Now, after I've praised that sci-fi show on the Evil Eye Network, it's disappeared--without a trace, to coin a phrase--or, as my family likes to call a certain program, without a cold case.
Meanwhile my latest complaint about the Crime Scene Investigators is that the stories too often center on rare medical conditions.
Monday, January 02, 2006
New Year already, and I haven't contributed to my own distinguished blog since November!
First a necessary quote from my journal, documenting the purchase I was threatening to make and, in fact, did last month:
OK, here's my next (unrelated) subject. Within the past few days I happened to tune in to National Pub(l)ic Radio, which I seldom hear except for news breaks on Minnesota Public Radio's classical music service. At this point several radio types/guests, whose names I didn't catch, were discussing journalism. One pompous elitist lamented how easy the Internet has made it for the ignorant masses, the uneducated, uninitiated hoi polloi, to weigh in on matters that should obviously be left to their betters in the journalistic class. Those accursed blogs! They encourage mere laypeople to spout off on any subject without the learned wizards of The Craft to interpose their filters between suspect scribes and The Public, who need to be protected from unapproved info.
Maybe I should have listened longer instead of tuning away in disgust. But there you have it: a stereotypical bad attitude from the Main["Lame"]stream Media. Can't be bothered with true freedom of expression, no Precious! I haven't even raised the part about their being unable to see their tilted forest for the tilted trees that they are; since they all lean in more or less the same direction, their slanted view appears, to them, correct.
That "sophisticated professional" ought to debate this blog's owners.
First a necessary quote from my journal, documenting the purchase I was threatening to make and, in fact, did last month:
The weapon in question is a European American Armory/Tanfoglio “Witness” polymer .45 model, which cost me a total of $343.
OK, here's my next (unrelated) subject. Within the past few days I happened to tune in to National Pub(l)ic Radio, which I seldom hear except for news breaks on Minnesota Public Radio's classical music service. At this point several radio types/guests, whose names I didn't catch, were discussing journalism. One pompous elitist lamented how easy the Internet has made it for the ignorant masses, the uneducated, uninitiated hoi polloi, to weigh in on matters that should obviously be left to their betters in the journalistic class. Those accursed blogs! They encourage mere laypeople to spout off on any subject without the learned wizards of The Craft to interpose their filters between suspect scribes and The Public, who need to be protected from unapproved info.
Maybe I should have listened longer instead of tuning away in disgust. But there you have it: a stereotypical bad attitude from the Main["Lame"]stream Media. Can't be bothered with true freedom of expression, no Precious! I haven't even raised the part about their being unable to see their tilted forest for the tilted trees that they are; since they all lean in more or less the same direction, their slanted view appears, to them, correct.
That "sophisticated professional" ought to debate this blog's owners.
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