Attention, Mr. & Mrs. America And All The Ships At Sea
I'm afraid I have some bad news, and it's not good. Just look at this chart:
That's not a positive trend. But wait, this isn't the Dow Jones Industrial Average; it's the number of visitors to this blog per day for the past week.
Things have obviously gone south recently. We were doing so well, and then...crash. We really fell on hard times. What to do? How can we recapture some of the magic of Thursday, May 7th? Ah, that was the day. I remember it as if it were yesterday...and yet, it was four days ago.
So much has changed since then. Times are different. People have evolved. The situa... what? What's that? Hold on, I'm getting a news flash...
This is...this is hard to accept. The 11:00 NBC-4 New York News just led off with an earth-shattering story—one to which they devoted the entire first three minutes of the broadcast. And if I thought times were different after last Thursday, well, nothing will ever be the same after tonight. Because, with wildfires in California and a swine flu pandemic and continued death and violence in Afghanistan and the economy still in dire straits, NBC New York led off with the unbelievable news that Donald Trump has selected Joan Rivers to be the new Celebrity Apprentice! I am dumbstruck—that they dropped the story after only three minutes and went on to some other drivel. Fortunately, they promised to return to the story at 11:15, with more reactions to the startling news!
It's now 11:12 and they just ran a "teaser" previewing the continuing Celebrity Apprentice coverage coming up at 11:15! I guess I shouldn't be surprised. This is the network of Brian Williams, after all. Geniuses need not apply.
Is it me? I used to be able to watch TV news with impunity—as long as it wasn't Fox—and still feel nearly whole. Why is it only now that I'm suddenly feeling like it is literally sucking the brain out of my head? Have I changed, or has the bar abruptly dropped to the floor?
That's not a positive trend. But wait, this isn't the Dow Jones Industrial Average; it's the number of visitors to this blog per day for the past week.
Things have obviously gone south recently. We were doing so well, and then...crash. We really fell on hard times. What to do? How can we recapture some of the magic of Thursday, May 7th? Ah, that was the day. I remember it as if it were yesterday...and yet, it was four days ago.
So much has changed since then. Times are different. People have evolved. The situa... what? What's that? Hold on, I'm getting a news flash...
This is...this is hard to accept. The 11:00 NBC-4 New York News just led off with an earth-shattering story—one to which they devoted the entire first three minutes of the broadcast. And if I thought times were different after last Thursday, well, nothing will ever be the same after tonight. Because, with wildfires in California and a swine flu pandemic and continued death and violence in Afghanistan and the economy still in dire straits, NBC New York led off with the unbelievable news that Donald Trump has selected Joan Rivers to be the new Celebrity Apprentice! I am dumbstruck—that they dropped the story after only three minutes and went on to some other drivel. Fortunately, they promised to return to the story at 11:15, with more reactions to the startling news!
It's now 11:12 and they just ran a "teaser" previewing the continuing Celebrity Apprentice coverage coming up at 11:15! I guess I shouldn't be surprised. This is the network of Brian Williams, after all. Geniuses need not apply.
Is it me? I used to be able to watch TV news with impunity—as long as it wasn't Fox—and still feel nearly whole. Why is it only now that I'm suddenly feeling like it is literally sucking the brain out of my head? Have I changed, or has the bar abruptly dropped to the floor?
Posted by Jeffrey P. Morris at 5/10/2009 9:39 PM 
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: vomit nausea diarrhea cramps 'Brian Williams' 'NBC News' 'Donald Trump' 'Joan Rivers' stupidity
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: vomit nausea diarrhea cramps 'Brian Williams' 'NBC News' 'Donald Trump' 'Joan Rivers' stupidity
Is this really surprising when there are people like the man (related to my sister by marriage) who, last November, thought our newly elected president was named Rocko Bama (I kid you not). You really do have to live in a cave to have such a limited worldview. Reality doesn't penetrate the world these people live in unless it is served up as "reality TV."
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