monthly TV "in-ass-faults"

Where oh where to begin?? Well let me start with Giuliana DePandi, the E news co-anchor now fated and saddle up on the pony boy Seacrest. Giu is perhaps one of the most purely ironic talking heads in the media. She demonstrates not one wit of conscious awareness of what she is told to say, what it means, how it is presented, nor if there is any contextual meaning to it at all. That she could fathom the miniscule depths of possible subtext is clearly impossible. Of course she knows she is getting paid a great deal of money, and is apparently willing to look bizarrely ridiculous to prove that (pleat puckers on her academy dress provided backup nipples to her own ones on her breasts--or when her obvious pubic hair[unwaxed like most of the celebs she celebrates] is pushing out on tight fitting skirts). But someone, somewhere in the system that provides this program with productorial and directorial guidance, must be aware of the complete breakdown of validity. It is as if Seinfeld were actually the anchor of the CBS evening news; one could never ever be sure that what he said was real in anyway whatsoever. Giu is incapable of any self-critique (except of course for her probable delusion regarding the way she must appear to herself in a mirror), and more than willing to shill the most abhorrent of lines promoting upcoming "shocking" video evidence of a celebrity being publicized, because some agency has paid for the publicity to happen at this point in time. This one half-hour program alone would make for a fascinating and informative seminar course in a cultural studies grad school. It is especially wonderful when Giu expresses her emotional revulsion for the paparazzi's efforts in providing her program with its material. "Just look how this paparazzi had to have violated X's privacy to get these pictures, it is just a shame."

King of the Hill is, in my mind, substantively responsible for the christo-fascist redneck stupid idiocy in the last two election cycles. The hero of the show is a bigoted, arrogant, stupidly conservative fascist, who is always shown to be ultimately right and good, while ridiculing all aspects of US life except those that represent all that is good in white, male, middle-class, earth-destroying, psychological-child-abusing, GOP voting amerikans. The show promotes toxification of the earth, celebrates verbal and emotional abuse of women and children, distrust of any education outside of the white male's home domain, and so forth. For ten years, Fox has brought this program to the homes of those that most strongly support Bushco, letting them know that Hank Hill is just the way they need to be to succeed. And there is no doubt in my mind that that is the intent and purpose of the show, which has run excessively longer than it ever should have.

Piggy-backing on 24 and Oceans 11/12/13, this season has brought us several new "dramas" that celebrate and honor the military and technological power of the elites to do as they please outside any laws or constitutional sanctions. The Unit may be the worst of these (though the short lived E Ring was an even more vile example), in that this specialized team doesn't seem to have any reason to comply with any rule of law whatsoever as long as the killing needs to be done for purely emotional revenge purposes. Although US law forbids political assassination of foreign leaders of any persuasion, these "good" guys just follow the orders that allow them to violate this law with not one consideration of consequence. Likewise we have no less than three programs that promote elitist theft by special squads of mastermind criminals who have inflitrated all levels of authority for the purpose of increasing their wealth and status. The resources expended by the programs to show the resources required by the "teams" is the uroboros manifesting just how the mass of the population not millionaires are to play the submissive subservient role of acceptance of these people in our lives should they actually exist. And they do exist, in the form of corporate executives and corrupt governmental leaderships, all free to continue to do as they please because, well, the good guys are the bad guys remember. And just how many FBI-based shows can we have on at one time???

If you can't get enough of one set of shows you are now free to watch them all over again, and again, and again, day after day, on multiple channels owned and operated by the big four. Couple that with these corporate giants movie production companies and nearly 70% of all the hundreds of channels are controlled by just four executive boards of media. It becomes especially bad at the local level, when, for example in my city, one board owns the broadcast affiliates of each of the four. The incapacity to present any possible counter programming is of paramount importance to these people, in that they are so entirely dependent upon the views and opinions of their corporate patrons, they cannot dare to raise a challenge. It is especially ludicrous when you get Fox News broadcast on the WB channel, then repeated on the CBS affiliate, while running simultaneous on the local Fox one. Same anchors, same news, same Fox based views. Is this a problem??? Damn straight.