Dredd, you are so lucky. I still have my tv. I've needed to borrow a vehicle to take it to the dump for many years now.
Take the big step and trash it, man. I promise you won't miss the POS. It's one less bill to pay and honestly, what's there to watch on it that's worth the expense? Alternately, keep the boob tube but ditch the cable bill - I'm happy watching DVDs on my computer, but YMMV.
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I always despised the media, having had observed some of them when I was a child. But I think what really "did it" for me was when there was a double sexual abduction years ago, and the girls escaped. The cameraman used a tight shot on one of the teen's buttocks in ripped shorts. If our society has lost all morality, the media led the charge downhill.
For me it was the rise of 24 hour cable news in the early-mid 90s, especially when that OJ Simpson nonsense went into hyperdrive in '95. I was in college at the time and there was a pack of students downstairs from me who were glued to the set every second they weren't in class. To this day, I can't fathom why people have such a strong sweet tooth for such trash.
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from what I've read both the prosecution and defense presented sloppy nonsensical cases, but the onus of proof is on the prosecution and that broke the stalemate of incompetence
Well stated.
Sidenote: Yesterday, I noticed that Nancy Grace is still doing her thing and had been yapping about this trial for a long time. I imagine she had her viewers totally convinced that the defendant was either a vile murderer or a saint.
For those of you who don't know who Nancy Grace is, she's a shrill, incompetent, useless asshole who yaps about sensational trials and ensures that anybody foolish enough to listen soon becomes as incapable of being objective as she is. I can't help but facepalm every time I think about all the hyper-opinionated "pseudo jurors" she's probably mentored.|||Quote:
For me it was the rise of 24 hour cable news in the early-mid 90s, especially when that OJ Simpson nonsense went into hyperdrive in '95. I was in college at the time and there was a pack of students downstairs from me who were glued to the set every second they weren't in class. To this day, I can't fathom why people have such a strong sweet tooth for such trash.
hollywood murders are the best murders
/goes back to reading James Ellroy novel|||this was totally off my radar until the verdict, and I read a little about it. sounds like she probably did it, but they had a pretty shaky case the and the prosecution presented it weakly and didn't follow up on everything they should have.
still, I don't get why it's such a big deal. It's weird but it seems like mostly only the womenfolk care. maybe it's a mom-kid thing. I dunno, maybe it's just like that in my little circle.|||The verdict actually gave me a slight bit of hope for our society. When the media talking heads and court of public opinion were all screaming for Casey to get the needle before a single word had been uttered in a courtroom, that a group of 12 jurors could ignore all of that and reach a unanimous verdict that the prosecutor had failed to prove its case, well, that says something about the objectivity of our courtroom, whether or not the verdict rendered was actually correct.
But then I saw people posting death threats against the jurors because they didn't follow their "gut" instinct instead of what was presented to them by the prosecution.
Nevermind, we're screwed.|||Quote:
Take the big step and trash it, man. I promise you won't miss the POS. It's one less bill to pay and honestly, what's there to watch on it that's worth the expense? Alternately, keep the boob tube but ditch the cable bill - I'm happy watching DVDs on my computer, but YMMV.
I watch nearly no TV as well (maybe 1-2 hours a week), but I still have one. Sometimes there's something interesting running on on public service television (which comes with NO ADS DURING A BROADCAST here), like documentaries or a major football match, I'm wqatching it. However, I miss most of that because I don't care enough about informing myself in a TV magazine.|||Quote:
Sometimes there's something interesting running on on public service television (which comes with NO ADS DURING A BROADCAST here),
The one thing I remember about German TV was that the ads were often the best thing about German TV.
Back on thread, at least one expected revenue stream has closed to "America's Sweetheart". I find it kind of reassuring in a weird way that Vivid Entertainment has more class than to deal with this woman.|||People usually miss what they currently don't have
.You mean Clementine from the Ariel ads, Herr Kaiser from Hamburg Mannheimer ior (my favourite when I was 5) the B�renmarke (canned milk) bear?
When you were in Germany, there probably wasn't much beyond public service TV and I agree that half of it was pretty embarassing in retrospect, as well as the attitude of the TV makers who believed that it was their job to guide, educate and lecture the people. TV didn't start before 3 PM and it ended at midnight. Thank god they got a few serious kicks into the butt when private TV was established.|||The nation periodically needs a lamb to slaughter, like in that South Park social satire about Britney Spears. The younger and whiter the lamb, the merrier!
Edit: we could be watching Arnold or Mr. Wiener in the spotlight, but this other thing had to happen.|||Quote:
When you were in Germany, there probably wasn't much beyond public service TV and I agree that half of it was pretty embarassing in retrospect,
Bingo. British TV was far superior, and the U.S. military station was spotty at best.
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Thank god they got a few serious kicks into the butt when private TV was established.
I may need to wipe coffee off my keyboard - did you just say something positive about non-socialist enterprise?|||I don't get why there was a trial anyway. Isn't killing your children a constitutional right? Something about a "right to privacy" or something?
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