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- "Talk Back to Your TV", Part 1
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-
- These are letters taken from the "Talk Back to Your TV" column from the
- TV Dial (distributed with the Sunday Rocky Mountain News). I've never
- seen a bigger group of whiny idiots anywhere else, but what can you expect
- from couch potatoes? Judge for yourself:
-
- ***
- "Networks bomb on history test"
-
- Editor: I don't know if I will ever watch ABC, NBC, or CBS national news
- again. At every turn, we see the world news trying to remake U.S. history and
- it's getting to be nauseating. War is tragic, but reporting was severly
- one-sided on the atomic bombing of Japan -- diminishing the supreme
- sacrifice of American lives in World War II! It seems there was a lapse of
- memory. Japan *started* the war with the U.S. by bombing Pearl Harbor!
- The atomic bomb *ended* the war, but it didn't happen soon enough to
- bring my brother home. If Japan had the atomic bomb first, just what kind
- of mercy would they have shown the USA?
- Lorretta M. Carder [warez!@$#]
- Denver
- [trading thousands of civilian lives for the bombing of one military base
- was certainly worth it, wasn't it, Lorretta?]
-
- ***
- "Believe it! 'Christy' is history" [I'm beginning to see a trend here]
-
- Editor: I can't believe it; how rude! _Christy_ is canceled? That is
- absolutely the best show I have ever seen! There just aren't those kind of
- television shows out there anymore. In a world of _NYPD Blue_, _Roseanne_,
- and all that other trash, can't we have *something* good?
- A. Johnson
- Loveland
- [Take a Valium, dude. Since I've never heard of _Christy_ before, I can
- only assume it wasn't exactly popular.]
-
- ***
- "Good news for fans of 'Sliders'"
-
- Editor: I just love the show _Sliders_. Please tell me if it will be
- back on this fall.
- Also, I have to agree with Ken Bates of Denver. There is no doubt that
- _The Riki Lake Show_ is the worst talk show on TV [no, that would be
- _Carnie_. Ugh.]. She is too sarcastic toward her panel members and she does
- have the personality of a rock. Personally, I think [who gives a shit what
- you think, J. Novak of Denver? Next!]
-
- ***
- "Mad about 'Earth 2'? Write NBC"
-
- Editor: For the first time in years, I found a TV show worth watching.
- In fact, I scheduled my Sundays around it [and you admit it? Get a life,
- pal]. I am referring to NBC's _Earth 2_. I am but one of many who are angry
- at NBC's decision to cancel it. Would you please print information where
- [sic] I should write to express my anger? [you should post on alt.whine for
- the best results] One letter probably won't make much difference but then,
- who knows? They might get more than one letter.
- Jeff Bailey
- Denver
- [They might get two.]
-
- ***
- "Shame on '7' [sic -- why the fuck is this in quotes?] for dropping show"
-
- Editor: I am writing to express my anger toward KMGH-Channel 7 for
- replacing _The Price is Right_ with _American Journal_. Who needs more sex,
- cheating and lying with another soap opera and more celebrity gossip? [I
- do] You can find that on all the other channels? [sic]
- _The Price is Right_ was the last daytime game show on television. The
- show showed people having a good time. [You don't think people having sex
- are "having a good time"?] [...]
- M.K. Griego
- Arvada
-
- ***
- "'Trek' move means adios to Channel 2"
-
- Editor: Yes, it's another letter from a _Star Trek_ fan. While I
- really enjoy Channel 2-KWGN's coverage of the Rockies games, I am really
- [really?] disappointed with the moving [sic] of _Star Trek: The Next
- Generation_ 10:30 [sic] to make room for _Roseanne_. Besides the fact that
- Roseanne is boring, rude, and unfunny, it was very pleasant to see _ST:TNG_
- after watching the 9 p.m. [sic] news program. Now, I will no longer be
- watching the 9 p.m. [sic] news, _Roseanne_, or _ST:TNG_, as well as most
- shows on KWGN. My TV will be set to Channel 4.
- Tom Francois
- Littleton
- [avoid the grapes . . . they're a bit sour.]
-
- ***
- "Sportscasters strike out"
-
- Editor: Is it just me, [probably] or are there others out there who
- are fed up with television sportscasters babbling about everything except
- what's going on right under their noses on the field?
- I am referring [blah, blah, blah -- if you really want to read all
- five paragraphs of this moron's whining then send me mail and I'll scan it
- for you] [...] Not once during Grace's at-bat was any mention made of what
- was happening on the field. [...]
- Tom Rochford
- Aurora
- [say, if you can see what's happening on the field then why do you need
- sportscasters to tell you about it? You long-winded fuckwit.]
-
- ***
- "Bad TV brings back reading and radio"
-
- Editor: I thought this would be the best way to "thank" all the TV
- stations at once. With nothing to watch but talk shows and soaps all day, I
- am so sick of TV that mine is turned off most of the day [sic -- I think
- you forgot a sentence or two in there, lady]. I used to watch the talk
- shows (because there was nothing else on) [my favorite excuse from
- couch-potatoes who can't do something constructive with their time] but
- even those are getting old. It's like watching the same thing over and over
- again but with different people [BINGO! How long did it take you to figure
- that out?]. [...]
- S. Lawrence
- Denver
-
- ***
- "Why did 2 give Limbaugh bum's rush?"
-
- Editor: [...] Such decisions turn off viewers and viewers can likewise
- tune out [hint: use "turn off" again to drive home your point and be a more
- effective writer] Channel 2 with a mere flip of the dial.
- Lorretta M. Carder [warez!#@$]
- Denver
- [Hey, it's our good buddy Ms. Carder! Get a life, lady.]
-
- ***
- "Recent cancellations ring of censorship"
-
- Editor: Welcome to Russia, folks! A couple shows with conservative
- viewpoints were silenced in our viewing area [good fucking riddance]. The
- first was the _CBS Reports_ documentary, _Faith & Politics: The Christian
- Right_, which KMGH-Channel 7 chose to preempt. We and many others
- [actually, just you and Ms. Carder] feel the country has lost its moral
- compass and that is what the show was about.
- Only two days later, we read that KWGN-Channel 2 dropped Rush
- Limbaugh's weeknight show. Aren't we lucky, we get to see Geraldo Rivera's
- noon talk show rerun in that time slot? We and many others stayed up to
- watch Rush, or recorded it daily [fucking sheep].
- Watch out folks, election time nears and the liberal media has to
- silence conservative viewpoints. This is beginning to sound like censorship
- with a capital "C."
- Jack and Millie Hazlip
- Sterling
- [no, this is beginning to sound like capitalism with a capital "get a clue,
- stupid." If you don't like it, move to Russia . . . oh, that's your line,
- isn't it?]
-
- ***
- "What media is 'liberal,' conservative?' [sic]"
-
- Editor: The old saying, "Go to the mouth of the horse," hence my
- letter to you as a member of the media [SIC -- don't drink and write]. I am
- really fed up with the media being referred to as "liberal" if an article
- differs with [sic] the opinion of politicians and talk conservatives. Would
- you kindly tell me which newspapers -- _New York Times_, _Rocky Mountain
- News_, etc., especially _Time_ magazine -- are actually liberal or
- conservative? [...]
- Agnes Coleman [say "hi" to Garry]
- Longmont
- ***
- "Fed [hide your warez!] up with the new TV season"
-
- Editor: This new TV season is 110% disgusting [so for every 10 shows
- that disgust you, you're disgusted by an extra one that doesn't even air?
- K3wl]. [...]
- S. Redd
- Aurora
-
- ***
- "Money, not quality, drives TV"
-
- Editor: I'm sick of all the people complaining about TV networks
- canceling "good shows" and putting on so-called "trash." If a show doesn't
- sell, it goes. Simple as that. When only a few people watch a program, the
- networks aren't making money [sic]. TV shows are costly to produce and if a
- company doesn't want to pay to advertise during a times lot [sic], they
- won't. TV networks then lose money, which they can't afford to do. Networks
- are just trying to make a larger profit when the [sic] replace shows.
- Corynn Cox
- Denver
- [aside from the numerous errors -- heck, even *with* them -- this is the
- most intelligent letter I've ever seen in "Talk Back to Your TV."]
-
- ***
- "Replace talk TV with classics"
-
- Editor: I was wondering if anyone else feels the way I do ["Does
- anybody here remember Vera Lynn? / Remember how she said that / We would
- meet again / Some sunny day?" But I digress...]. [...] Put something on
- that is good and entertaining and take off all these talk shows!
- Ruth DeJong
- Denver
-
- [Check the letter above yours. *Somebody* must be watching talk shows.
- Probably the lazy sheep who complain that "there's nothing else on" and
- watch the talk shows because they need their TV fix.]
- ***
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