More vulgarity from Oprah

I can't believe the show I've just seen on Oprah... or perhaps I should, as this woman seems capable of just about any sort of self-promoting, flamboyant, vulgar displays of decadence that you can imagine.

Of course, her 'out' to avoid this type of critique is, she didn't do anything, it was all the show's sponsors (read Walmart and Caesar's Palace). Bull shit!

Should we believe that the Oprah show doesn't get anything out of this? Are they doing it out of some altruistic and pure motivation to better people's lives? Garbage... she is self-promoting and vulgar, and the American audiences are stupid enough to believe that her demonstrations of generosity are based on benevolence.

It's disgusting, but no surprise, that networks fight each other to cram this rubbish onto their prime time channels.

Use your money to solve poverty; persuade Walmart to provide homeless shelters in the cities where they have stores; make Caesar's Palace offer free rooms and meals to the unemployed in Las Vegas... that's true benevolence. Oprah, you have so much manipulative power over the idiots in the US (corporate and civilian) that they would willingly bow to anything that comes from your mouth.

Oprah... want to be one of the most powerful women in the world for a good and just reason? Cut out the corporate crap and do more to make people's lives better. Make the US a better place to live for everyone, not just the chosen sextuplets that look good on TV!

Truth in advertising

This link will take you to the Canadian advertising standards website. Here, they'll have you believe that Truth in advertising matters.

So... in that case, the commercial that ran over the holiday season encouraging you to buy Dad a burger must have been true in its premise that Dad is not only an afterthought, but also only worth a burger's value to his family.

As a Dad, I take absolute umbrage with that claim. I am not an afterthought, either in my own mind or that of my family's! I refuse to let some jerk advertising company make me feel like a loser who is only worth a burger to his loved ones.

How dare you!! If that's what you truly think of me, then shove your burger, profits, and any hopes of seeing me in your stores where the sun doesn't shine. Hopefully your saturated fat-filled ground pork will clear your colons and save the medical industry a bundle in taking care of helping you move your bowels through a colon that has a head blocking it!!

Dumb and Dumber - southern fried wut?

Have you ever seen 'b' TV so fake?

Seriously, what the hell is the FBI doing? So far in this 'reality' show, they've taken down a major identity theft ring; destroyed a drug-smuggling ring run out of a funeral home; and let's not forget all the run-of-the-mill P.I. stuff they manage to squeeze in to an otherwise busy life. Oh yes, and all of this while dragging a full field camera unit (at least one) with them!

The FBI, CIA, CSIS, MI5 and all the other Interpol members should be contacting these guys for tips and help!

This is not reality but Freakality TV at its best. The fake perpetrators, the over-acting victims... give me a break. Even the existing Wikipedia on the show - although incomplete - talks about the show being scripted.

This is just a lame attempt at Gollywood by an out of work, overweight and obviously overly-self-confident ex-State Trooper trying to subsidise his pension, while holding total contempt for the intelligence of the audience. Go play cops and robbers with someone else's money Jay...

12' security guards that get taken down by an overweight munchkin! The yard boss who is so shocked! The female being stalked by her neighbor's husband! A computer store owner who is a high rolling identity theft boss! Guys throwing out Hazardous Waste without hazmat suits (oh, and Jay and the gang take 'em down, also without any protection!!) OMG!

Seriously!!

Why a Soap Box for TV?

Just to clear up a few things... My expertise in critiquing TV, in all its glory, comes from more than 40 years of experience. Developed from the days of beautiful black and white TV shows, to the now over-commercialised, over-sensationalised, rubbish that appears on the box today, my skills have been honed through strategic study and observation of TV and its development.

I have had the privilege of observing the development of the media on two continents, covering 5 countries... and that's a lot of coverage. I have also watched TV from the days of analogue OTA to Cable to Satellite, all seen as improvements over the other. We'll see.

I am also a sociologist, and take a great deal of pleasure in watching how we (the people) react to what we are fed... in the papers, on the radio, and via TV and Film.

What don't I have? I don't have a tolerance for the garbage that is being fed through this media in a way that is supposed to present it as factual, instructional, evidential, or real. I will attack whatever irks me, and you may read it or not. You may agree or not. What I hope you will do is, if you have an opinion, express it here. That's what the blog is for.

Stay tuned...