Headline News (kinda lame)

The BBQ Pit
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What happened to you HEADLINE NEWS?

Why is it that EVERY TIME I TURN YOU ON, you are focused on SHOWBIZ SPOTLIGHT or whatever the fuck it is you call it now!???

I don’t give a shit who Jennifer Aniston is now seeing, or what fucking dress miss eating disorder hollywood actress bitch is wearing today, and yet, this is ALL I SEE WHEN I TURN YOU ON! What the FUCK!???

Maybe I’m just turning you on every day at the same time, but I’m sorry, I can’t turn you on when I’m at work (DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS).

SHOULDN’T crap like HOLLYWOOD MINUTE be relegated to the Soap Opera time-slots, and not in the evenings?

And then, after SHOWBIZ CENTAL, Headline Sports comes on after that. There are SPECIFIC CHANNELS for sports, just as there are for petty hollywood insider gossip vomit, so why would I want to watch you for this?

What happened to when I used to be in college, and you reported actual stories that were going on, all while scrolling interesting facts from each state at the bottom of the screen? I miss the old headlline news :frowning:

AND WHILE I’M at it, I’m going to pit STORM STORIES too. At night, when I want to actually SEE THE FORECAST, my frustration mounts when I hear Jim Cantorie’s voice-over to some pictures of people who, if you didn’t know you were watching storm stories, might actually think they were dead. WHY, Weather Channel, can’t you just GIVE ME THE FUCKING WEATHER! (insert Howard Dean yelp here).

Dave Schwartz, Jim Cantore, Alexandria Steele, you’re all too good for this…

and fine, go ahead, mock me for knowing the names of the weather channel personalities

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I suspect it has something to do with money.

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Because TV news, regardless of the network, sucks ass? For that matter, so does most everything on TV.

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I’ve just about started this rant myself many times.

Headline News used to be one of the more useful things on television–any time, day or night, you could get a reasonably complete summary of the day’s news in any given half-hour. It went downhill for a long time, to the point that at least half of the news time was really just fluff. Now they abandon their format entirely for large swatches of the day, switching over to All-Fluff.

I call it MTV Creep. MTV started as all unadorned videos all the time, and slowly transformed into what you see now. Then they started MTV2, with the purpose of getting back to the old school and showing all videos, but it has long since started along the same path.

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Was the dress a Versace? Because that is *so * five minutes ago… :rolleyes:

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It could be worse: it could be Nancy Grace!

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Amen, Brother.
I had a Cronkite like trust in Bernard Shaw and haven’t found a replacement.

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She is usually on when I get home from work She makes me want to drink Drano.

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Visualizes Nancy Grace in a versace, drinking drano until her forehead hits the desk and they cut back to the “old” headline news. :smiley: