Letters to the Editor
moraliste
Published Letters: 27
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Bring back cheesy tv
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]TV is almost unwatchable.I only got a satellite hookup for the internet, and i'm already trying to figure how in this remote area ... Who am I kidding? I had the four networks for six years and got tired of making friends so I could watch something besides a cop show or revolting sitcom. I get to watch lurid crimes, natural disasters, and lying stock shills sweat blood while fools lose money on Wall Street. Which brings me to sex, and the innocent cheesy erotica of the 80's. Google-eyed women leering at shirtless hunks, soap-opera style adultery, I mean, non-family fun for the single guy. Back then nobody expected Dallas, CHIPs, Matt Houston, etc, to be any good. If you wanted quality, you watchwd Cheers or Rockford, which were dull. Sure you had to sit through forty minutes of, " Sheriff Lobo, you're a crook! " or " Ponch, will you ever learn," or whatever. But the gender war had not yet been declared, marriage and the nuclear family were known to be a raw deal and too miserable for TV, etc. What killed TV? It was dead long before reality TV, 9/11, or Everybody Loathes Raymond. Oh yeah, they deregulated the entertainment industry in 1996. GE bought NBC, Disney bought ABC, Viacom bought CBS, they all took a big hunk out of any successful innovative cable shows, the right-wing Christian nuts blustered about raunchiness or the hint of it, the feminists bean-counted every non-positive role model for little girls or crones or whatever, nobody could stand the blandness, even pot couldn't help, and to save money they began filming idiots for free ( reality TV ) and the writers and actors went on strike and soon 75% of all shows were unscripted and Tivo and DVR and YouTube ande ...
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Bring back cheesy tv
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]TV is almost unwatchable.I only got a satellite hookup for the internet, and i'm already trying to figure how in this remote area ... Who am I kidding? I had the four networks for six years and got tired of making friends so I could watch something besides a cop show or revolting sitcom. I get to watch lurid crimes, natural disasters, and lying stock shills sweat blood while fools lose money on Wall Street. Which brings me to sex, and the innocent cheesy erotica of the 80's. Google-eyed women leering at shirtless hunks, soap-opera style adultery, I mean, non-family fun for the single guy. Back then nobody expected Dallas, CHIPs, Matt Houston, etc, to be any good. If you wanted quality, you watchwd Cheers or Rockford, which were dull. Sure you had to sit through forty minutes of, " Sheriff Lobo, you're a crook! " or " Ponch, will you ever learn," or whatever. But the gender war had not yet been declared, marriage and the nuclear family were known to be a raw deal and too miserable for TV, etc. What killed TV? It was dead long before reality TV, 9/11, or Everybody Loathes Raymond. Oh yeah, they deregulated the entertainment industry in 1996. GE bought NBC, Disney bought ABC, Viacom bought CBS, they all took a big hunk out of any successful innovative cable shows, the right-wing Christian nuts blustered about raunchiness or the hint of it, the feminists bean-counted every non-positive role model for little girls or crones or whatever, nobody could stand the blandness, even pot couldn't help, and to save money they began filming idiots for free ( reality TV ) and the writers and actors went on strike and soon 75% of all shows were unscripted and Tivo and DVR and YouTube ande ...
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Re: ABC miscalculated; you heard it here first
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's tine for a true intellectual with tatste to take over. Annhilate the trend to female 14-44. Like Sex in the City and chick flix, nobody with an IQ above Barbara Mikulski wathes that dreck. Men in Trees --- please, Grey's Anatomy? Skews over 55. Right there with Katie Couric's colostomy bag. Face it - you can't pass a law to give the wnba a 30 share, Lansing. It's over. The American public loves Hard Men - the cops, bouncers, gang bangers and other human scum who make the world go round. Sopranos, Deadwood, 300. Men. Not meteros, quasiheteros, or other genetic abominations of a sexless, Alduous hbuxley electroworld. Lansing, youre days are as numbered as those of your factotums, Bush and Rove. Pansies and chickenhawks, LBJs and McNamaras. This is the dawning of the age of ... Sarah Silverman. Hate speech. Nazism without the inconvenient antismitism - a world of idiots with arthur c clark weapons. Let the New Gladsiator Games begin ! James Joyce, etc.
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bionic grrl
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure bionic woman is as bad as you say, h.h. It only takes me a few seconds to hate a show. The surly, tough chick attitude of the protagonist is a. done to death b. Always has been bs from a real world standpoint. Even liberal white male pushovers like I hate this new ugly development. It's a cliche which has not earned the right to be a cliche yet. Pure politics. Ironically, for the supposed Machiavellian savvy of TV executives, not even justified by TV ratings or box office receipts. As for the new shows, Private Practice is surprisingly innocuous, low on male hunk-or-nebbish pandering, thus acceptable-moreso than the most overrated shows on TV, Grey's Anatomy and Men in Trees, which gets the same ratings as Carpooling but of course nothing but praise from so-called entertainment journalists. All in all, aside from Sopranos reruns, South Park ( sometimes), and a few other glimmers, the vast wasteland just keeps getting vaster.
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Sexiest Men Hogwash
[Read the article: Sexiest Man Living 2007]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This gives new meaning to vanity press. Reverse sexism. Why not just turn this into a CFNM site? Actually, you'd advertise better. Sex in the City was always too prudish, and so is the Paglia-do-me-sexist-feminist: just another mercenary, cruising for the lonely idiot male ( convicted ) to tick;e the soles of her feet ( metaphorically ) as she gazes longingly upon the useless parasitical male stripper of her desire. Keep up the good work.