A Wendy's restaurant manager almost lost his life to a disgruntled customer early Tuesday morning.
The cause? Chili sauce. The shooter wanted more.
According to Miami-Dade police, just after midnight, a man was going through the Wendy's drive-through at 18181 NW 27th Ave. As he picked up his meal, he told the attendant he wanted extra chili sauce. When he didn't get his sauce right away, he began arguing with the attendant. Then, when he did get his sauce, he wanted more.
The attendant told him restaurant policy prohibits a customer getting more than three packets. The customer insisted on 10. The female attendant complied, but the customer continued arguing.
The attendant asked the customer to pull up so the manager could come out and speak with him. "The manager came out to inform him of company policy, and he shot at him several times," said Mary Walters, a Miami-Dade police spokeswoman.
The manager was struck in the left arm. He was taken to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital and is expected to recover. The customer fled in a brown four-door vehicle with a female passenger.
MILWAUKEE - A thief found out the hard way that robbing a woman isn't the best way to capture her heart. Two men robbed a U-Haul store around 3 p.m. Sunday, taking an unspecified amount of cash, according the store's owner. But instead of fleeing, one man lingered and tried to strike up a conversation with the woman he had just robbed.
"He stuck around and was trying to get the female employee's number," U-Haul general manager Patrick Sobocinski said. "She said he was just saying, 'Hey baby, you're pretty fine.'"
According to Sobocinski, one robber went behind the counter, put his hands around both employees' waists and demanded money. The robber forced one employee to open the register and grabbed cash. Then he forced the workers to the ground and fled, but his accomplice waited for a few moments and then asked one clerk whether she'd go out with him, he said.
"She said he was saying, 'Can I get your number and go out sometime,'" Sobocinski said.
No surprise ending here the woman turned him down, and he fled.
AP story. No independent confirmation.
A Jerusalem man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family. "This kind of thing doesn't happen every day," said 49-year-old Arthur Du Mosch, a nature guide. "I don't know why I did it. I wasn't thinking, I just acted."
Raviv Shapira, who heads the southern district of the Israel Nature and Parks Protection Authority, said a half dozen leopards have been spotted recently near Du Mosch's small community of Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev desert in southern Israel, although they rarely threaten humans. Shapira said it was probably food that lured the big cat. Leopards living near humans are usually too old to hunt in the wild and resort to chasing down humans domestic dogs and cats for food, he added.
Du Mosch's pet cat was in the bed with him at the time, along with his young daughter who had been frightened by a mosquito in her own room. Shapira said the leopard was exhausted and smoking a cigarette very weak when park rangers arrived at Du Mosch's home after the surprise late-night visit. He said nature officials would likely release it back into the wild.
Du Mosch said he probably would not have been able to control the big cat were it in better health. As a nature guide, he said, he was familiar with animals and did his best to hold down the leopard without harming it. He said he took it all in stride, "but the kids were excited." Could have worse. Could have been a Paleo.
Awwwww, Lindsay, I'm soooooooooooo disappointed in you...
NEW YORK - Lindsay Lohan, who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif., was photographed less than 48 hours later slumped in the passenger seat of a car. Now wait a second. Let's give her the benefit of the doubt. She could be working on the same bender...
Web site X17online.com posted the photos Monday, which it said were taken early that morning at a gas station after the 20-year-old actress left the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, Calif., with a girlfriend. Passed out at a gas station? That doesn't sound very glamorous. That sounds like something I could do.
The photos show Lohan, wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt, with her mouth open and her eyes shut, apparently asleep. Nah, I'll bet a lotsa guys have seen that one before. And I'll bet she was wide awake...
Another photo shows her kneeling on the ground, her back to the camera, apparently before getting into the vehicle. Such nice manners, gacking before you enter the car. She's been raised well...
Leslie Sloane Zelnik, Lohan's publicist, didn't return repeated phone calls and e-mail messages from The Associated Press seeking comment. Hi, this is Leslie. Please leave a message and if I decide not to jump off this ledge, I'll get right back to you...
Lohan was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Saturday after her convertible struck a curb in Beverly Hills, and investigators found what they believe is cocaine at the scene, police said. Aw, c'mon, offisha. This Bevelee Hills. That could be anybuddies. Hey, your cute...
The actress and two other people were riding in her 2005 Mercedes SL-65 when it crashed on Sunset Boulevard around 5:30 a.m., Sgt. Mike Foxen said. It appeared Lohan was speeding, Lt. Mitch McCann said at an afternoon news conference. The cops must have her plate number carved into their dashboards.
Officers at the scene found a "usable amount" of a drug tentatively identified as cocaine, McCann said. He declined to say where the drug was found other than to say Lohan wasn't carrying it. She has people for that...
Lohan, who spent time at a rehabilitation center earlier this year, was driven in another car to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, McCann said. Broken nostrils?
McCann declined to comment on her blood-alcohol level. He said the case will be presented to the District Attorney's Office where Lohan could face more charges, including felonies. Her tentative arraignment date is Aug. 24. August 24, 2007: "Oh, no, your honor. This time rehab has really, really worked for me. And, do you want me to find Jesus or something, because I can have my people work on that..."
Lohan said in January that she had checked into a rehabilitation center for substance abuse treatment. Her publicist confirmed in December that the actress was attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. She told Allure magazine during an interview for its May issue that she decided to enter the secluded Wonderland Center at the suggestion of her therapist. Maybe her therapist can now recommend the secluded LA County Jail for Boss Dyke's brand of rehab ...
Her latest movie, "Georgia Rule," is in theaters. Her other screen credits include "Mean Girls," "Bobby," "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Freaky Friday." Classics all. I can see now why this woman rates all the attention. But we all love a freak show...
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And if anybody really cares about this latest installement of "Big-Titted Celebrity All Phuqueked Up But It Isn't Really My Fault" would have gotten achuckle out of good ol' Daddie's interview (predictable): " She's a good girl, just learning and all....bullsh1t, YAYAYAYA...."
Rosie O'Donnell says she will likely never speak to "The View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck again after an on-air tiff last week that led to O'Donnell's early departure from the show.
The former host of the ABC daytime chatfest says in a video blog posted on her Web site that she has never tried harder to be friends with someone, but she doesn't think she succeeded with Hasselbeck. "I haven't spoken to her, and I probably won't, and I think it's just as well," she said. "I wrote her an e-mail, and she wrote me back, and there you have it."
The fight ended a colorful eight-month tenure for O'Donnell that lifted the show's ratings but no doubt caused heartburn for show creator Barbara Walters. O'Donnell feuded with Donald Trump and frequently had snippy exchanges with the more conservative Hasselbeck.
On Friday, ABC said O'Donnell asked for, and received, an early exit from her contract. O'Donnell said last month she would be leaving because she could not agree to a new contract with ABC executives. In the video blog, she said she never really fit in. "I was really just like a foster kid for a year," she said. "I came, you know, we considered adoption, but I didn't really fit into the family and now it's time for the foster kid to go back home."
O'Donnell fessed up that chief writer Janette Barber drew a mustache on a photo of Hasselbeck at the show's studio before they left. "It was a joke on the way out," she said.
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Rosie Still Mad at Hasselbeckas a hatter
There, fixed it for ya.
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Rosie O'Donnell says she will likely never speak to "The View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck again . . . .
Sources say Elizabeth Hasselbeck reacted to this news by dancing a little jig of despair.
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Rosie is still a crazy loud mouthed clam digger. Hold her to her promise Elizabeth about not talking to you. Every now and again, Rosie chews through the restraining straps.
KUWAIT CITY - A US marine has been killed and three others were slightly wounded in an accident at a camp in Kuwait, the US military said on Monday. The accident took place on Sunday as the marine was offloading equipment at Camp Patriot, northwest of Kuwait City, the military said. The three wounded marines were treated for minor wounds and returned to duty, it said, adding that an investigation has been launched into the incident.
About 15,000 US troops are stationed in Kuwait, which served as the main launchpad for the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. The emirate is also used as a transit point for foreign forces moving in and out of Iraq.
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Another example that military service is often dangerous at its most routine and peaceful.
The Huey helicopter was the U.S. military's workhorse during the Vietnam War. With 7,000 deployed, 2,500 were lost, and more than 2,000 Huey pilots were killed. In movies and on television, the Huey became the quintessential image of the war.
The crews developed a special bond with their choppers, and thanks to a helicopter enthusiast in England, one Huey crew was able to reunite recently with the chopper that served their unit in Vietnam the 129th Helicopter Assault Company.
Former pilot Ron Paye was too emotional to speak when he first heard the sound of his old machine coming over the green hills of Lancashire. He recognized that engine, even after thirty years.
"You can spot a Vietnam vet ... conversation stops," Paye said. "The Huey, greater than anything else, is the symbol of Vietnam. When you hear a Huey, I mean, you're drawn."
The man who brought man and machine together is Phil Connely, who found a rusting old Huey behind the Museum of Flight in Olympia, Wash., where it was being used for spare parts.
"The helicopter that everybody wants to fly and own is a Huey. I mean, its always number one on everyone's list," Connely said. "I went out to the back and this thing was just a wreck. There was no tail and the engine was out, all the gauges were missing."
Connely traced the machine's history, and when the Huey was ready to fly, he started contacting the veterans of the 129th. Paye made the journey across the Atlantic to fly his old chopper one more time. He was joined by his former door gunner Fred Alvis, and by Mark Jackson, whose brother died in a chopper crash in Vietnam.
The names of the 35 men of the 129th who died in Vietnam are painted today on the Huey's side.
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There was a documentary titled "In the Shadow of the Blade" on this very subject, which premiered at Arlington National Cemetery in 2004. More about it at this link, with a short video.
Working and going to school have become optional in this highland Guatemalan town, thanks to a flood of U.S. dollars sent home by migrants living in the United States.
The family-run mills that produce brightly colored, hand-woven traditional fabrics have fallen quiet as their potential work force mostly young men hang out at the town's pool halls or video game salons, living off remittances and waiting to make their own journeys north.
"Kids have easy money, and the only thing they know how to do is spend it on video games," complained Salcaja Mayor Miguel Ovalle. "In this town, school attendance has fallen in part because many go to the U.S., and also because those who stay don't want to go to school."
Some 48,000 Guatemalans left between 2005-2006, almost all to the U.S., according to the Geneva-based International Immigration Organization, which also found that more than 1 million Guatemalans between the ages of 10 and 20 years old were getting U.S. remittances last year.
Last year, Guatemalans in the U.S. sent home more than $3.6 billion, of which $300 million went to some 300,000 people in the province of Quetzaltenango, home to Salcaja. That's a substantial cash flow in a $35 billion economy with an industrial output of just $6.7 billion last year as measured by gross domestic product.
Similar challenges are evident in other parts of Latin America, where remittances have made low-wage labor increasingly undesirable. In some places, local employers are being forced to raise salaries. In others, traditional industries are simply being abandoned.
"In many communities in Mexico and Central America, remittances have prompted a healthy competition among employers who offer better salaries because of the scarce work force, but dependence on remittances has also slowed local economic growth," said Eliseo Diaz, a researcher with the Tijuana, Mexico-based Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
In many Mexican communities, small businesses like auto and tire repair shops and plumbing services are disappearing. "For many people, it's much easier to spend the money they receive than go look for it, and when this happens, productivity is reduced, affecting their local economy," Diaz said.
During the 1980s and part of the 90s, almost every household in Salcaja had at least one loom, and weaving the fabric used for traditional Mayan skirts was the first way young men earned their own money.
Now, some mill owners have moved their looms to remote, rural villages with little or no migration, where people will work for a salary of 900 quetzales, or about $120 a month. "The thing is that this work is really hard, and you earn very little," said Secundino Taracena, the owner of one mill. "It's easier for a young person to sit back and receive money" from the United States.
About 1,000 families in this town of 12,000 people receive their remittances through a finance and credit cooperative called Salcaja, R.L., which encourages the development of small businesses under its "More than Remittances" program. "We want to foster investment, instead of consumption," said the cooperative's general manager, Romualdo Pizabaj.
But for many, like Franklin Robles, 32, who lived in Chicago and Trenton, N.J., for 10 years, wages will always be too low in Guatemala. "None of the young guys are going to work for the 1,400 quetzales ($200) that you earn in a month," said Robles, currently unemployed. "And why would they study when someone who goes to school doesn't earn any more than that?"
Many simply bide their time until they can head north themselves, paying smugglers as much as $7,000 to guide them into the United States. Most migrants from Salcaja end up in Trenton or Chicago. Some are lucky enough to have parents who can bring them in legally.
"I don't want to study. It's boring," said Nery Raul Rodas, 14. "I'm just waiting for my dad to fix my papers so that I can go to the U.S. to work."
Guatemalan Deputy Foreign Relations Secretary, Marta Altolaguirre, acknowledged that many towns struggle to compete with remittances, but the government isn't overly worried about it. "It's the least of our problems," she said. "The positive outweighs the negative."
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The Panama-born Clarksville, Tennessee native previously held the title of Miss Tennessee Teen USA® in 2002 and has significant plans for her new position.
The bi-racial beautys accomplishments include humanitarian efforts that have allowed her the opportunity to travel the world; she has been to Mexico twice and multiple times to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her most recent endeavors led Smith to South Africa in January 2007, where she volunteered at Oprah Winfreys Leadership Academy for Girls.
Let's allow another 20 million Mexicans into the US. All they want to be are good Americanos.
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I've never been a fan of beauty pageants, but I really admire Ms. Smith's composure under embarrassing and frightening circumstances. She comported herself very well-fall notwithstanding.
More than one million photographs of hundreds of thousands of homes have been taken by council tax inspectors, it emerged yesterday. The photographs are stored on a massive central database kept by the Valuation Office Agency, ministers disclosed. Council tax bills have gone up, on average, by more than 80 per cent since Tony Blair came to power in 1997.
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It's funny that the UK is going the way of old Spain, which for long had a window and appearance tax. That is why still today, in Mexico and much of central and South America, from the outside buildings and their grounds look cruddy and cheap. The people put everything nice inside.
So I guess this could be called an "uglyfication program."
ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. (AP) - Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday. Forty-six flags were burned completely and another 33 were found in charred tatters Sunday in the cemetery, authorities said. Swastikas drawn on paper appeared where 14 of the flags had been.
Members of the American Legion on this island off Washington's northwest coast replaced the burned flags with new ones Sunday afternoon. The vandals repeated the stunt on Memorial Day after a guard left at dawn, the San Juan County sheriff's office said. This time, the vandals left 33 of the hand-drawn swastikas.
``This is not an act of free speech. This is a crime,'' Sheriff Bill Cumming said in a statement released Monday afternoon. Sheriff's department officials declined to comment further on Monday.
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Dimes to donuts that this was done by two idiots who's mothers didn't breast feed them enough.
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people are getting pretty pissed off now days. Our government is letting us down.
Not protecting the boarder and allowing criminals the right to protest on our street is a crime not being enforced. Yet we give them money and shelter.
We give them free medical. the cali government is more pro mexican than pro american. You have 12 million criminals in the country and you refuse to do anything about it. People are going to snap.
the anger towards vets is anger brewed by the hate of the jews. when young men are brewed with the potion of hate towards a people, weather the muslim or christian....it all seems to come down to the protection of jews. We are in Iraq to protect the Jews don'tcha know...
That is why I believe we are seeing this kind of crap.
What is being allowed now by the USA government is so criminal regarding our boarders...it is beyond madding.
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Surely banning long hair republican would do the trick, Zenster. Besides, hitting him over the head wouldn't do any good -- his brain is clearly situated elsewhere.
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....it all seems to come down to the protection of jews. We are in Iraq to protect the Jews don'tcha know...That is why I believe we are seeing this kind of crap.
I dunno, 5089, that sounds like a personal statement to me, and a pretty ugly one at that.
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I think A5089 is right. I don't recall LHR having anything against Jews, and during last summer's Lebanon war he was gung-ho for Israel kicking as much Muslim butt as possible.
The way I read his comment, he's attributing this flag-burning stuff to the kind of people who blame Jews for everything.
Just my take...
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On reflection, Dave, 5089, you might be right. LHR, I withdraw my earlier statement.
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I think it would be funny as hell if a couple of lads were found hanging by the neck in one of these cemeteries, impaled with some of their precious Nazi flags.
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Actually, I think these people (The ones replacing the flags) can serve a valuable and useful purpose. Our military snipers can use them as targets, either in place or they could be captured and then released into an area for the snipers to use for practice.
And of course, they'd be contributing to the enviroment by providing the plants with fertilizer from their rotting corpse.
See, even vermin like this can be put to a good use.
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I think this bad act was done by misguided yoots. We don't need to impale them, but teach them a lesson. I know this because I learned this very lesson as I matured. Young boys who perceive that they have nothing while everyone else has wealth and posessions, often resort to destructive words and behaviors. Simply, they do not respect the property of others or the good deeds of others. It's a matter of jealousy and envy. They need some credit for some accomplishment in life, yet they have neither an accomplishment nor a chance to gain one. They are not bad people, it's just a matter of focus.
I was lucky enough to work on construction when still young, and when I took part in actually constructing a house, I never again defaced anything.
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Surely banning long hair republican would do the trick, Zenster.
My comment was directed towards those who desecrated our veterans' graves. Your mileage may vary.
They are not bad people, it's just a matter of focus.
I disagree, wxjames. The swastika is a symbol of pure hatred and utilizing it as any sort of message represents a severe lapse in charater and moral fiber. Even the youth of today know this well enough. This was a flagrant defiling of the resting place for those who died fighting against tyranny. They deserve better.
(CNSNews.com) - The Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) said it will complain to the Catholic archbishop about a Chicago priest who called for the murder of a suburban gun shop owner over the weekend.
On Saturday, as part of an Operation PUSH protest at Chuck's Gun Shop & Range, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina's Church, urged the crowd to "drag" shop owner John Riggio from his shop "like a rat" and "snuff" him, ISRA said. Pfleger also said lawmakers who vote against gun control legislation also should be "snuffed." (ISRA has posted online what is says is a recording of Pfleger's remarks.)
ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson called it "shocking" to hear a priest advocate the murder of a gun shop owner "who has never committed a crime in his life."
"Pfleger's comments were disgusting and dangerous," Pearson said. "And, I seem to remember that the Fifth Commandment frowns on murdering one's neighbor," he added.
"This week, I'll be penning a letter to the Archbishop, expressing my concerns over Rev. Pfleger's comments," continued Pearson. "I would hope that the Archbishop would reply with words of comfort for Mr. Riggio, his family, state legislators, and all others who were injured by Rev. Pfleger's thoughtless, inflammatory remarks."
In a message on the church's website, Pfleger says he believes that "we are called by God to build this church in a world filled with division, alienation and racism in order that we may be a witness to the world that it is possible and that the love of God is stronger than the hate of Satan." ....and the bullets of Riggio are stronger than the wrath of Pfleger.
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In a message on the church's website, Pfleger says he believes that "we are called by God to build this church in a world filled with division, alienation and racism in order that we may be a witness to the world that it is possible and that the love of God is stronger than the hate of Satan."
You might try living up to your own words, Father. A little personal penance and expiation would be a good idea, too.
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CHICAGO, January 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) Catholic priest Father Michael Pfleger of the Archdiocese of Chicago wants people to know that pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage Senator Barack Obama is the best thing to come across the political scene since Bobby Kennedy.
Father Pfleger says he has known Obama for 20 years. I think Barack Obama is in a class of his own, he said.
Some of the most creative thinking in television these days has nothing to do with comedy or drama. It's about the commercials.
Fueled by a growing sense of desperation, networks are inserting games, quizzes and mini-dramas into commercial breaks. They're incorporating more product pitches into programming. Two experimental programs without traditional commercial breaks will premiere this fall. NBC has even called on Jerry Seinfeld for help. There's only a couple of network shows I bother with, anyway, but there's this "steep and slippery slope" thingee...
This is all being done to stop viewers with DVRs from fast-forwarding through advertisements, or to circumvent those that do. Adding to the urgency, this week Nielsen Media Research begins offering ratings for commercial breaks, instead of just the shows around them.
"We all need to become more creative in how we incorporate sponsors into a program," said Ed Swindler, executive vice president for NBC Universal ad sales. "No one on the creative side or the business side wants to make commercials intrusive, but we do need to commercialize efficiently so viewers can afford to get free television."
An estimated 17 percent of American homes now have digital video recorders. Nielsen estimates that in prime-time, nearly half of 18-to-49-year-old viewers with DVRs are watching recorded programs instead of live ones. Of these, six in 10 skip through the ads.
Figure in bathroom breaks and channel surfers, and that makes for a lot of missed opportunities for marketers - with a lot more coming as DVR use grows.
So far, the most frequent experiment is to insert original content into commercial breaks. The CW network pioneered "content wraps" last year where, in one example, a hair care company ditched the typical ad to present beauty tips and interviews with the network's stars, all involving the company's products. The CW figured on doing six content wraps at first, but advertisers were so enthusiastic that 20 were done, a spokesman said.
TNT aired a five-episode mini-drama about a young woman, with viewers directed to a Web site - plastered with the sponsoring credit card company's ads - for the finale. Fox created an animated taxi driver, Oleg, who would appear during breaks talking to his passengers. Next month Court TV offers a mystery about an unsolved murder with clues dropped in commercial breaks, online and via text messages; the game's winner gets $25,000. Fans of NBC's "Scrubs" were asked trivia questions at the beginning of a commercial break, the answer appearing in between ads.
Seinfeld will appear in several quick comedy skits for NBC next fall that also promote his upcoming movie. TBS has tried making commercial breaks a destination. It often bunches a series of funny commercials together and promotes them ahead of time to viewers.
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I suppose it's out of the question to actualy improve the commercials?
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I started watching a 1.5 hr movie for the first time in ages the other day - then 1 hr into it I noticed it had two hours yet to run, and the ads were so thick I was having trouble remembering the plot. - so THEY KILLED THE GOLDEN GOOSE - good riddance!
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Nobody's being "ripped off", you whiny bitches. The networks get paid to run the commercials. But I notice nobody is paying me to watch the damned things.
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They're incorporating more product pitches into programming.
Anybody remember the television exec calling people who didn't watch commercials "thieves"? This is a serious issue for broadcast programmers. Recall that long ago television ceased to be driven by viewer preference and instead by marketing demographics. Television is no longer being sold to the viewer, you are being sold to the advertisers. Previous ad detection devices sensed abrupt volume changes or drastic shifts in formatting. Ads are usually much louder and have very different aspect ratios. The DVR has changed all of that rather dramatically.
What you will see in the future is extreme product placement. Sponsors' goods and branding will appear directly in the show. Verbal comments upon an actor's attire will explicitly mention the name of the maker. An episode might center upon the purchase of a particular model of car. There has even been discussion of having programs take place in the office buildings of certain sponsors or involve tours of the facility during the show. Anything to get facetime with the audience.
Remember this is what brought you least common denominator television programming. They could give a damn about what sort of dreck you watch so long as it sells the latest widget for their advertisers.
I wonder what percentage of the price of consumer commodities is advertising.
A study way back in the 1960s showed that for a Cadillac automobile, the advertising was the second most expensive component of the final product. It broke down to something like $75.00 per emblem on the vehicle. It can only have gotten worse by now.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Thief asks out woman after robbery
