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Gavin Scott
Founding member
Its been a while since I enjoyed the craftsmen-come-comedy act that is Ed Feldman and Joe L'Elario on TLC (as I am stuck with DTT at the mo), but was pleased to find their website a few moments ago.
I rather enjoyed this opinionated take on American News and thought I would share:
Nice to see he enjoys the Beeb too!
I rather enjoyed this opinionated take on American News and thought I would share:
Ed Feldman on furnitureguys.com posted:
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO NEWS?!!!!
At 6:30 EST, Monday-Friday, 3 Haircuts otherwise know as...Jennings, Rather and Brokaw begin to READ off the TelePrompters something that they may or may not have had any hand in writing. These programs are called, "World News Tonight", "Nightly News" or some such misrepresentative label. They may have 21 minutes plus commercials and theme music to tell us what happened that day...ON PLANET EARTH. The WHOLE stinkin' planet mind you!! And they do report the Earth's news - FOR ABOUT 6 MINUTES!
Then comes a feature
...Eye on America...Up Close and Personal...News You Can Use
Usually about money or computers or hemorrhoids...How to save money...how to can vegetables...how to pickle beets...blah, blah, blah.
So let me get this straight - there's not enough news on the planetto fill up 21 minutes before your 1 network news program turns into a newsy smarmy features page?
HOW DARE YOU!
By the way, this format is preempted if the "real" news has anything to do with the President's genitalia. Then the coverage is long, deep, probing and moist. Because THAT'S important.
So watch the BBC World News...which is real news and not crap. And by the way, on BBC Radio they introduce the people that read the news as just that...
"and now the news read by Nigel Mosstooth."
Cause remember kids - no matter how many times Dan, Tom or Peter make eye contact with you or pose in front of some newsworthy locale, all they're doing is just reading off of a TelePrompter
(for the first 6 minutes anyway).
Believe me, I know the reason behind those features. It's to make information more palatable to stupid people by making it accessable...
"See it's not just some fat Premier who can't speak English ruling a country on the news Honey...It's how much we pay for corn! It's how much we pay for canned fruit!"
But really guys, can't all that crap be dealt with by Stone Phillips or Matt Lauer or some of the younger Haircuts on their hour long moron feature programs?
I beg of you...can't Three Billion Dollar networks say, "for 21 minutes tonight, we're going to show you what happened in the World TODAY"?
If you don't like it, or it bores you or you can't understand it watch "The Simpsons"....
I know I do!
At 6:30 EST, Monday-Friday, 3 Haircuts otherwise know as...Jennings, Rather and Brokaw begin to READ off the TelePrompters something that they may or may not have had any hand in writing. These programs are called, "World News Tonight", "Nightly News" or some such misrepresentative label. They may have 21 minutes plus commercials and theme music to tell us what happened that day...ON PLANET EARTH. The WHOLE stinkin' planet mind you!! And they do report the Earth's news - FOR ABOUT 6 MINUTES!
Then comes a feature
...Eye on America...Up Close and Personal...News You Can Use
Usually about money or computers or hemorrhoids...How to save money...how to can vegetables...how to pickle beets...blah, blah, blah.
So let me get this straight - there's not enough news on the planetto fill up 21 minutes before your 1 network news program turns into a newsy smarmy features page?
HOW DARE YOU!
By the way, this format is preempted if the "real" news has anything to do with the President's genitalia. Then the coverage is long, deep, probing and moist. Because THAT'S important.
So watch the BBC World News...which is real news and not crap. And by the way, on BBC Radio they introduce the people that read the news as just that...
"and now the news read by Nigel Mosstooth."
Cause remember kids - no matter how many times Dan, Tom or Peter make eye contact with you or pose in front of some newsworthy locale, all they're doing is just reading off of a TelePrompter
(for the first 6 minutes anyway).
Believe me, I know the reason behind those features. It's to make information more palatable to stupid people by making it accessable...
"See it's not just some fat Premier who can't speak English ruling a country on the news Honey...It's how much we pay for corn! It's how much we pay for canned fruit!"
But really guys, can't all that crap be dealt with by Stone Phillips or Matt Lauer or some of the younger Haircuts on their hour long moron feature programs?
I beg of you...can't Three Billion Dollar networks say, "for 21 minutes tonight, we're going to show you what happened in the World TODAY"?
If you don't like it, or it bores you or you can't understand it watch "The Simpsons"....
I know I do!
Nice to see he enjoys the Beeb too!