A militant INDEPENDENT democratic socialist's attempt to expose the truth of our culture – in all its rich irony and absurdity.
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Saturday, April 12, 2003
Awful commercials mar Channel 10 NEWS
Watching TV for more than 10 hours a week can be hazardous
to your health, regular viewers were warned last week. But I suspect
that the boob tube rots your mind even faster than it ruins your
body by insidiously transforming you into a couch potato.
Most sensitive and intelligent people must find those
relentless TV commercials even more tasteless than the regular
programming. Channel 10 NEWS - I think - wins the prize for overwhelming
its paltry, senselessly repetitive " news " with truly sub-idiotic
commercials. If this advertising really pays off for the sponsors,
what does that say about the general caliber of the TV audience ?
MUST capitalist " democracy " be also a tyranny of
vulgarity ? What type of " artist " makes those commercials ?
I can't imagine this type of commercial prostitute being familiar
with great art, music , and literature . If they have encountered
TRUTH & BEAUTY somewhere in life - how can they not hate themselves ?
What a challenge for those TV news celebrities to always
be CUTE -even when presenting the blackest news. SMILING FACES -
LYING FACES !
A coffee cup salute to the first one who vomits on
camera. And not from mere indigestion !
Is QUALITY NEWS just asking for too much ? How I
miss old Walter Cronkite !
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