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This used to be the TV station which starred Mel Mains weather and Kalamity Kate. My punk band even appeared in the early 1980’s on the «Kidding Around» show, and after our taping session at the Vine St studios (which freaked the bejesus out of them yet nonetheless aired in an edited fashion) we were followed by a more kiddie-​appropriate Girl Scout troup who did an a cappella version of the ’50’s song «Charlie Brown.»
My childhood would not have been complete without Morty Mouse on Sunday mornings and the claymation «Davey and Goliath» created by the same dude who did «Gumby».
So I recently watched the news program one 6 O’Clock, the same time T.S. Eliot says you should be cooking your steaks in the hallway (damn I digress, friggin liberal arts education). All was well and not so good in Lincoln-​land, maybe someone stole cigarettes from a convenience store, usual boring news. Maybe they reported on the guy who was stealing bicycles downtown and got picked up. Usual news BS. But what really got to me, what really annoyed me, is that they spent about ½ a minute of a 22 minute broadcast announcing the fact that «someone» who was a nitwit «responded» on their «blog» to a question about some local hullabaloo. BFD. Anyone sitting at a computer right now knows online newspapers let the hoi polloi comment on articles run in the paper, about ¾ of which are usually off-​topic rantings by nitwits. Fine, it’s first amendment, I do really like knowing how many knuckleheads are prowling the streets of my neighborhood, and by the usual web comment threads there are a lot of them. But to make such things a part of your newscast? Hey Newsflash!!! We Got An E-​MAIL regarding our «controversial» story!!!
This is not news. Most TV stations stopped doing this kind of gimmickrey a while back. Once again, the nitwit opinion of Irma the shut-​in with access to a hotmail account *is not news*. Fill your 22 minutes with something of substance.