The Wasteland
I still think sports is the best thing on television.
News, I am not so sure of.
I was positioned next to a television for dinner at a casual restaurant tonight. CNN Headline News devoted significant time to the following stories:
*Obese lady sentenced after smothering lover.
*Mom makes kid kill hampster.
When I see stuff like that on telvision, I am reminded of the controversial, but on-target comment made by former F.C.C Chairman Newton Minow.
When television is good, nothing-- not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers-- nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep you eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.
He wasn't talking about a Cowboys-Vikings game.
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Wasteland
I listen to the news at night on local TV..WATE quite frankly, and I find it difficult to bear National news or programming offered anywhere on the standard 3 free TV networks. I quit watching TV except for local news and TCM occasionally, U.T. things, as well as a few things on Public TV.
The blood and gore of standard fare wherein one is forced to see in extreme close up, grieving people or grievous wounds or hear the suffering of another is just too much for me. I prefer to read or be outside.
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