Thursday, April 28, 2005

"Tucker vs KYW"

For anyone that taped Survivor last night and didn't watch it for whatever reason. Don't read this!

Tucker is pissed, but first read the back story. I was actually going to slam them before tonight for simliar reasons.

So in the Philly/ South Jersey region Action News on Wpvi 6 (ABC affilate) has been the top rated local news show over and over again. Which is why they have such a slow turn over of talent. Action News is as Philly as the soft pretzel. Try as they might WACU 10 (NBC Affilate) and KYW 3 (CBS affilate) have not been able to kick WPVI's Action News off the hill. Okay NBC 10 won a sweeps period a few years ago. HOwever, usually the two channels are so far behind they end up fighting for 2nd place.

In the past few years KYW 3's Eye Whitness News as tried to marketself as the #1 show local news channel and tried to take on ACtion News. They even lured WPVI's veteran Marc Howard to their broadcast team which really gave them a shot in the arm. He has since moved to the evening broadcast.


Anyway, KYW 3 has taken full advantage of their highly rated CBS aired shows such as CSI. and Survivor the later is related to why this rant is here. Let me give you two shamless examples of KYW trying to get viewers of their shows afraid to flip to their prefered news show.


One was during sweeps recently. They promised bloopers of their talent. I thought that could be funny. SO I watched. Sadly, they weren't Bloopers. It was simply old footage of their talent working in other cities with bad hair and entry level jobs. Or Besley Resse dancing off camera. A few old commericals, and to top it all off their #1 was a Larry Mendte (their #1 Anchor) where he got his faced pissed in by is kid on the Dr. Phil show. But, it was fake piss, which means it was a skit, not a blooper.

The 2nd one was a few weeks ago when we all thought the Delware River Whale had gone out toe sea. They said "Sad News for Whale Watchers"; and the tone was serious. OF course the promo ran at top of the broadcast and we didn't learn if the whale had gone belly up or not till half way till Letterman. I actually fell for that one for like 3 minutes. I am ashamed.


Tonight, they really crossed a line. 15 mins into a already delayed Survivor they boasted having a contestant Stephanie's back story and family on the news tonight. The reason being shes a Philyl resident. Okay, what reason would they randomly decide to that if the show had not just started, or she won the million bucks a show that won't air for a a few more weeks. Well clearly, because she was voted off, and it turns out I was right. Anyone with even a quarter of a brain that wasn't out taking a whizz or making a sandwitch during that commerical set might as well turned off their tv.

So if your as pissed as I am. Or even pissed about the concept. Email the local affliate and rant to them! http://kyw.com/feedback/ Don't forget to say in your e-mail that you are going to just watch ACtion NEws now. That really chaps their ass. Larry Mendte also has a blog, so you can send him a message



Just thats just wrong. EYE WHITNESS NEWS>>>>>>>BANNED!

"The Rhode to Hate is Paved with Air"

My friend Drew went on a rant on his blog (the reason God invented blogs) about how some right wing leaning blog writers were saying they were glad a woman died. The woman was someone I had never heard of in my entire life, but apparently a well respected liberal of some sort. Drew said that it was MORE a right wing thing to be full of hate and what night. I respectfully disagreed. If anything I think the left wingers are more likely to resort to these type of bizarre hatred towards public figures they dislike and more likely to cheer them meeting the reaper.


Recently in the news something along those lines has happened. Of course you likely haven't heard about it since its getting less press than a Phantoms game. Randi Rhodes who hosts a show on Air America a liberal themed radio station had a skit on her show about the President getting shot. I guess the murder of the president of the United States gets some laughes with their target audience. Yeah, thats right the anti-gun people made those jokes. This is far worse than saying, I am glad so and so is dead. Both are pretty low class, but this skid is just flat otu messed up.

I didn't get to hear the actual skit, but have a transcript. Anyway, before you RUSH to judgment let me inform you that I often times actually listen to Air America. Although, not as much recently since the low singal comes in annoyingly bad in the some of the places I am during the day.

Rhodes has since said she was sorry about it, however I am sure she knew about it coming on. Then again shes such an awful radio show host that maybe she didn't. I mean professionally she has one of the worst shows I have ever heard. She rambles all over the map, comes off as just a total bitch, and sometimes her is so erratic you wonder if shes on drugs. I have heard much more polished college radio talk shows. I can't imagine if Sean Hannity had a skit with gunshots intended for John Kerry.

In addition to her having no idea what it takes to run a professional radio show, shes just awful. She spews hate for several hours. If I ever met her I would get a large sock fill it with quarters and whack her in the face with it.

So, anyway. The left wingers are more full of hate IMHO, and more likely to lower themselves to such awfulness. Oh, yeah the radio show is under a routine investigation.

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

"New Jersey Ghost Voices"

This link is to a page that contains (supposedly) audio of ghosts and some rather angry ones. These are tapes made my ghost investgators in New JErsey. So check it out. So waste your company's money and co-workers time. Or simply hog the computer lame so students can't get in to work on their finals.

Of course many of you might easily dimiss this stuff, however it doesn't mean that they can't be freaky or the very least entertaining.

Feel free to tip your blog writer on the way out.

"Bad Joke; Double Header

I have been really busy lately. So blogging has been light. Look for hopefully lots of updates late this weekend and through the weekend.

To throw my readers a bone who went almost a week without any thing new to read. Bad Joke Day will be a double header this week.


Why did the baker rob the bank?
He needed the dough.




What do you call a fly with no wings?
A walk.

Sunday, April 24, 2005

"Super Sunday: The Look"

Here is a peak at the new Superman for the film due out next year. http://www.superherohype.com/news/supermannews.php?id=2890

Also, there are rumors flying around that footage that Richard Donner shot with Marlon Brando for SUperman II will be used in this film. That is kind of out there so I am not sure I buy into that rumor.

Basically Superman and Superman II were shot at the same time. HOwever, production delays led them to just focus on the first one. After the first one was released Richard Donner (for reasons still mostly unknown) was fired. This caused a huge up roar from the cast.

Brando, was originally supposed to show up in the sequel even though he was only in the first film for 6 mins. He asked the producers for a share of the profits of the film and a more money, t hey said no. So, they couldn't use his scene. The scenes have been sitting somewhere in a vault for years. I would rather them be cleaned up and put back into Superman II though.

Oddly enough it would team up the late Brando with this On the Water Front Co-star.