TV news is evil. It purports to tell us in thirty minutes or an hour was we "need" to know but actually tells us what it wants us to know in daily doses of brainwashing. It's a big world but the national news serves up three to five stories a day and that closes the book on everything that goes on everywhere. How quaintly provincial.
The local news gives itself more elbow room, but it has weather and sports to balance. Its "news" is the same bumf on a small-potatoes level. And as far as the weather goes, when they say it's going to be a sunny day I carry an umbrella. And since I don't follow sports (I used to be a huge baseball fan but haven't the time for it these days) TV news is a commodity I never bother with.
These days for "news" the News gives us polls (which are made up and easily manipulated), yarns from web sites THEY like, with all the news people trying to be Woodstein and Burnwood but who generally act like the good old bullies who used to beat me up in my "golden" school years, getting joy out of making me fearful and miserable every day. Bullies aren't misunderstood children crying out for attention, they're nasty little sadists who get their kicks hurting smaller people like me. They ought to have their clocks cleaned, which is why they zero in on smaller targets. That sums up news people.
And despite their reliance on modern web sites to do their actual work, network news honchos yearn for days past when three networks with their hired liars had a hammerlock on telling us what we should think. And the irony is, I have a degree in journalism.
CNN is a terrible offender. With a 24-hour news cycle they really can cover the world but they repeat the same stories so often it's no wonder ordinary people think the same thing is happening again and again and again.
Yet, while the people in this episode decry what the news has become, the irony is, the US Constitution protects the web-site sort of news more than these fraudulent and self-important self-anointed high-priests of information.
Though the characters in this episode decry the male model news readers and jiggle TV news-bimbos, when they speak of people like Cronkite and Murrow they're actually support the fraudulent high priest types.
As you may have guessed, in this episode the great detective Remington and his associate Laura have to find out who is killing silly news people. I guessed who done it about the same time Laura got that look on her face.
The climax is silly and bloated with self-importance. Though I probably would have cheered it had I seen this episode when I was working on my journalism degree and genuinely wanted to change the news for the better rather than working on remaking the country in my image as nearly all TV news people do.
Someone is killing news people. Who cares? The more, the merrier.
BTW, these days, rather than being the college-aged hopeful eyeing news jobs, now I'm the same age guest star J. D. Cannon was when he made that episode. And all he says about young people and getting old on this society is more pertinent than ever.
Terrible episode, though I have a word of praise for whoever does the music. They actually made fresh songs sound like 1930s and 1940s big band tunes. The music's the best part of this mess.
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