The Last Remnants....
The Last Remnants....
Your old pal Big Stupid Tommy gave up on the cable news outlets several years back. The last vestige of the Old Republic just got swept away....
Miles O'Brien, and the rest of CNN's Science/Tech News division, are no longer part of the cable news network.
I've never really been a news junkie, so it wasn't a major change in life when I stopped watching any of the channels regularly...gosh, I'd reckon it's probably been since the idiocy surround the 2000 Florida recount that I threw my hands up in disgust and walked away.
And while my irritation on the whole surrounds the axe everybody has to grind over one political bias or the other, my issue with CNN is slightly more focused...it's that it's made a nearly complete transition into the Celebrity News Network. It had been going on a while, but my first real notice was when I got the Urgent News Update e-mail that Tony Randall had died.
It's not on par with having Price is Right interrupted by a Special News Report, only to have that Special Report end up being George W stepping out into the Rose Garden, just wanting to say Hi....but it's close.
(I think that's a small commentary on this world we live in since 2001...but anytime that Special Report music starts up in the middle of network teevee, I tend to stop what I'm doing....hence my irritation when anything less than a dirty bomb going off in the middle of Manhattan is what they've interrupted my day of couch potatoism for...)
I dunno. The Science/Tech e-mails were about the only thing on CNN of any redeeming value. Aside from the fact that he shared a name with a Star Trek character, I always dug Miles O'Brien's passion...he always struck me as a dork, like me. I'm gonna miss it, but I figure Miles will show up somewhere soon.
Yeah...can't go to CNN.com without a story about Brad Pitt, so I'll just get my news from other sources. I was about to mention that CNN's Hurricane coverage is about as entertaining as anybody's...but this year we had Geraldo Rivera losing his mind in Louisiana this past fall, so I'm thinking Fox took that particular cake.
Your old pal Big Stupid Tommy gave up on the cable news outlets several years back. The last vestige of the Old Republic just got swept away....
Miles O'Brien, and the rest of CNN's Science/Tech News division, are no longer part of the cable news network.
I've never really been a news junkie, so it wasn't a major change in life when I stopped watching any of the channels regularly...gosh, I'd reckon it's probably been since the idiocy surround the 2000 Florida recount that I threw my hands up in disgust and walked away.
And while my irritation on the whole surrounds the axe everybody has to grind over one political bias or the other, my issue with CNN is slightly more focused...it's that it's made a nearly complete transition into the Celebrity News Network. It had been going on a while, but my first real notice was when I got the Urgent News Update e-mail that Tony Randall had died.
It's not on par with having Price is Right interrupted by a Special News Report, only to have that Special Report end up being George W stepping out into the Rose Garden, just wanting to say Hi....but it's close.
(I think that's a small commentary on this world we live in since 2001...but anytime that Special Report music starts up in the middle of network teevee, I tend to stop what I'm doing....hence my irritation when anything less than a dirty bomb going off in the middle of Manhattan is what they've interrupted my day of couch potatoism for...)
I dunno. The Science/Tech e-mails were about the only thing on CNN of any redeeming value. Aside from the fact that he shared a name with a Star Trek character, I always dug Miles O'Brien's passion...he always struck me as a dork, like me. I'm gonna miss it, but I figure Miles will show up somewhere soon.
Yeah...can't go to CNN.com without a story about Brad Pitt, so I'll just get my news from other sources. I was about to mention that CNN's Hurricane coverage is about as entertaining as anybody's...but this year we had Geraldo Rivera losing his mind in Louisiana this past fall, so I'm thinking Fox took that particular cake.
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