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2007-04-04 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-04-04 10:04|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I haven't watched the traditional networks in over a decade. They have totally lost any thread of News or entertainment. Just a wasteland.

Posted by 3dc 2007-04-04 10:35|| 2007-04-04 10:35|| Front Page Top

#2 I love how Rosie champions the state run/financed media around the world as superior to Americas free press simply because our free press has private ownership by large companies.

Me thinks she's a Marxist and may not know it.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-04-04 11:39|| 2007-04-04 11:39|| Front Page Top

#3 ABC hired her cause she is controversial (Full of it). To have an effect you have to put pressure on the money. How about a list of advertisers that can be contacted and boycotted? Its the only way to get their attention.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2007-04-04 11:48|| 2007-04-04 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Already done... go look at the Malkin thread.

Posted by Capsu 78 2007-04-04 12:50|| 2007-04-04 12:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps she might want to take a look at the response in Popular Mechanics.

She did. But -- dah di dah! -- SupeRosie is impervious to logic! Facts bounce right off her diamond-hard head! No source of information is a match for SupeRosie!

By the way, I liked this:

Get a physics expert here from Yale...

That would be the same Yale whose academic reputation is in the toilet because Bush went there? They need to synchronize their moonbattery.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-04-04 13:09|| 2007-04-04 13:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Much hilarity over at The National Review

Posted by Shipman 2007-04-04 13:51|| 2007-04-04 13:51|| Front Page Top

#7 In yesterday's Rosie-o'Mania, there was a link to some video of Danny Bonaduce delivering a penetrating analyis - in what Bizarro World can you write that? - about how it is *all* about ratings. As long as Rosie is generating the numbers, she is doing the job she was hired for, however disgusting that may be.

Posted by SteveS 2007-04-04 14:31|| 2007-04-04 14:31|| Front Page Top

#8 And Bonaduce to the extent of his own intelligence is absolutely correct. Examine closely when television's quality went down the toilet. I place it in the late fifties and early sixties. Even shows like "Route 66" contained morality plays and other useable context or content. Concerned people like Rod Serling were still optimistic about the revolutionary role that a superb medium like television could play in uplifting the average American's consciousness.

Right around that time is when television producers stopped selling television programming to the public and began selling their viewing public to the advertisers.

This single reorientation of or shift in television's profit center paradigm is what begat the bane of all televised media: Lowest common denominator programming. In the blind scramble for Nielsen rating numbers, quality programming got left in the dust. Kraft Playhouse, Onimbus and Hallmark Hall of Fame were vigorously thrust aside in favor of such puling drivel as Baywatch, Squeal of Fortune or Roseanne.

So, Bonaduce expert that he is in lowering that common denominator is quite right about ratings driven television. Much like with "The View", it is up to Americans to boycott the horrendous garbage being shoveled out of our television screens each day and night. Unless we stop watching tripe volcanoes like "Survivor" and "American Idol", we'll only get more of the same. And we will deserve it.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-04 21:01|| 2007-04-04 21:01|| Front Page Top

#9 MEMRI > WHY DO THOSE WHOM INCITE VIOLENCE AGZ THE WEST CONTINUE TO LIVE THERE [or words/title to that effect]. *Post 9-11/Cold War freedom + democracy + pluralism + libertarianism in America > can argue for OWG + Socialism in America ONLY BY DEGRADING + HUMILIATING AMER, INSTEAD OF ARGUING ON OWN MERITS-ADVANTAGES. WITHDRAWING FROM IRAQ-ME + ENDING THE WAR + GETTING OUT OF IRAQ = ENDING "ONLY" "ACTIVE" "US-LED COMBAT/GROUND OPERATIONS" "IN IRAQ". IOW, the DemoLeft is trying hard NOT to say US milfors under Dubya are staying = will stay but undergo minor Iraq-specific downsizing/redux-in-scale, UNTIL SOMETHING {AMER HIROSHIMA?} INDUCES OR CAUSES A SUBSTANTIVE OR OVERWHELMING CHANGE(S).

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-04 22:49|| 2007-04-04 22:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Joe, I'd pay $20 just to webcam-watch you furiously typing that...it boggles my mind

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-04 22:53|| 2007-04-04 22:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Not to mention making you cross eyed!
I'll wait for the DVD.
;)

Posted by DanNY 2007-04-04 23:11|| 2007-04-04 23:11|| Front Page Top

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