Post #148064 by donhonyc on Sun, Mar 20, 2005 10:48 PM

On 2005-03-18 18:10, Shipwreckjoey wrote:
It's all part of living in...BIZARROWORLD! Where up becomes down, left becomes right and molehills become mountains (and, obviously vice-verse). A world where "news" stories are reveiwed by spin doktors and PR men to make sure they don't ruin ratings. A world where TV producers can forget about the worries and burden of creating new and interesting shows in favor of just sending hack, muckraking "journalists" into the streets to film "the spectacle" and call it "reality TV". I honestly think this trvial crap is thrown in our face to divert our attention from...oh shit, I spilled my drink. I'll continue this rant later.

Hey...clean up that drink yet Shipwreck?

You bring up a good point which is that most of us here at TC had the good fortune to grow up in a time when 'journalism' meant telling the news from a pretty much factual, non-spin angle. There are still some of the old-timers out there workin' ie. some om the '60 Minutes' crew (and don't jump on me about Dan Rather) and that's cool. But the point I'm trying to make is that the current young generation doesn't know dick about Cronkite, Harry Reasoner, Frank Reynolds (remember him), and cast of others that could give a rats-ass about ratings and wanted to report the NEWS. Today it's just a buncha hot chicks on CNN (that is not an anti-feminist statement). I hope you know what I'm talking about.

Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.