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Offline midnight Target

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« on: July 13, 2004, 07:10:53 PM »
Duh!

Our local news just broke in between commercials to give this breaking report:

"Fewer people can afford homes as prices rise.......Suntans make you feel ...sunny! News at 11:00."


ROFL

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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2004, 07:39:44 PM »
Maybe it was an ad for the new Will Farrell movie.

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« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2004, 08:08:14 PM »
Pretty much all television news makes me go Duh! or WTF! or just puke on the carpet.  That is why I quit watching TV years ago.  Here, I can come and get news and then TELL the messenger how fluff'n stupid they are.

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« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2004, 09:01:43 PM »
90% of "TV news" is not news at all, it is opinion by "experts", well they do have 24/7 of air time to fill.

right back after this break.

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« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2004, 09:23:47 PM »
The NBC station in Dallas has slumped to that. The are "Live, Local, and Late Breaking". Unfortunately most of their "late breaking" news is not news. i.e. "Now this late breaking story you will see only on NBC5! Chopper 5 is now giving us exclusive pictures of the scene where an apartment fire was extenguished. Crews are now in the clean up stage. We will stay on top of this develpoing story!"

The story was the fire, not a truck sitting there doing mop up. The reason they were exclusive pics is nobody else in town wasted the time to look at a parked firetruck.

They also replaced the weekend weather guy that was here for 20 years with some kid from Philly. How do I know he's from Philly? He gave the Philly forecast as the local forecast for Dallas.
I guess he forgot where he was. Personally I want the guy with 20 years experience watching the weather patterns that spawn tornadoes, instead of the nephew of the station manager that can't rip the right forecast off the teletype.
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« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2004, 09:17:16 AM »
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90% of "TV news" is not news at all, it is opinion by "expert"


Yeah, damn "experts" with their decades of education, experience and knowledge!  What do they know?  :mad:

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« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2004, 09:19:10 AM »
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Yeah, damn "experts" with their decades (if not decades) of education, experience and knowledge!  :mad:


The press belongs to guys.  is it any wonder??

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« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2004, 09:21:58 AM »
Moscow on flames...Russian missles headed towards the capital...film at 11:00


Your child could be in grave danger!.. film at 11:00

The popcorn your eating has been pi**ed in...film at 11:00

Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2004, 09:23:21 AM »
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The press belongs to guys.  is it any wonder??


Sig material? Wishing the press belonged to gals?

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« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2004, 09:23:25 AM »
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Duh!

Our local news just broke in between commercials to give this breaking report:

"Fewer people can afford homes as prices rise.......Suntans make you feel ...sunny! News at 11:00."


ROFL


If it were Fox 11, News at 10:00 it would have been

Fewer People can afford to rid their houses of a DEADLY MENACE!...... Suntans WILL KILL YOU!

The LA Fox Station has the... worst... "news"... Evar!!!1!!11!

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« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2004, 09:32:43 AM »
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Sig material? Wishing the press belonged to gals?


Actually the term could be used interchangably when referring to liberal dems.  without a physical examination involving high quality magnification instrumentation it's hard to tell the guys from the gals.  you look and sound the same!

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« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2004, 09:36:23 AM »
lol....  and it begins all over again.........

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« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2004, 09:43:51 AM »
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lol....  and it begins all over again.........


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« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2004, 09:59:05 AM »
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The NBC station in Dallas has slumped to that...


Things must have calmed down there since the Cowboys' heyday in the 90's...by comparison, it must be a sleepy little town by now.

A Philly weatherman in dallas? I'm suprised he's been allowed to walk upright in Cowboy Country:rolleyes:

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« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2004, 10:40:59 AM »
I love listening to the news updates during commercial breaks,
Anytime there is a breaking news story around the world, I can guarantee that the next news break will start with this line,

Today, so and so happened, stay tuned to for THE CHICAGO CONNECTION !!

lol, I crack up everytime :)


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