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Saturday, April 10, 2021
Three Intelligent Programs TV Needs to Bring Back
Herewith, 3 intelligent, entertaining programs TV studios should bring back, for our entertainment and their revenue. First up, an intelligent late night talk show. Please.
Next up, a great song and dance program with great characters, writing and character development. Wouldn't that be nice? It also had a rather huge benefit and attraction of being really inclusive with
And finally, they should bring back "Smash" or a version of it. Rather an adult form of "Glee" but again, with great characters, writing and character development. This adds the setting of New York City. Fantastic.
By redoing these shows or doing versions of them, they'd be successful, very successful and gain viewers and so, revenue and we'd all have good things to watch again. Instead of "reality" shows. Ugh.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
On Republican Party Racism
Did you see this on CBS' "60 Minutes"?
Be sure to vote.
And vote blue.
#BlueWave2020
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Rest In Peace, Mr. Conway
And thank you so very much for so very much fantastic, one of a kind humor.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
March For Our Lives Kansas City Big Success and the Media Coverage It Created
The March For Our Lives event here in Kansas City was a big, big success yesterday. It was exciting and gratifying and really wonderful how many came out and the success of it all.
The Star has a fantastic, brief video of the March For Our Lives Kansas City rally/march that took place yesterday on their site.
March for Our Lives protest in KC
draws thousands
They gave the event some quite good coverage, thankfully. Here's more.
Slain Brookside attorney's widow speaks
at March for Our Lives
Local TV media also gave great coverage.
Not just the Kansas City march alone, either.
Good to great regional and national coverage, too.
There's lots more from the event, pictures, etc., here, too.
It was a terrific day and event.
Now, we go forward.
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Kansas City's Secret Santa Gets Great Exposure Today
Kansas City's Secret Santa got some fantastic national coverage this morning. He was on KCTV-5 and CBS Sunday Morning just a bit ago. You can find the video here, below.
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Great Kansas City News Coverage
Purely to make sure more Kansas Citians saw this coverage of our city, Kansas City, and Jackson County on our well-known "Secret Santa" from the CBS Evening News. It is from last year, 2014, but I thought it bears repeating.
Happy holidays, y'all.
Monday, October 5, 2015
The NRA and Gun Lovers, In a Nutshell
Face it, Archie had the NRA's and gun lover's position down pat when he spewed these gems.
True then, all those years ago. Certainly still true today. They haven't budged a bit. Nothing's changed in any way.
"MORE GUNS!"
Thursday, July 16, 2015
How Long, America? How Long?
Yet one more case of what a huge proliferation of weapons in our nation gets us:
Yet one more instance of innocent Americans being gunned down.
So that's the question, America.
How long?
How long do we keep tolerating these shootings and killings?
How long until we merely require all weapons purchases undergo background checks for metal stability and criminal background?
No, it won't end all these incidents, no, certainly not. But if it reduces them even some and reduces even SOME shootings and killings, isn't that good? Isn't that a good thing? Isn't that an improvement?
Of course it is.
How long, America?
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
KC Royals Shine In AL Win at All Star Game
The headlines began pouring out this evening:
First from CBS Sports:
Lorenzo Cain shines during Royal takeover in All-Star Game
From the Star
Fan Sided Blog:
I can just hear Tony and the naysayers now.
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Pressure Building for the Nation's Infrastructure--and Maybe for the People
It does seem as if finally,finally pressure may be building in our media for some kind of infrastructure bill from this Congress.
And let's face it, the only way this is going to happen is if the people are for it and if it's reflected in our media.
Here's the first indicator. I saw it yesterday:
More proof we're in rapid decline: Not a single U.S. city currently ranks among the world's most livable
America has the most billionaires in the world, but not a single U.S. city ranks among the world’s most livable cities. Not a single U.S. airport is among the top 100 airports in the world. Our bridges, road and rail are falling apart, and our middle class is being guttered out thanks to three decades of stagnant wages, while the top 1 percent enjoys 95 percent of all economic gains.
A rigged tax code and a bloated military budget are starving the federal and state governments of the revenue it needs to invest in infrastructure, which means today America looks increasingly like a second rate nation, and now new data shows America’s intellectual resources are also in decline.
For the past three decades, the Republican Party has waged a dangerous assault on the very idea of public education. Tax cuts for the rich have been balanced with spending cuts to education. During the New Deal era of the 1940s to 1970s, public schools were the great leveler of America. They were our great achievement. It was universal education for all, but today it’s education for those fortunate enough to be born into wealthy families or live in wealthy school districts. The right’s strategy of defunding public education leaves parents with the option of sending their kids to a for-profit school or a theological school that teaches kids our ancestors kept dinosaurs as pets.
“What kind of future society the defectors from the public school rolls envision I cannot say. However, having spent some time in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a war-torn hellhole with one of those much coveted limited central governments, and, not coincidentally, a country in which fewer than half the school-age population goes to public school—I can say with certainty that I don’t want to live there,” writes Chuck Thompson in Better off Without Em.
Then, this Sunday evening, CBS News' "60 Minutes" is doing a segment, thank goodness, on America's crumbling infrastructure. However long overdue, at least they're finally doing it now:
Then, this Sunday evening, CBS News' "60 Minutes" is doing a segment, thank goodness, on America's crumbling infrastructure. However long overdue, at least they're finally doing it now:
Is the United States falling apart? Roads and bridges are crumbling, airports are out of date, and the vast majority of seaports are in danger of becoming obsolete. All the result of decades of neglect. Tune in Sunday for Steve Kroft's #60Minutes report on America's infrastructure:
60 Minutes Video - The roads and bridges Americns drive
So here's to hope. Here's to the idea that we're coming to a time and place where we, the people "get it" and so, demand more, far more, from our government and representative in government.
Hopefully we can get these jobs, the improvements and updates to our infrastructure and the boost the economy needs, all three. And naturally, the sooner the better (from this do-nothing, "sue the President" Congress).
It shouldn't all just be for the wealthy and corporations.
Saturday, July 12, 2014
On the border crisis just now (guest post)
I’ve been watching media coverage of angry Americans at our southern border waiving signs and yelling slogans, insisting that the children – most of whom are refugees of the drug war we’ve created -- “go home” to the violence and death that war has created, and I wonder who these angry Americans are.
I also wonder where their parents or grandparents or other ancestors came from, and what they were fleeing from or hoped for when they landed in America. I’m not suggesting we allow in anyone who wants to come here, but these are desperate children. Whatever happened to the generosity, decency, and big-heartedness of this country?
Emma Lazarus’s poem engraved in 1903 on the Statue of Liberty reads: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of our teeming shore. Send these, the homeless tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Why are we now allowing the hateful side of America to take center stage?
--Robert Reich
Slideshow from CBS of what the children's conditions are in Nogales, AZ: http://fb.cbs5az.com/
Monday, April 14, 2014
Entertainment overnight -- electric
Hard-charging rock and roll, from the next generation of rockers:
So what if they look like they're 16.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
The tough reporting we need from our media
CBS TV program "60 Minutes" did this segment on their program years ago, 2007, shamefully, and it's an important piece:
And the thing is, now, neither CBS nor this program, "60 Minutes" no longer does this kind of honest, hard-hitting reporting on how our government is working and working against the people, against the common man and woman, the working class of our nation. They only do fluff pieces, "infortainment" on puppy dogs and skiers and sportspeople. This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we have the most expensive health care system in the world, and a lot of other systemic, endemic problems in our nation and society. The wealthy and corporations are having their way with us.
And we're letting them. Lazily letting them--the media and so, our government and the corporations and wealthy--all get away with it and in a lot of ways, most all financial.
Notice, to my knowledge, CBS and this program has never once done a tough piece like this on the big banks like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and the like, even though they famously brought us all, nationally and internationally, to the edge of a fiscal, financial cliff back in 2008,
I wonder why.
Link: Under The Influence - CBS News
Friday, January 17, 2014
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Think government surveillance is new?
The whole brouhaha over government surveillance of our emails and phone calls gives me two reactions.
First, it makes me laugh because I think people are making a great deal out of not much and second, it kind of p*sses me off because the people complaining are quite likely, also, the ones who would REALLY scream bloody murder if we WERE attacked by some wack-jobs, intent on killing and hurting people in this nation.
And for anyone who thinks this is a new phenomenon, think again.
Back in 1937, the following happened:
"When Princess Juliana of the Netherlands became a mother, CBS planned a fifteen-minute spot" on the radio, mind you "...about the new heir to the House of Orange. For reasons of scheduling, New York changed its mind. The decision to drop it, a cabled order went back to London:
"KILL JULIANA'S BABY."
That afternoon, Helen Sioussat found two FBI men at her door."*
Mind you, that's 1937, too.
When it comes to the government surveillance of our emails, so far, I come down with the likes of Right Wing, Republican, small-government, though moderate columnist David Brooks last week on NPR :
"You know, I'm not as bothered as some. I'm somewhat bothered by the secrecy, but I don't feel it's intrusive. Basically, they're running huge amounts of megadata through an algorithm. That feels less intrusive to me than the average TSA search at the airport. And so I don't think it's particularly intrusive. It is supervised by the court. It has some congressional supervision.
It seems to be reasonably narrowly focused. And so I don't regard this as a crime against our civil liberties. I regard it as a somewhat moderate and balanced way to look for people who are calling bad people."
What the government is doing was put by the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches, also, so it's not as though it hasn't been "aired out", so to speak. It was never a big secret.
And what's the alternative choice? That we have wackos with bombs running around the country for some God-knows-what purpose, trying to kill and hurt Americans?
I'll stick with the possible loss of a little privacy every time.
*Director of Talks and Public Affairs for CBS radio from 1937 to 1958. Passage taken from the book
Murrow: His Life and Times by A. M. Sperber.
Link:
Week In Politics: Sifting Through Surveillance
Additional, great article, just out this week, that rather agrees with my points:
The New Yorker: So Are We Living in 1984?
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Dammit
Some people should get a pass and be allowed to live forever.
Harvey Korman was one of them.
Comic actor Harvey Korman dies at 81
Rest in peace, Mr. Korman.
We miss you already.
We always will.
Rest in peace, Mr. Korman.
We miss you already.
We always will.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Senator Roy Blunt: David Letterman's "Stooge of the Night"
As I said I would, here is the video from "The Late Show with David Letterman" and his "Stooge of the Night" segment:
And he deserves every second and every mention.
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