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March 8, 2015
Because no one wants to look at old hags,
TV is dominated by young hyper-attractive people. Most of whom are as dumb as a goldfish, but they can read from a teleprompter without moving their eyes.The job is to grab and keep the viewer’s attention. Similarly, the Interwebs is run by the young and those who pretend to be young. Therefore the language is geared for a high school level viewer. Again, it’s about getting and holding the attention of the people. The problem, of course is that you end up with former mall cops pretending to be experts. They are interviewed by guys like Brian Williams, who are lost in a fantasy world and probably in need of psychiatric help. From the perspective of TV, it makes no difference if the opinions and experts are batshit crazy, just as long as they get and keep an audience. MSNBC had a nice run with this model. Evolution Versus Mass Media at The Z Blog
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 8, 2015 12:16 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
On the morning news here we have four individuals. One with a pair of large echo chambers who does a decent job as long as she doesn't stray from the weather format.
At the other end of the table is a late 40-early 50 something traffic guy who punctuates his commentary with "for sure" every two sentences.
The center piece is a Ken and another busty big un (not fat) who bring new meaning to the word vapid. Whatever qualifications they have to be anchors are flukes. (Punnny) They not only abuse what ever vocabulary they have they waterboard it, shove toothpicks under the gerunds and generally transform nouns into verbs and visa versa. And it wouldn't be too much to know what the word actually means.
One would think that prior to going on the air, they would learn the correct pronunciation for locations and persons names. I've heard a Creole pronounce English words more precisely.
If you notice, one cann't e-mail these shows anymore. You have to go through Facebook which screens all commentary. The babbling faces never see the negative lest it put them on Welbutrin for a month.
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at March 8, 2015 4:56 PM
Forget it, Jake. It's television.
Posted by: Rob De Witt at March 8, 2015 8:56 PM