Tragedy: Last night I sat down to watch "Lost" and "Alias" on ABC, the only two TV shows that I watch regularly. The rest suck. I'd watch more WB shows but I don't get the Wub. And I hate that frog. Anyway, I was watching Alias and the news broke in for 10-15 minutes reporting a story that there was a shooting at the Jeep Plant in Toledo. Ok, when they reported this though, they didn't have any information. The police just said there was a shooting of 3 people. Now, this is very sad. I don't want anyone hurt, but what was the point of this? There was no point. 1) The police couldn't release the name of the suspect until further investigation 2) The police couldn't release the names of the victims because their families hadn't been informed yet 3) They didn't really know what was going on. Why couldn't they just flash something? Why did they have to interview Jimbo, Juan, and Julie who knew nothing about what happened because they were at Kroger? It was so frustrating. What was worse is that they broke in earlier to report that they heard on the police scanner there was a shooting at the jeep plant. That's it. Nothing else. Come on when you know more at least!
Why did the news do this? Sure they can say that it's their duty to inform (they had no concrete information) and that most people care about that kind of stuff. I don't think I'm selfish for wanting to watch Alias instead of hearing nothing about the Jeep Plant. They knew nothing! I think that the station was trying to be the first to put the story on the air, only for bragging rights or something. Then they kept putting up information so the viewers would keep watching the station. They didn't care about the victims or their families. They cared about ratings. It was absurd.
I am tired of this media circus that is thriving around the country. Why not report the NEWS instead of turning every event into a disaster, an armageddon? The news is so sensationalized and so dramatized that it is ridiculous. Broadcast all you want with your "good intentions" but everyone knows its crap. The news is dead. It's not my problem that I would rather watch Alias than your uninformative report. You turn people's tragedies into your ratings feast, your sideshow drama, your soap opera. How dare you.
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Right on. I think you should write a letter to ABC News. It's beyond ridiculous.
Beckie
Right on Ryan!
On a side note, I *should* have a copy of last nights episode if you'd like to borrow it. Mike got me Nero (THANKS MIKE!!!), so now I can burn DVDs.
I think I'm going to buy some DVD-RW's so I can loan tv to friends, then re-use the DVDs. I shall buy them tonight. I still need to get Earthsea for you. I'll be like Netflix, but without the free shipping and less selection, but free!
Jay,
Do you have some sort of PVR? If so, what are you using (hardware and software)? I have SageTV with 2 Happauge PVR250s and a PVR500... 4 Channels of TV-y goodness. Now I need much more harddrive space.
I would have offered to make a copy of my tape, but the technophiles already beat me to it. What I saw of it was good. I was drifting in and out of sleep and anger. Why couldn't I sleep through crappy Smallville and be awake for Alias?
Actually last night's Smallville was suprisingly good. And there was no Clark/Lex homoeroticism. Alias was good too, what's with the bowling? And the Cadillac ad that was the dealership sequence?
I think that Jay uses "Snapstream" on his computer as his PVR. I'm not sure though. I think it got bought out by another company.
Thanks Jay. I can't wait. Alias and Legend of Earthsea. I will be content. If you want me to buy you any DVD-/+R/RW let me know. I thought they were not cheap.
I use Snapstream Beyond TV and 1 Hauppauge PVR-250. I guess they have a new Hauppauge card that has two tuners on one card. Pretty cool.
I have yet to need more than one tuner, but I think Beyond TV supports up to like 6 now or something. I love their Firefly remote too...it's faboo.
The card that has two tuners is the PVR500... I have one and it's pretty cool. I have 4 tuners that more often than not are all working at the same time during primetime. On the SageTV forums there are a quite a few people who also use BeyondTV.
That sounds like a very cool setup! When I have money sometime I'd like to make a new PVR using a Shuttle or something small like that.
I love my PVR so much. I have it record the Daily Show and some cartoons and compress them to play on my iPAQ so I can watch them on the treadmill at the gym. It may look geeky, but geek is the new cool.
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