The Vast Wasteland of 24-Hour News Channels
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What's sometime more effective is to write to their sponsors and tell them you are not going to turn the channel on until they get back on the ground.
Nobody wants to die from anthrax, but so far hasn't just one person passed away from it, that was 73? If I'm not mistaken 2-400 people die every year from the flu or from taking the flu vaccine.
In all this talk of "terrorists" I'm always a bit blown away that there are a group of terrorists operating in this country, have been for decades, currently they are getting no media coverage and they are killing 6-8000 people a year and every year.
They are DRUNK DRIVERS, and I believe 6-8000 per year is the number of deaths due to alcohol and a car. Now some of those are accidents where they kill only themselves, but that happens with satchel charge carrying folks too.
There is no coverage of this. I used to think only airplane crashes were covered because 50-100 people died at one time in one place, but these anthrax cases are burped up like each one is the end of the world. Geez I'm scared, but not of anthrax, try stroke, heart attack, cancer and about 200 other things out there lying dormant in my genes.
Did you now that 279,999,999 people in the US did NOT die of anthrax today?
And the news coverage, I wish more people could have caught a skit on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central (cable channel) the other night, it was fantastic. He did a mock "CNN type broadcast" the words scrolling on the bottom kept getting bigger and bigger and going faster and faster, then I think there was another row going in another direction. The scrolling news got more and more hilarious until you felt your death was going to happen any minute.
Used to be these scrolling messages were to tell you the important stuff, like your soap opera would be seen immediately following the disaster, now they run it all the time and repeat stuff only a news addict would want to see, over and over and over.
Add the titles they love, AMERICA'S NEW WAR etc etc ad nauseum.
I turn it on a local channel a couple of times a day, if the normal broadcast is happening I know the world is still there, or just check the 4-5 headlines on Yahoo when I'm logging on to get my tractorbynet relief.
It's kind of like a car accident, everybody looks. In this case there's nothing you can do about it, nobody to go take on down the block, might as well go back to whatever you have to do with your life.
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Nobody wants to die from anthrax, but so far hasn't just one person passed away from it, that was 73? If I'm not mistaken 2-400 people die every year from the flu or from taking the flu vaccine.
In all this talk of "terrorists" I'm always a bit blown away that there are a group of terrorists operating in this country, have been for decades, currently they are getting no media coverage and they are killing 6-8000 people a year and every year.
They are DRUNK DRIVERS, and I believe 6-8000 per year is the number of deaths due to alcohol and a car. Now some of those are accidents where they kill only themselves, but that happens with satchel charge carrying folks too.
There is no coverage of this. I used to think only airplane crashes were covered because 50-100 people died at one time in one place, but these anthrax cases are burped up like each one is the end of the world. Geez I'm scared, but not of anthrax, try stroke, heart attack, cancer and about 200 other things out there lying dormant in my genes.
Did you now that 279,999,999 people in the US did NOT die of anthrax today?
And the news coverage, I wish more people could have caught a skit on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central (cable channel) the other night, it was fantastic. He did a mock "CNN type broadcast" the words scrolling on the bottom kept getting bigger and bigger and going faster and faster, then I think there was another row going in another direction. The scrolling news got more and more hilarious until you felt your death was going to happen any minute.
Used to be these scrolling messages were to tell you the important stuff, like your soap opera would be seen immediately following the disaster, now they run it all the time and repeat stuff only a news addict would want to see, over and over and over.
Add the titles they love, AMERICA'S NEW WAR etc etc ad nauseum.
I turn it on a local channel a couple of times a day, if the normal broadcast is happening I know the world is still there, or just check the 4-5 headlines on Yahoo when I'm logging on to get my tractorbynet relief.
It's kind of like a car accident, everybody looks. In this case there's nothing you can do about it, nobody to go take on down the block, might as well go back to whatever you have to do with your life.
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I sure won't get rid of my TV, you've heard of the cartoon channel, history channel, espn 1-33, etc?
Sooner or later there will be the tractor channel and I'll never get anything done outside (until I get the monitor mounted on the tractor).
I'm waiting for Mark Chalkley to hit the board again so I can know how to mount it properly.../w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
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Sooner or later there will be the tractor channel and I'll never get anything done outside (until I get the monitor mounted on the tractor).
I'm waiting for Mark Chalkley to hit the board again so I can know how to mount it properly.../w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
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>>Sooner or later there will be the tractor channel
We actually HAVE a tractor channel..well sort of, we have dish network and way up inthe obscure end of the programs, near the foreign language channels is an agricutlrure channel or something like that and they pretty much just alternate between tractors and horses..."Classic Tractors" is pretty funny to watch...real low budget stuff, but entertaining.
We actually HAVE a tractor channel..well sort of, we have dish network and way up inthe obscure end of the programs, near the foreign language channels is an agricutlrure channel or something like that and they pretty much just alternate between tractors and horses..."Classic Tractors" is pretty funny to watch...real low budget stuff, but entertaining.
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<font color=blue>Just turn it off. Works real well</font color=blue>
You obviously don't know my wife. If I turned her TV off, that would be more hazardous to my health than the terrorists./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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You obviously don't know my wife. If I turned her TV off, that would be more hazardous to my health than the terrorists./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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