They'd have to get off their collective asses and actually have to report some news, not some local yahoo in line at Best Buy schlepping to buy an x-box.
Truth is, they're lazy. They take the safe, convenient route that mostly everyone takes because they have virtually no creativity and drive. They know you, the masses, will, no pun, buy into it because you're accustomed.
How many times has "Black Friday" been shoved down your throat? It's day 1 and I'm already sick of it. You too, according to the people that tabulate these types of things.
Sure, its legit to gauge the early Christmas buying trends, (if any) to see if the 15 people out there who have jobs are actually buying anything, but do we really need wall-to-wall coverage? Of course not, AGAIN, but the lazy holiday shift in your average newsroom doesn't know any better.
Tension in North Korea. The TSA policy and its effect on future air travel. Local politics. A rather odd, scary takeover robbery at a Walnut Creek eatery, to hell with that--no, we need "team coverage" at the shopping malls to see a bunch of morons who stood in line to buy an Iphone.
Wonderfully insightful stuff...get used to it.
Rich, I read your blog often. Many times you are very close to the inside fire. Sometimes your reports are just smoke, that however, eventually lead to the fire.
ReplyDeleteBut respectfully, I could have predicted your Black Friday blog today, as easily as you predict the locals' Black Friday reporting. You can write it off as a turkey hangover. But for a groundbreaking media critic, writing about Black Friday is not exactly groundbreaking. To push the media to go beyond the obvious, you too have to go beyond the obvious. Or else, just like much of the local news, it's really not worth your time to write, or mine to read. Just me two cents.
Covering the early bird shoppers,asking the neighbors of an axe murderer his thoughts, standing in the rain on the side of freeways, all the stupid things that tv stations have their reporters do over and over again, is better than watching that trailer for the movie Burlesque with Cher groaning and looking like a drag queen with a face that doesn't move when she is talking.
ReplyDeleteTo the first poster above, I could have predicted your predictable response to Rich's blog today. Your response isn't groundbreaking either. You probably posted it at 3am while in line at Best Buy to get last year's "smart"phone for $2.
ReplyDeleteI understand why they make a big deal about it,its an American economic engine at full throttle.
ReplyDeleteJust worry when their isnt any money for Americans to play with even once a year.
Doh! Talk about being lazy! You can copy and paste that rant every year Rich.
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