glenn beck
Posted: August 20th, 2006, 7:57 pm
hey gang,
i work on cruise ships, so i don't have access to 150 channels on my tv. it doesn't really matter to me, because i've actually never been interested in television; even when i'm in a situation with a million channel options, i rarely turn it on to anything except nerd stuff, like discovery channel and various news stuff.
which brings me to my point: on my most recent ships, which are in the royal caribbean fleet, we have most of the turner network - cnn, cnn headline news, tnt, cartoon network, and turner classics.
my office is in my room on the ship, so in the past few years i've taken to leaving cnn or cnn headline news on in the background when i'm doing paperwork or whatever. over the past few years, cnn headline news has dramatically changed their programming and replaced all of their prime time spots with completely valueless tripe, like nancy grace, showbiz tonight, and to my recent horror, glenn beck.
in the past, i usually felt like despite being a major network, owned by some corporate agenda, cnn would show most sides a story. admittedly, i realized that they leaned a little to the left.
now it's like the whole cnn headline news channel is on a supercharged republican agenda! this glenn beck idiot is the worst kind of fool: he combines smarmy arrogance with astronomical ignorance about the world around him! it's like he can't make a rational or researched opinion - everything he spews seems to be based in borrowed opinions from the right wing philosophy!
anyway, i smell even more controversy than usual with a news network. i mean, i have no delusions about the networks being on political agendas, but from my watching cnn headline news in the past year, it's on some kind of stupidity mission. between glenn and nancy, they're faking being a "news" channel, but actually validating brash stupidity in the american public. it's like it's on purpose or something.
anyway i'm done i guess. i could sure go on - if you've ever subjected yourself to an episode or two of glenn beck, we could sit all night and list his maniacal shitbombs of idiocy.
am i alone? or can anyone show me a different view? take away my disdain and frustration for turner???
ciao,
g
i work on cruise ships, so i don't have access to 150 channels on my tv. it doesn't really matter to me, because i've actually never been interested in television; even when i'm in a situation with a million channel options, i rarely turn it on to anything except nerd stuff, like discovery channel and various news stuff.
which brings me to my point: on my most recent ships, which are in the royal caribbean fleet, we have most of the turner network - cnn, cnn headline news, tnt, cartoon network, and turner classics.
my office is in my room on the ship, so in the past few years i've taken to leaving cnn or cnn headline news on in the background when i'm doing paperwork or whatever. over the past few years, cnn headline news has dramatically changed their programming and replaced all of their prime time spots with completely valueless tripe, like nancy grace, showbiz tonight, and to my recent horror, glenn beck.
in the past, i usually felt like despite being a major network, owned by some corporate agenda, cnn would show most sides a story. admittedly, i realized that they leaned a little to the left.
now it's like the whole cnn headline news channel is on a supercharged republican agenda! this glenn beck idiot is the worst kind of fool: he combines smarmy arrogance with astronomical ignorance about the world around him! it's like he can't make a rational or researched opinion - everything he spews seems to be based in borrowed opinions from the right wing philosophy!
anyway, i smell even more controversy than usual with a news network. i mean, i have no delusions about the networks being on political agendas, but from my watching cnn headline news in the past year, it's on some kind of stupidity mission. between glenn and nancy, they're faking being a "news" channel, but actually validating brash stupidity in the american public. it's like it's on purpose or something.
anyway i'm done i guess. i could sure go on - if you've ever subjected yourself to an episode or two of glenn beck, we could sit all night and list his maniacal shitbombs of idiocy.
am i alone? or can anyone show me a different view? take away my disdain and frustration for turner???
ciao,
g