Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Propaganda/Miserable Cable
So, have you gotten a load (and, yes, I've selected that term very carefully) of MSNBC's latest rating's disaster/train-wreck; a little something called the, "The Cycle"? Yeah? Well, then you've probably noticed that it's quite frankly little more than a rip-off of Fox News', "The Five". Only instead of having just one liberal (i.e., Bob Beckel) being ganged up on by a bevy of fire-breathing knuckle-dragging conservatives, this show flips it and you only have one conservative (S.E. Cupp) and a bevy of fire-breathing knuckle-dragging liberals (the absolutely despicable Toure' obviously being the worst of them). I mean, I know that these program directors are are morons and totally lack originality and all but, come on, are we so removed from the days of Mike Wallace and Tim Russert that THIS is all that's left? I sure a hell hope not.
Not a fan of either, although 'The
ReplyDeleteView' sometimes has light banter and humor. Apparently, 'The Cycle'
ratings improved some after an awful debut-
"In the fourth quarter of 2012 "The Cycle" was up 89% in 25-54-year-olds, 55% in Total Viewers and 114% among 18-34-year-olds - more growth than all other cable news programs in the hour combined"
..whatever those demographics mean.
Once the news department became a profit center, they have had to appeal to the lowest common denominator in order to satisfy their corporate overlords. So, you get shit instead of steak.
ReplyDeleteToure is so stupid that when he was bashing Herman Cain for being black (using long-defunct stereotypes apparently alive in his mind and no-one else's), he overlooked the fact that he himself is black also.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of The View, BB, wasn't CBS's The Talk a pretty brazen rip-off of THAT? No originality anywhere, it seems.............I totally hear you, Jerry. I would only counter by saying that guys like Russert, Wallace, Reasoner, and Brinkley were seemingly able to overcome that and never dumbed it down at all. It's a totally different world now, I guess.............Toure' takes black conservatism a little too personally it seems, dmarks. Angrily at times and it's thoroughly infantile.
ReplyDeleteJerry: Will is right. Was there ever a time when these networks weren't for-profit corporations? I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteWould Dean Wormer say something like, angry and infantile is no way to have a journalistic career, son?
ReplyDeletePiers Morgan makes Tourette's seem like Romper Room.
Who is "Toure" and doesn't he have a last name? Apparently he is a black guy who "overlooked" his own blackness? I'm not sure that comment makes sense (not to me, anyway).
ReplyDeleteThe networks were always for profit, but the news departments were not a profit center so they were not accounted for separately, and were not expected to make a profit. They provided a public service. The news department and the sales department were not allowed to even speak to each other.
ReplyDeleteHe was the guy who bashed Cain for being, in his view, a typical black sexual predator. He did try to pin the view on others (people who actually didn't hold these views) but the attempt ended up being as lame as a guy telling you a n***** joke and trying to get you to laugh at it... and he has the disclaimer "its not my joke, I heard it somewhere"
ReplyDeleteAnd not sure he overlooked his own blackness... it was like Toure was reading from a Democrat Party playbook that demanded that anything possible be used to destroy Cain, even racism.
ReplyDeleteNo last name? Just a sign he is a pretentious twit, not a journalist.
ReplyDeleteToure is one thing.....the name I find comical on that show is Krystal Ball....when she was born did her parents not realize their last name was Ball?
They need Pila Krapp to join the show too. And her colleague Whadda Circus.
ReplyDeleteThe Ball chick is easy on the eyes. I will concede that.
ReplyDeleteJerry: I disagree. The news center being "for profit" makes it more accountable, more likely to serve the public.
ReplyDeleteAs opposed to someone who will keep flapping his jaws into the camera whether or not anyone ever watches the channel.
Since the news is a profit center, their number one priority is to maximize viewership which maximizes advertising rates. Therefore you get high speed freeway chases and buxom weather girls instead of an indepth analysis of what is wrong with Obamacare...not that I am opposed to big tits.
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