Comments on: The Airing of Grievances: TeeVee

By: The View From North Central Idaho - Maybe he needs a cigarette

The View From North Central Idaho - Maybe he needs a cigarette — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:58:05 +0000

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By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:25:28 +0000

I gave up on TeeVee years ago. It’s all a bunch of misandrist crap anyway. Why pay to have folks remind me that as a white man I’m personally responsible for all historical evils and I’m an incompetent boob to boot?

Lots more time now to play with guns, Al Gore’s Intertubes, and screw women of low moral character.

By: EllieK

EllieK — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:26:41 +0000

Consider:
Firefly – cancelled before the end of its first season.
My Name is Earl – just signed for its third season.

Does this say more about the decision making at television studios? Or the general public?

Either way, I have given up on television as a quality entertainment medium.

By: Billy Beck

Billy Beck — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:39:45 +0000

It always amuses me to watch, say, a report in which essential parts of the visual action are occluded under some dipshit graphic banner. I sit drumming my fingertips on the desk, counting seconds into whole minutes, sometimes, and thinking, “Okay; I can see what’s going on here. How come the Technical director can’t see it and call the shot?”

In thirty years as a rock tour stage lighting director, I’ve had many occasions to work with these people. Their attitudes are simply outrageous in the context of their astounding myopia. They are the ultimate propeller beanie-headed geeks.

Television production is one of the lamest sub-cultures I ever saw in my life. Really; they’re nearly as bad as congress, except that they can’t prevail upon us with force.