link CNN’s Piers Morgan Vows Format And Other Changes To Beat Fox News Competition: Promises “I’m Going To Be There To Win” And “It’s Time To Kick Some Ratings Butt” – Deadline.com.
A big As if on this story. It’s possible that skewed entertainment may find an audience somewhere, but unless there’s hard objective news, our hero Piers Morgan will be voted off after season one. Actually, it’s an ongoing curiosity that the competing channels to Fox News offer the kind of programming that they do. The U.S. is a conservative nation, yet the public networks are populated with liberal mouthpieces, some of whom are borderline insane. Anyone with a rational bone in their body can see that a guy like Keith Olbermann is just an outburst away from a fitting with the long armed jacket.
It’s a miracle that Larry King still managed to hold onto his show for as long as he did. I can only suspect that the fossils who cared to watch him had actually died and left their TV’s on during his show, leading the Nielson people to mistakenly count them as actual live viewers.
The record so far for CNN is not good. Over the past year, they’ve offered shows that were intellectually dishonest, like the recently axed Rick Sanchez and the equally flaccid Christiane Amanpour, to the intellectually vapid, like the Joy Behar show. This is what they consider to be tapping into America’s interests and sensibilities. Americans are quite different from Europeans and even from Canadians. They do not like to be told what to think. Virtually every network and cable outlet except for Fox has been pushing the same tired propoganda over the past few years. Obama is a genius, Palin is dumb. Democrats are sympathetic, Republicans are wing nuts. People can pretty much figure it out for themselves and if they determine that the truth is quite the contrary, all credibility is gone.
Consider this. Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, two of Fox’s star opinion purveyors actually have a tour in which they go around the country…just talking. These are two pudgy, grumpy middle aged guys. And the shows sell out. The message they convey is so compelling that people would pay to see them. I cannot imagine any personality from any of the other networks who have that kind of drawing power. There’s an epiphany here for the CNN’s, the CBS’s, the NBC”s and the ABC’s of America, people want to hear honest, positive things, not “progressive” agendas. At the moment, Fox is the only source for objective news. The rest may as well be part of The Colbert Report.
link EXCLUSIVE: Porn Star Shopping Alleged Tiger Woods Sex Tape To XXX Company Vivid — Top Level Talks Today | Radar Online.
This story underscores people’s natural inclination towards capitalism and entrepreneurship. Our poor gal, Devon James, not seemingly endowed with anything other than an inability to say no, decides to try her hand at business. Technically, she had always been self employed, but the tryst with Tiger presented an opportunity to make revenue in bunches rather than the way she would normally do it: piece by piece as it were.
She now claims that there is a video tape of Tiger and herself in, how shall we say, flagrante delicto. After performing an intricate series of calculations involving present value, interest rates, exchange fluctuations and moon phases, she concludes that the value of this tape is worth at least $350,000. Nobody should snicker at this because the calculations for all collectible art are made in more or less the same way. Apparently, porn distributor Vivid Entertainment would be interested at this price level. Or perhaps even Tiger himself for posterity. He can file it under PRO-AMS, where in this case, he would be the amateur.
The factor of potential embarrassment to Tiger may be one of the factors in determining the $350,000 price tag for the cinematic treasure and that’s a fair bit of change, certainly more than any movie Michael Moore will make again. This of course begs the question, why would Tiger be embarrassed? This whole episode has already cost him his marriage plus a few hundred million dollars plus perhaps a place in history. So what would embarrass him? That he had carnal relations with a woman? Hardly embarrassing. The world didn’t think he dated these women to talk swing changes. Would he be embarrassed about perhaps physical shortcomings? Unlikely. Tiger is not known to leave his putts short. I think perhaps the only thing that could be seen as possibly embarrassing is if he insisted the gals put on Phil Mickelson masks. In that case, $350,000 may be cheap.
But you can’t blame a gal for trying. With her loose lips and resultant declining client list, another major may be hard to get in her lifetime. Tsk tsk to poor Tiger. He shouldn’t have been playing out of bounds.