Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Passing Time and the News

I once took a history course on American pop culture. The professor pointed out that at least a few of the students in the class were the last generation that will remember what used to happen to TV around midnight. Do you remember? Believe it or not they all went to a screen with colored bars sometimes accompanied with an annoying screeching sound. Are you that old?

Well, today thanks to cable TV the fun never ends. On news stations they are forced to fill the time with everything but nothing. One of the more annoying things that they do is turn to us, the public, to tell them what to think. This do this through emails, voicemails, twatters, texting and polls. So when I saw this clip I laughed out loud because it is truly a pet peeve of mine. Check it out.

5 comments:

Janna said...

Ha! Funny.

We're on the last disc of Season 1 of Mad Man. Love it!

Janna said...

Duh...I meant Mad Men.

Mamie said...

I remember that.

that makes me feel old.

Katrine said...

That is funny! I've often wondered where they find their 90 something percent.

Paul said...

That was pretty funny and true.