It continues to amaze me how shallow some people are.

I read about the tragedy. It seems no place is safe from crazy people. Utah is one of the last states you expect to hear stuff like that.

Salt Lake seems to have a history of it - something like this seems to happen every two or three years.

But the shallowness of these people boggles the mind. I'm listening to the radio morning show right now, and many of those complainers are calling the hosts right now, trying to justify their behavior. It's even worse hearing it from their very mouths.

I mean, come on, I lost twenty minutes of Gilmore Girls. But do you hear me bitching?

Oh yeah, Happy Vamlumtimes Day everyone.

It was a hideous tragedy. I don't agree that it should shut down other programmes though. Most of the newsreel is repeat stuff.

This wasn't repeat. Hell, they guy was STILL ALIVE AND SHOOTING and these frakkers wanted to watch Jack Bauer blow people up instead.

It was a hideous tragedy. I don't agree that it should shut down other programmes though.

Yeah, uh, that is just idiotic. Don't interrupt vacuous entertainment to let people know about real-time, ongoing tragedy. Just keep them in the dark. They can find out at 11 (or 10 in the Mountain time zone). Man. That is just one of the most stupid things I have read in a while. Strong work adnauseam. You win my "Tool of the day" award.

You win my "Tool of the day" award.

Definitely. That's what I like to call insipid.

I guess what makes me mad about it is that they dwell on it when they have nothing to say about it. It's like the joke thing you see on SNL sometimes where they keep breaking in with more and more lurid lead-in graphics... but then say the same thing and say they'll have more later.

I don't mind as long as it is important, but I think most of the time they do it just to seem like they are on top of things. It's like news people are clamoring for the next big bloodbath and when something COULD be one they have to sit there with their straws and slurp it up without wasting a dramatic drop.

It's cool if they want to do that on a news channel, but if they have nothing to add that they didn't know 5 minutes before, they need to shut the hell up, imho. They're just vultures at that point.

Count me as an "asshat."

In a 24 hour news cycle, "Breaking News" is a dinosaur. Unless there's a nuke headed my way or terrorists are taking down pieces of America this very second anythng more than a 10-second "news at eleven" is unnecessary and unwelcome. When I want the news I have it at my finger tips. If I want Jack Bauer, I want Jack Bauer. Frankly, these days, shows are a commodity. If I don't get it from them, I can surely get it elsewhere, even if I have to bootleg it off P2P. Stations that don't wake up to these new realities will soon find themselves the dinosaurs.



(Ironically, I've been considering writing an article on this topic -- from the "asshat" perspective. I just wrote a Vegas station and told them more or less what I wrote above. If they want to keep interrupting the shows, I have other options, including at least two separate feeds for each of the top four networks. The news departments need leashed. Stations can't afford this garbage any longer.)



(And for the record, I don't want Jack Bauer -- I've never seen a single episode of 24.)

True. But I always thought the safest place in the Universe would be A Luby's cafeteria in the middle of Texas.

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I don't know, I can see why people wouldn't want their program interrupted by "breaking news" that doesn't directly affect them, but many others would want to know right away. Two sides of a coin.

True. But I always thought the safest place in the Universe would be A Luby's cafeteria in the middle of Texas.

I guess we have to accept the fact (as does the rest of the world) that psychos are everywhere.  Sad.

That's true. You never know where I, errr I mean they, might show up.

I can see the annoyance. Like I said, I missed the first twenty minutes of one of my favorite shows for a press conference. Annoyed? That makes sense. But to call the station and complain . . . that's going to far.

Besides, both shows have a promised "rebroadcast" later in the week. If you can't watch the rebroadcast, record or TiVo it, by all ever-loving means.

For the petty people, perhaps Cable is the answer? I am sorry for the loss. We did not get enough of it, as (shame to say), it is all too common these days.