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Why Television Must Die
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Marty - 03:03am on 03/12/2008
I did something I rarely do this morning—I turned on the TV.  I don’t even have cable, but what did I find?

At 7:30am, all 3 of the major network morning shows — the Early Show, Good Morning America, and the Today Show — were running “exclusive” expose’s on “High Priced Call Girls”.  These were not stories about the Gov. Spitzer scandal — they were special interest pieces describing the glamorous and wealthy lifestyles of overpaid whores.

I question the need for any one of these networks to show this kind of a story at 7:30am — but the fact that all three of them did so at exactly the same time of day reveals something far more insidious.

It’s only a question of when, not if, I yank the TV out of the wall and throw it through my window…
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