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Saturday, March 04, 2006
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Watching the worst train wrecks this morning on Spike TV and all through the show they keep showing teasers of a clip to come. A clip of someone walking across the tracks when they should be waiting for the green light. Yeah, I know it's pretty sick that I wanted to see this, but it's just wrong that they never showed the complete clip. They show everything right up to when the train is half a second from sending its victim flying through the air, freeze-frame, replay the clip and freeze it in the same spot and then roll the credits. That's just wrong--it's false advertising. I might very well have changed channels had they not been teasing me all along.
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Make a note to ban false advertising in Hey Paulsville. The broadcast in question, however, may have originated in Mediaville, a small town where media owners and their families have chosen to dwell, a town where keeping your attention is a much higher priority than keeping you ultimately satisfied. It would be wrong of Hey Paulsville to attempt to tell Mediaville how to conduct itself, by insisting that they broadcast only true advertising as opposed to false, as you interpret it, since its citizens moved there of their own free will for the express purpose of living their lives as they saw fit. Besides, they would rightfully say that you are not obligated in any way to watch their broadcasts. There's a lot of truth in that. So, the only viable alternative would be for Hey Paulsville to establish a town censorship council to screen all media filtering into town in order to protect its citizens from those things they moved to Hey Paulsville specifically to avoid. Those troublemakers who complained about censorship would be reminded that if Hey Paulsville no longer seems like the place they want to live, then perhaps they should find another town more to their liking.
Saturday, March 04, 2006
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