Dizzy and Dopey–yer both out, now.
Granted, the art of headline-writing is sinking into the swamp with the rest of our civilization. Even so, you’d expect an outfit like townhall.com to do a bit better than Imam Says Journalists Should Be Beheaded During Fox News Interview.
Since the performance of, uh, “journalists” during and after the 2020 elections, the question takes on a kind of urgency. Like, maybe we should behead them?
Well, Chris Cuomo just got fired by CNN–by CNN, by cracky!–for lying like a rug and using his position to advance his brother politically. Now some other liar will take his place, and he (or she), too, will lie. Because that’s what Our Free & Independent Democrat Nooze Media does!
The headline makes more sense now than it did in 2016.
The power lies with the viewers. Don’t watch, and these jidrools can no longer sell advertising.
Are there that many people watching CNN anymore? If you took it out of airline terminals and doctors’ waiting rooms, how much of an audience would be left?
Good point, Lee. I visited an eye clinic which had a series of waiting rooms, so you’d start in the front waiting room, then they’d dilate your eyes and put you in another waiting room, with CNN blaring it’s imbecilic drivel from several TVs in the room. I refused and told them I’d be out front. If I wanted to lose brain cells, I’d sniff glue. 🙂
Our launderette is just as bad as a doctor’s waiting room–somehow “The View” is always on. But do these shows even exist without a captive audience?
This world is Satan’s playground. Things which are bad for us abound. Soda Pop is cheap and omni-available, along with any number of junk food sources. Try finding some fast food vegetables, however, and you will be frustrated.
The same is true with entertainment, which certainly describes television. I watch YouTube, and have seen videos of serious music performed in concert, along with interviews which add insight. Try finding some serious music on television, but don’t hold your breath. Most TV programming is mental junk food. The View is trite and predictable, but that also describes what passes for news programming, these days. Occasionally, I will see a YouTube clip which contains some “news” footage. Mock outrage and hypocrisy is all but ubiquitous. It’s completely transparent, but a lot of people remain fooled.
There’s a rule I use when watching anything on TV, movies, or a video clip of any sort. It’s as simple as this; everything you see is deliberately there. In a movie, if the camera zooms in on the doorknob, that knob will turn, or at least be jiggled. Now, expand that to everything you see as a video presentation and you can begin to see the will of the directors and producers shining through.
Every TV show, every movie, has a message of some kind: can’t be avoided. The trick is to see the message–and often it’s so heavy-handed, you just can’t miss it. Just as often, it’s an unwholesome message. And that’s when you decide to watch something else.
“ Every TV show, every movie, has a message of some kind: can’t be avoided. The trick is to see the message–and often it’s so heavy-handed, you just can’t miss it. Just as often, it’s an unwholesome message. And that’s when you decide to watch something else.”
There’s always an agenda. I virtually quit broadcast TV in my early twenties, after my television quit working. Within. A matter of weeks, I realized that I hated the effects that watching TV had on me. The problem with TV is that it is PROGRAMMED, to program the viewer. Television programming is a series of distractions, non sequiturs and other tactics which interrupt your concentration and soften you up to be receptive to the suggestions made in advertising. It’s basically a subtle form of hypnotism. Being free of it, for decades, I find that I can’t stand to be in the presence of TV, anymore.
News programs cast an aura of seriousness and respectability, which only heightens the effect, because viewers believe that news programming must be made with the purest of motives. Of course, it is only another form of paced entertainment which is designed to sell advertising time.
I don’t really know. Nobody I talk to ever watches or listens to any of the “major” news outlets. I don’t know how they stay in business. They must be supported by independent money.
The fact that CNN is going down the tubes and the three major Conservative Cable networks are booming is a very good sign – rejoice!
That is good to hear.