." This rule alludes to the propensity for people to rubber-neck. If the TV news chopper shows pictures of a huge wreck of several vehicles out on the interstate, followed by closeups of the wreckage by the ground crew, it's a natural human tendency to stop and watch. But almost no information is imparted to the view in such reports, and it's not news you can use. If you travel that same interstate, the next morning the previous day's wreck will have long since been cleared and forgotten.
The same is true when the TV news reports on holdups at the 7-11, apartment or house fires, or an ongoing "in depth" coverage of some local murder story ("depth" in the TV business is all of a tenth of a millimeter deep).
Once you get past the bleed leads, there's a brief report on what new anti-freedom legislation was passed by the state legislature or a minute of news from around the world, then it's onto "fluff pieces": an important bake sale at a local church to raise funds for some cause, or a "feel good" story about a mother and daughter being re-united. Sometimes the "fluff piece" or the "feel good" piece is run at the very end of the broadcast, to leave you with a good feeling.
What isn't reported are the pieces of legislation being introduced in the legislature, the progress of such bills, stories that are incriminating of the corporate sponsors of the news shows, in-depth reporting on corruption in the judiciary, and a whole lot more. No, TV news is a world of vehicle pile-ups, robberies, shootings, murders, 5-K runs, church bake sales, celebrities in town, and "hard-hitting" investigations of mildew in home basements or how local hotels skimp on cleaning the laundry. It's a strange world, one that nobody actually inhabits.
If you're dependent on local TV for the weather or sports, the weather comes on about the same time each night, somewhere between 15 to 20 minutes after the hour. (But, beware though, of a brief weather report early on during the newscast, where they give you a few "teasers" about "details that will be coming up later" in the show -- that's not the actual weather segment.) Sports comes on at about 25 minutes past the hour (unless it's some major story about a local team winning big, in which case it might be a meaningless lead that even trumps the bleed leads).
But, an intelligent person who uses a computer should ask him or herself a question: If it's news, weather, and sports information you want, why bother with TV when you can get both the same information online and a whole lot more as well?
I feel much the same as you about the weather, but I live with an fisherman who hangs on every word of the weather forecast. Heat, humidity, speed and direction of wind, clouds, sun, fog, drizzle, hard rain--every minute detail of the forecast is pondered as to whether or not the weather will be conducive to a good day of fishing. Possibly the same with hunters, too--I don't know.
Also, people who work outdoors like landscapers, building contractors, road crews, et al are very dependent on weather.
So there are a lot of people who want/need weather details for work or recreation purposes. I don't really care unless I'm packing for a vacation or going to be driving someplace where ice or snow is a possibility.
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