Saturday, July 14, 2007
News on tv
Aside from the fact that I hate the plastic, pre-chewed news reports on many networks (including and especially CNN's smoooooooth news readers), there's another reason I like Fox's morning show (Fox and Friends, especially the early one). I don't know if the on-air people assemble the news items themselves, but they're aware of what they're talking about. They have actual conversations with each other about what they're covering - sometimes making unexpectedly interesting and clearly unscripted remarks. And they cover good news (yes, there is some good news in this crazy world) like schools reopening in Afghanistan and Iraq, that huge tip paid by a generous customer to a Pizza Hut waitress, Chris Gardner, and so on. Its anchors aren't the most intellectual people on earth, although some are, but they're smart, lively and very verbal (with the exception of the very blond blonde who's been relegated to promo detail). If anyone with BDS** chances by, I'm sure the lack of alarm and doom-and-gloom is distressing, but I love it and am appreciative.
Labels: fun, good ideas, tv
Reading reverberations around the globe, in particular, one of my LJ-buddies picking up Lenta.ru interpretation (where "orchard" got substituted with "orchid", Iraq with Iran, Sadam Hussein is praised for drying up swamps north of Basra).
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