CBS screwed the pooch

Apparently, CBS really fucked up Wednesday. An "overzealous"
producter broke into the last five minutes of CSI: New York with news
that AraFat had died. They are reairing the episode tonight. Since I
already had two shows going on the DVR, I couldn't record it. So I
get to see it after all.

More people cared about the end of a TV show than the end of a
terrorist.

--
dillon

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Dillon Pyron wrote:

> An "overzealous"
> producter broke into the last five minutes of CSI: New York with news
> that AraFat had died.
> More people cared about the end of a TV show than the end of a
> terrorist.

The networks always confuse our need to hear the latest news with their need to beat
the other networks. Whichever network I was watching when TWA 800 went down
interrupted the show to say they had "an unconfirmed report that a plane may have
gone down" or something similar. Maybe it's just my cynicism, but I parsed it as "we
think we have a news story, and later on we'll tell you if we're right".


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Dillon Pyron comments:
>>More people cared about the end of a TV show than the end of a terrorist.<<

Damn right! They couldda waited five minutes; Arafat would still be dead.

"GWB" wrote ...
> Damn right! They couldda waited five minutes; Arafat would still be dead.

Ahhh, but that would have put it during the commercial time and thus they
wouldn't have been able to bill for it... Priorities...

Sure is nice of them to be hiding the fact that Arafat died from AIDS...

> More people cared about the end of a TV show than the end of a
> terrorist.

Normally, the TV show, which people wanted to see, won't be seen again. The
terrorist, which people don't want to see, won't be either.

Lee

Grumman-581 wrote:
> "GWB" wrote ...
>
>>Damn right! They couldda waited five minutes; Arafat would still be dead.
>
>
> Ahhh, but that would have put it during the commercial time and thus they
> wouldn't have been able to bill for it... Priorities...
>
> Sure is nice of them to be hiding the fact that Arafat died from AIDS...
>
>
I don't care how he died, it was more about the way he lived. If he had
Aids - tough shit. My wife was mad that the wife didn;t get any of
his money - well we found out she is left pretty well of financially.

I was always taught to speak well of the dead, so Arafat is dead, GOOD!

>I was always taught to speak well of the dead, so Arafat is dead, GOOD!
>

Reminds me of that old famous Mark Twain remark along the lines of :

" I didnt go to the funeral, but I sent a letter saying I approved"

Where can I send my Yessir Old(dead)Fart letter?:)

BTW, if you want to read something blasphemous and funny as hell, read Mark
Twains Letters from Earth

take care

Blll

BllFs6 wrote:

>>I was always taught to speak well of the dead, so Arafat is dead, GOOD!
>>
>
>
> Reminds me of that old famous Mark Twain remark along the lines of :
>
> " I didnt go to the funeral, but I sent a letter saying I approved"
>
> Where can I send my Yessir Old(dead)Fart letter?:)
>
> BTW, if you want to read something blasphemous and funny as hell, read Mark
> Twains Letters from Earth

Or " a Yankee at King Arthur's Court"

Matthias

Now watch the media drag this out ad naseum, the way they did Generalissimo
Francisco Franco. (He's still dead, isn't he?)

"GWB" <gwb3483@aol.compost> wrote in message
>
> Damn right! They couldda waited five minutes; Arafat would still be dead.

>From: gwb3483@aol.compost (GWB)
>Date: 11/13/2004 2:19 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <20041113021909.07763.00000680@mb-m01.aol.com>
>
>Dillon Pyron comments:
>>>More people cared about the end of a TV show than the end of a terrorist.<<
>
>Damn right! They couldda waited five minutes; Arafat would still be dead.

I think it's slap-assed hysterical that America's mainstream chief reaction
to Scumbag Arafat's death was that it interrupted a popular TV program.


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