{"id":1508,"date":"2007-05-14T21:50:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T00:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2007-10-06T09:39:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T12:39:12","slug":"the-tele-and-then-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"The Tele and then that"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> read that CBS’s Evening News is falling behind in rates<\/a> (originally via Alan<\/a>). Some media reports blame this on America’s first (female) anchor, Kate Couric<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

And a recent Gallup poll reinforced the notion that Ms. Couric had become a polarizing figure: 29 percent of respondents said that they did not like her, as opposed to 51 percent who said that they liked her.\n<\/p>\n

I’m not sure about the polarizing part, but just this last weekend I saw an episode of Larry King with Katie and was utterly surprised that this time Couric<\/em> was actually interviewing Larry King on his own show instead of the other way around. How low can you go? And what is that with those softball questions?\n<\/p>\n

I have been ignoring TV recently and that’s not because of Couric: what’s on TV is nowadays not all too interesting because it appears that most commercial broadcasters seem to play on ‘safe edu and entertainment’. You know, ‘safe programming’<\/em>. Maybe it’s just my imagination, but it seems that only public stations are willing to broadcast the controversial stuff, or rather, in-depth (and generally, independent) reports. Take for example PBS’ ‘America at a crossroad’<\/a>, the BBC’s Scientology report<\/a> (Panorama) and their landmark Planet Earth series<\/a>. And we can all laugh about the silly Eurovision Song festival, but, if you think of it, American Idol: that’s a classic example of brainless entertainment. Brainless entertainment is fun, but if everything else on the TV is of the same quality, what do you do?\n<\/p>\n

That said, I think I mentioned before that I frequently check out ‘Smashing Telly’s list of online videos<\/a> (great set of interesting documentaries). Earlier this weekend, I decided to give up on YouTube and move on to ‘DailyMotion’<\/a>. I assume that since this site is set up by a French company, it has less reasons to fear for the wrath of the media corporations..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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