I need to apologize for anyone expecting critique RIGHT NOW. I and a friend are currently taking pictures of a several decade old doll collection that I am going to list on E Bay with severe minimums before the Holidays. They are gorgeous dolls and my friend has a 'Store Window' on E Bay. I just feel like it's time to let go of them. This program aires multiple times during the night and I have to post Morning Papers today and start tomorrows so I'll catch it some time before morning.
The second hour is always a drag and assautive because LA is targeted.
Later.
Thank you.
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
15 biggest pop-culture regrets of 2005
By Dusty Smith
For the Dayton Daily News
Every Thanksgiving entertainment hacks across the country compile a list of the pop-culture things for which they are thankful. And I am one of those hacks.
However, this isn't Thanksgiving. It's the week after Thanksgiving. Which is not a day of thanks. It's a day of regrets. Whether it was the eight-hour drive, the fifth piece of pie or that horrible, insulting, unforgivable (yet totally accurate) thing you said to your mother-in-law, with a week to reflect on it, today is about guilt and remorse (for me, anyway).
So with that in mind, here are my 15 biggest pop-culture regrets of the past year. No, there's no significance to that number. It's just how many I happened to think of.
I REGRET...
•That Eminem has given up both drugs and relevance.
•That not even Aaron Brown's folksy charm could save him.
By Dusty Smith
For the Dayton Daily News
Every Thanksgiving entertainment hacks across the country compile a list of the pop-culture things for which they are thankful. And I am one of those hacks.
However, this isn't Thanksgiving. It's the week after Thanksgiving. Which is not a day of thanks. It's a day of regrets. Whether it was the eight-hour drive, the fifth piece of pie or that horrible, insulting, unforgivable (yet totally accurate) thing you said to your mother-in-law, with a week to reflect on it, today is about guilt and remorse (for me, anyway).
So with that in mind, here are my 15 biggest pop-culture regrets of the past year. No, there's no significance to that number. It's just how many I happened to think of.
I REGRET...
•That Eminem has given up both drugs and relevance.
•That not even Aaron Brown's folksy charm could save him.
Actually, Aaron Brown received far better ratings than Cooper could ever hope to.
CNN is the government news channel after a rift with them a few years back. The 10 PM hour and 11 PM hour aires at 7 PM and 8 PM on the west coast. The Bush White House, primarily Karl Rove whom has CNN in his back pocket wanted to 'affect' California and at the same time 'target' cities like South Central LA because Bush's programs to reform the inner city isn't working.
In Rove's opinion Aaron Brown was attracting the 'younger' set. But. No one could ever accuse him of NOT providing quality journalism with a moral tilt. He did that. CNN and Rove thought they could make a 'ratings' killing post Katrina with Cooper and knock out the crime and povert centers of the country to promote success in Bush's agenda.
There was no sound reason for Aaron to be asked to leave. It was all based on 'jazz and hope.' You know how these idiots are; they treat viewers as if they don't have a brain in their head and the media is all powerful. So, Aaron, a man paid $1.5 million for 5 years all of a sudden is a moron and a mistake while Cooper is THE FUTURE OF BROADCAST JOURNALISM. I sincerely hope not because then I truly have misguided the good taste of my own children. Anderson is a 'debutant' without a date. Pretty face but going nowhere !
News without screaming and prejudice
A nightly ritual for my wife and me was to watch Aaron Brown at 9 p.m. on CNN, Monday through Friday. This came after the screaming O'Reilly and others like him. It was so nice to have someone present the news without showing extreme prejudice one way or the other.
The firing of Aaron Brown probably had something to do with ratings, but I wrote CNN letting them know my feelings about it, and I even wrote Larry King, who was his best friend, and told him he should change networks.
As for Anderson Cooper, who took Aaron's place, we no longer watch the 9 p.m. news hour. He's another young man on the rise, and if he steps on someone's back on the way, so be it.
Joseph H. SimpsonAmite
In Rove's opinion Aaron Brown was attracting the 'younger' set. But. No one could ever accuse him of NOT providing quality journalism with a moral tilt. He did that. CNN and Rove thought they could make a 'ratings' killing post Katrina with Cooper and knock out the crime and povert centers of the country to promote success in Bush's agenda.
There was no sound reason for Aaron to be asked to leave. It was all based on 'jazz and hope.' You know how these idiots are; they treat viewers as if they don't have a brain in their head and the media is all powerful. So, Aaron, a man paid $1.5 million for 5 years all of a sudden is a moron and a mistake while Cooper is THE FUTURE OF BROADCAST JOURNALISM. I sincerely hope not because then I truly have misguided the good taste of my own children. Anderson is a 'debutant' without a date. Pretty face but going nowhere !
News without screaming and prejudice
A nightly ritual for my wife and me was to watch Aaron Brown at 9 p.m. on CNN, Monday through Friday. This came after the screaming O'Reilly and others like him. It was so nice to have someone present the news without showing extreme prejudice one way or the other.
The firing of Aaron Brown probably had something to do with ratings, but I wrote CNN letting them know my feelings about it, and I even wrote Larry King, who was his best friend, and told him he should change networks.
As for Anderson Cooper, who took Aaron's place, we no longer watch the 9 p.m. news hour. He's another young man on the rise, and if he steps on someone's back on the way, so be it.
Joseph H. SimpsonAmite
DEATH RIG BOSSES 'KNEW OF PIPE LEAK
OIL rig bosses knew about a leaking pipe weeks before two workers were gassed to death, it was claimed yesterday.
Technicians found the pipe, which had been patched up in November 2002, was still leaking during checks the following summer.
But a supervisor on the Brent Bravo platform said it was a "known leak" and told them to carry on, operator technician Paul Adie told a fatal accident inquiry in Aberdeen.
Weeks later, Sean McCue,22, and Keith Moncrieff, 45, died after they were sent to the same place to check the fault Sean, of Kennoway, Fife, and Keith, from Invergowrie, near Dundee, were overcome by a sudden release of gas as they worked in the utility leg of the rig off Shetland in September 2003.
Paul, 35, of Kintore, near Aberdeen, was in charge of the control room when an alarm went off from the utility leg.
He said: "I shouted, 'Sean' into the radio. He said the leak was pouring out and he needed a key to close the valve.
"I went to look for the key, but I couldn't see it - and then another gas alarm interrupted me."
On Monday, Shell UK - who have already been fined £900,000 over the case - admitted there had been failures that led to the deaths.
The inquiry continues.
OIL rig bosses knew about a leaking pipe weeks before two workers were gassed to death, it was claimed yesterday.
Technicians found the pipe, which had been patched up in November 2002, was still leaking during checks the following summer.
But a supervisor on the Brent Bravo platform said it was a "known leak" and told them to carry on, operator technician Paul Adie told a fatal accident inquiry in Aberdeen.
Weeks later, Sean McCue,22, and Keith Moncrieff, 45, died after they were sent to the same place to check the fault Sean, of Kennoway, Fife, and Keith, from Invergowrie, near Dundee, were overcome by a sudden release of gas as they worked in the utility leg of the rig off Shetland in September 2003.
Paul, 35, of Kintore, near Aberdeen, was in charge of the control room when an alarm went off from the utility leg.
He said: "I shouted, 'Sean' into the radio. He said the leak was pouring out and he needed a key to close the valve.
"I went to look for the key, but I couldn't see it - and then another gas alarm interrupted me."
On Monday, Shell UK - who have already been fined £900,000 over the case - admitted there had been failures that led to the deaths.
The inquiry continues.
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