Media Critic Extraordinaire Gifts

Turn off the tv! Blasphemy. I have Extreme Partisanship Syndrome. I can't hear about politics. I get too riled up. It could kill me. No more Fox, or MSNBC, or even the networks. Fine, but there are other options. Can't this kill me too? Just the mind. Tonight on Biggest Loser: Jog eating.

Trial by Media

Squeezing the Free Press.

'Personally I take all these programmes with a pinch of salt.'

Department of Theatre, Film and Television: Lights...Camera...Unemployment!

News and Magazines. Celebrity gossip. Sports scandals. Political bickering. We're out of the "information age" and well into the "too much information age"!

"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

Donald Trump Playing Golf With Hair On Fire

"See..? We told you there was nothing there..."

BBC - Crisis Management, Damage Control and Liability Supervision.

Difference of Opinion

Meet the Enemy

"If I 'HAD IT ALL' it would it be enough?"

'There's nothing on.'

'Thank heavens! For a minute there I thought it was the news!'

'We interrupt this programme for a sex flash.'

"The regular Fox news commentator was canned for being too soft on Iran. I'm Dick Cheney."

Florida Governor, Rick Scott, cuts funding for rape victims.

"Whoever made Keir Starmer did a sound professional job."

"And by president we mean the one on Saturday night tv, not the real one. He kinda sucks."

Sci-Fi Museum. New Exhibit. H.G. Wells War of the Worlds. In 1938, Orson Welles broadcast "War of the Worlds," a radio drama about aliens from Mars invading earth. The radio drama was presented as a series of fake news reports about devastation caused by the invading aliens. Many listeners turned in to the program mid-roadcast and thought the news reports were real. Widespread panic ensued. Wow! Orson Welles caused all that panic with a radio program. Just imagine what he could have don

"Well, at least it's an improvement from last night."

Caution: Driver Watching "Hard Copy"

"I'm more of a 'How Jen stays thin' person than a 'Why Jen won't let Brad alone' person."

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

'Contrary to the popular view, our studies show that it is real life that contributes to violence on television.'

"Which news channel should we watch?"

"This just in: one of us always tells lies; the other always tells the truth. Who's who? Stay tuned."

"It's wonderful to be away from the rat race. So, what happened on 'CSI: Miami' last night?"

"Since you have already been convicted by the media, I imagine we can wrap this up pretty quickly."

"Er...nothing much has happened yet today...."

'My plan for the mid east has approval of both Houses of Congress, Oprah, Larry King, Lettermen and Leno.'

'Georgy Porgy kiss 'n' tell story.'

'Everyone distrusts spin. . . so let's go back to old-fashioned lying.'

Tunnel of TV