Comments | ryan_speck: Thirty-two years of truth.

ryan_speck

Thirty-two years of truth.

May 20, 2009 05:29

"Edward George Ruddy died today. Edward George Ruddy was the Chairman of the Board of the Union Broadcasting Systems, and he died at eleven o'clock this morning of a heart condition, and woe is us. We're in a lot of trouble.

So, a rich little man with white hair died. What has that got to do with the price of rice, right? And why is that woe to ( Read more... )

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supiluliumas May 20 2009, 13:15:09 UTC

"And so it came to pass that the acrobats, the performing monkeys, the circus strongmen and all the talking heads of previous eras were all pink-slipped for the unforgivable sin of no longer being cost-effective. The most powerful shaper of public opinion ever conceived was itself sidelined by the very demons it had itself summoned in order to increase its profit share. All these years of television trying to convince us that life was noble, and fun, and full of adventure, all the examples that TV dramas and the news and even the kiddy cartoons wanted us to aspire to, one day someone woke up and said, I don't want to see people being GOOD and HAPPY and the hero always winning in the end - I want to see human degradation, I want to see airhead bimbos choosing money over love, I want to see ten of the most Joe Average suckers in America turn on each other and tear themselves to pieces for a comparative pittance of which the government will take half and the rest they'll spend in four months living a life without discipline. I want ( ... )

ryan_speck May 20 2009, 22:59:30 UTC

Network's vision of television's future split into two realities: one, the debasement of TV entertainment with stupidity and reality television; the other, the transition of tabloid, dumbed-down news into 24 hour news networks, stripping news of any amount of validity and intellect.

It all came horribly true.

supiluliumas May 21 2009, 07:16:21 UTC

Probably beyond even their own worst possible nightmarish scenario! I mean - Fox News. I rest my case.

ryan_speck May 21 2009, 08:33:47 UTC

If they knew about Fox News, I'm not sure if they ever would have gotten rid of "equal time" regulations in the 80's.