I've been laid up for a week with a foot
injury but the long term wound will be to my already weakened brain,
from exposure to television. In the course of this marathon
Orlando's WKMG has been running a montage designed to convince people
how great their news show is, how honest they are and how they're
just out there making everybody's lives better in the community.
Somehow they feel it's important to
give the impression that one of their female reporters goes fishing,
probably to bolster the “just folks” feeling. In aid of this
goal they show her pretending to cast a spinning rod.from a seawall.
Apparently nobody at that station ever went fishing or even knows what fishing is, especially her,
because no one on Earth can cast a spinning rod they way she's
holding it. It's far worse, even, then upside down spinning reel
syndrome.
My question is, “If they can't even
be trusted to put together an ad without trying to deceive their
viewers, then how much peanut butter is really on the moon?
Spread this level of integrity over
the entire country, local and national news, exaggerate it
commensurate with the perceived size of a given story and that's an awful
lot of cream cheese buttocks in Peoria. And why shouldn't we?
