Coming up next. Right after this. Stay tuned. Breaking news.
I have tired of hearing those phrases on television news programs. Those along with news readers (there use to be reporters, but no more) who overuse words such as now and obviously. On top of all that, the television people keep telling me what they're going to tell me. They tell me that 3 or 4 or more times. And then, when they do tell me what they said they would tell me, they tell me very little more than what they said they would tell me. They've gotten to be just like Entertainment Tonight and similar crap TV.
On top of all that cowchips stuff, the so-called weather forecasters keep telling me throughout the news broadcast a little bit about the weather and to stay tuned so I can learn later in the broadcast whether there is rain or sunshine in the weather forcast.
Another irritant are these less-than-intelligent donkeys who keep a ridiculous smile on their faces while reading the news to us. One long tenure female employee on a local Toledo, Ohio television station even keeps her silly looking smile on her overly made-up face when providing information of a sad and serious nature.
The result of all which has made me a former viewer of television news. With a rare exception here and there, I no longer tune into local or national ABC, CBS, NBC, or FOX news broadcasts.
I can't help but think how much more news coverage and reporting could be done if those dipwads would quit telling me what they are going to tell me and if they would quit saying "coming up next" over and over again!
4 comments:
Roland.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you ... to find out that it has taken you this long to bail on the nonsense of TV News. When they aren't ignoring the vital issues of our time to tell us about a cat stuck in a tree, they are editing a truly earth-shaking event to get it to fit in between commercials.
Like the newspaper, network news programs have yet to find their role in our ever-changing technological society. I would like to tell you that I knew what that was (so I could sell it to the networks and retire), but I don't. I do know however, that in their current form, they serve little or no useful purpose.
(Hey, isn't that the definition of pornogrpahy? OMG!)
C'mon Roland, let it all out; no sense in holding back now.
Tell us how you REALLY feel ;-)
Cathartic, isn't it?
:-)
(And, dare I add my own Amen to your wonderful rant?)
AMEN!
I also find myself watching far less news than I used to. It is kind of more and more a USA Today like mentality they have.
Oh, now, don't get me going again!
The lack of quality television news reporting is especially disheartening considering that the majority of people cite television as their major source of news information per sociological and political science studies that have been conducted.
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