[thechat] When you're happy and you know it bomb Iraq

Luther, Ron Ron.Luther at hp.com
Fri Jan 24 16:29:00 CST 2003


Erika said:

>>And here's the best friend of the woman who ran over her cheating
>>husband repeatedly with the $60,000 mercedes..." so when did you find
>>out he had a mistress?  And how did you find out about his death?
>>And what was that like?"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Hey hey now ... it was a $70,000 benz!    ;-P

(Local Houston story - she circled the parking lot and ran over him 4 times,
then backed over him once ... but hey ... the defense attorneys are claiming
it was an accident. <shrug />)

Personally I try not to watch the news unless I really need to catch the
weather forecast.  95% of the time I find the level of reporting to be
slightly less believable than the average 'infomercial'. [Note to news
executives: Let's replace Peter Jennings with Ron Popeil - that man can
sell anything!]

Shooot ... I have to turn the sound off to watch the Olympics cuz it makes
me sick to hear "Some foreign guy won, but AN AMERICAN finished 217th ... our
best finish *ever* in this sport, let's go now to a live interview with
the 217th place finisher." Damn 'homers' tick me off. (1)

Why hasn't Rudy complained about the sportcasters during the playoffs? This
has to have been the absolute worst coverage ever ... they've just made err
after err. [Example: "We'll see how they do now. Their 'ball control' offense
chewed up a lot of clock on their last possession."  This was after the team
in question's last position was a single play - a long pass for a TD. It
"chewed up" less than 20 seconds. ???] They've put the wrong quarterbacks
on the wrong teams. Referred to big plays by the wrong players ... Lots
of mistakes.

Hmmm ... thinking about it now I think it's more a general 'dumbing down'
of _everything_ on TV.  Science?  *cough*Die_Cousteau_Die*cough*

Very little of educational value IMO.

Although, there was a nice program on PBS recently about Coelacanths.

I guess that's one reason I read.

RonL.
(Who learned about accurate news reporting during 'Nam. I'd listen to the US
news on the TV, then go over the neighbor kid's house and listen to the news
from the other side via short wave radio ... it was almost as entertaining as
it was enlightening.)

(1) A derogatory term used for 'announcers' who constantly shill for the home
team.




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