Author Topic: This Robert Blake crap (Read 717 times)

hblair · « **on:** April 19, 2002, 01:55:31 PM »

It's all over CNN. The newscatsers are 'sploding with orgasmic glee. They have have "experts" and "analysts comparing to the OJ thing. They are wondering how big a story it will be.

What a bunch of amateur fools. We are in a war on terrorism, the situation in the mideast, etc. etc. and these idiots are all over this Robert Blake story with orgasmic glee. The guy was in a 3 year running cop show in the seventies. How is this newsworthy? It aint. What happened to real news? Every "news magazine" show you watch now is just a drama. Now the actual news is just a drama. Completely irrelevant sensationalism. And the Robert Blake crap is just getting started.

(can you tell how I feel about mickey mouse news?)

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** April 19, 2002, 01:57:33 PM »

Sensationalism and Chaos is $$ in the eyes of the Media.

Sandman · « **Reply #2 on:** April 19, 2002, 02:02:35 PM »

Press the button marked "POWER" on your remote controller and step away from the television.

Eagler · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2002, 02:18:01 PM »

News channels just seem to be all or nothing ... from Levy/Condit to this to the "War on Terrorism"

Guess they have to go overboard to fill 24/7 with something

Maybe a couple of folks will get shark bit this weekend and the theme will change

Hangtime · « **Reply #4 on:** April 19, 2002, 02:19:28 PM »

It was the parrot that made him do it.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #5 on:** April 19, 2002, 02:25:55 PM »

it's just because it's something new and they think they can improve their ratings.

capitalism at it's finest...

Nifty · « **Reply #6 on:** April 19, 2002, 02:34:13 PM »

Is anyone else disturbed by the fact hblair mentioned "orgasmic glee" twice in his post?

I stopped watching the news a looooong time ago. I just watch espn's sportscenter here and there.

you guys do a good enough job of a news source for me. lol

hblair · « **Reply #7 on:** April 19, 2002, 03:17:30 PM »

I'm in the office a good part of the day. We keep a TV going tuned to CNN for customers to watch. That's why I get burnt out on it.

Gunthr · « **Reply #8 on:** April 19, 2002, 03:26:43 PM »

Take the Milan plane crash for example. Its newsworthy, BUT, they take it wayyyy out of proportion. I even get the feeling that they KNEW it wasn't terrorist related, but they run those stupid "TERROR IN MILAN?" pieces, and interview NTSB investigators and everybody else and their brother - whoever will stand still long enough to answer inane questions - ad nauseum. Seems like they all do it, too.

Voss · « **Reply #9 on:** April 19, 2002, 03:58:12 PM »

I hear anyone that met Blake's wife had a reason to kill her. That's an awful thing to say about someone, but I know from first hand experience that there are people like that in this world.

Still, you'd think this would be a thirty second story and more coverage would be forthcoming over the Alaska Oil story, alternative sources in other areas, or why turtles in Florida are preventing progress.

Dago · « **Reply #10 on:** April 19, 2002, 04:46:12 PM »

Lets hope if found guilty, the judge bursts out in song with "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time".

dago

Wlfgng · « **Reply #11 on:** April 19, 2002, 05:20:10 PM »

That'd suck HB... if I had to hear/see the TV on all day I'd go nuts.
specially CNN

Fatty · « **Reply #12 on:** April 19, 2002, 05:42:23 PM »

All the news broadcasts were broken into last night, for his car ride to the police station(?).

It was almost as bad as when the stupid 30 mph OJ car chase interrupted the NBA finals.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #13 on:** April 19, 2002, 05:48:34 PM »

ambulance chasers...

no...

story chasers.. pathetic

midnight Target · « **Reply #14 on:** April 19, 2002, 05:53:32 PM »

Don't know about the rest of the country , but do you get the "live car chase" coverage as regularly as we do? Amazing how fast the local networks get on that stuff. Then people who live nearby go running out to get on TV.

Don't these idiots who run in a car know they NEVER get away? One guy broke down on the Freeway, then got out and started pushing his car! Now that was funny!