I swear, you fucking Gawker people need a competent copy editor. I know journalism's not really your thing there, Gawker employees, but could you please start trying to spell words correctly? It's 'Ethiopia,' dipshit, not 'Etiopia.' How Nick Denton continues to employ quasi illiterates in big, bad New York City, I'll never know or understand.
@ConnieMortadella: Thank you for your redundant observation. I bet you can buy those Ts on the street, too, but I know for a FACT that you can get them on military bases in the theaters of war, as well.
@hrtshpdbox: Absolutely. But obviously you didn't serve in the military and don't understand the mindset of these young, gung-ho enlisted guys.
@Bill Zilla: No -- the T-shirt doesn't make him a vet, but he sure looks the profile of a serviceman on the way home or back from leave ... while wearing something like this in transit. Ha, ha -- and believe me, not all vets are perfectly aware of the tragedy of war. There are plenty of adrenaline-war junkies serving on active duty.
Then again, sure -- this could be a wannabe vet.
Either way, sayings and messages of war on T-shirts have been common since the first Gulf War.
There's always some U.S. military ooh-rah operation or deployment Ts made up and sold on bases abroad.
Then again, sure -- this could be a wannabe vet.
Either way, sayings and messages of war on T-shirts have been common since the first Gulf War.
There's always some U.S. military ooh-rah operation or deployment Ts made up and sold on bases abroad.
He's a vet, obviously. That message adornes (adorned) the back of every HumVee in Iraq during the war. The same signs are on the backs of U.S. military vehicles in Afghanistan. It gives the U.S. military 'the right' to fire on other vehicles they 'deem' to be getting too close in traffic as they bull their convoys through busy intersections. The first time I saw them I thought they were absurd and showed just how big of buffoons the U.S. military are.
It's funny to write about fat chicks! Seriously! HAHAHAHAHA! And come on -- dude's in college, not NASA!
@Sarah Beuhler: He's a great bloke and fellow Limey ... but alas, I'm gainfully employed (by a genuine international news agency). Cheers.
@BicycleShed: "But you've constructed an argument in which those at ABC, CBS and NBC share certain characteristics that those on cable apparently don't." YEAH, THAT THEY'VE BEEN AROUND SINCE THE 1950s-'60s (hell, 'Meet the Press since 1947).
And everyone knows the networks play by different rules (FCC, whatever) and are much more sensitive to how the public will react. It's called a 'share' ... as in, are they beating the other networks in the 10-11 a.m. eastern time slots on Sundays for those genre of shows.
For example, CNN waits to run John King's show until AFTER the big three have run theirs, hoping viewers will switch over, because whether you realize it or not, several million people tune in to the big three networks' shows every Sunday.
The cable networks' newer-to-the-scene shows (relatively speaking) can't compete with the networks' old-guard shows.
Remember, think like a white-man executive running a major network in this country. ( ... that is where this arguement is coming from.)
And everyone knows the networks play by different rules (FCC, whatever) and are much more sensitive to how the public will react. It's called a 'share' ... as in, are they beating the other networks in the 10-11 a.m. eastern time slots on Sundays for those genre of shows.
For example, CNN waits to run John King's show until AFTER the big three have run theirs, hoping viewers will switch over, because whether you realize it or not, several million people tune in to the big three networks' shows every Sunday.
The cable networks' newer-to-the-scene shows (relatively speaking) can't compete with the networks' old-guard shows.
Remember, think like a white-man executive running a major network in this country. ( ... that is where this arguement is coming from.)
Awww, Hamilton Nolan didn't go to a party- and sports-oriented uni, did he? :(
But he wishes he dwid, dwidn't he? Awwww, doo doo boo boo? :(
Guess Mr. Nolan went to Wesleyan and was fairly bored. :(
But he wishes he dwid, dwidn't he? Awwww, doo doo boo boo? :(
Guess Mr. Nolan went to Wesleyan and was fairly bored. :(
@Mr.Anansi: Ha, ha. Rich -- creative! However, if you only knew. But alas ... Dehna hun!
@TheJubjubBird: Tell it to the execs who've made the decisions at NBC, CBS and ABC through the decades.
@Mr.Anansi: Christ, don't get to the U.S. Midwest, Northern Tier, Southwest or Southeast much, do ya'? Let's just say I'm drawing upon my own experiences in these parts of the nation, simply. Parse it up all you want, fella.
@TheJubjubBird: Don't you people see that I'm telling it to you in the way that is taking the devil's advocate position? Haven't you a clue as to how news executives think?
I'm not sure where you interpret here, TheJubjubBird, what leap I've 'made.'
Americans feel they're being talked down to if it is in a Fancy-pants (supposed) British accent. Middle Americans don't relate.
What don't you understand?
I'm not sure where you interpret here, TheJubjubBird, what leap I've 'made.'
Americans feel they're being talked down to if it is in a Fancy-pants (supposed) British accent. Middle Americans don't relate.
What don't you understand?
@Mr.Anansi: Cheers to Joe Smith, then!
@BicycleShed: My intent all along was only ever with the old-guard shows on the old 'Big-Three' networks.
There is no cable news political news show older than a few years to maybe two decades -- and certainly nothing past 1980. 'Meet the Press,' 'Face the Nation' and 'This Week' have each been around for decades.
The cable news outlets can also take the liberty to take risks, given that they are 24-hour operations and HAVE to fill time and make things variety oriented.
The Big Three have a half an hour every day and then a half hour to an hour to connect with their viewers.
I am not speaking about all 'Sunday morning news programs.' The execs at NBC, CBS and ABC have been far more conservative over the years. Christ, look how long it took them to put a woman in an anchor's seat!
There is no cable news political news show older than a few years to maybe two decades -- and certainly nothing past 1980. 'Meet the Press,' 'Face the Nation' and 'This Week' have each been around for decades.
The cable news outlets can also take the liberty to take risks, given that they are 24-hour operations and HAVE to fill time and make things variety oriented.
The Big Three have a half an hour every day and then a half hour to an hour to connect with their viewers.
I am not speaking about all 'Sunday morning news programs.' The execs at NBC, CBS and ABC have been far more conservative over the years. Christ, look how long it took them to put a woman in an anchor's seat!
@Six and a Quarter: "There'll be peace when you are done. Lay your weary head to rest, don't you cry no more."
@Six and a Quarter: Keep up -- I am -- and have been, as stated clearly throughout the thread, talking about the NBC, CBS and ABC national nightly news broadcasts AND their Sunday-morning, political-news shows. That's been the point all through this. Didn't read it through, did ya'?
And where did you infer "successful?" The point is related to what news executives do or don't know about who Americans -- across the board -- prefer to have their news delivered to them by.
Where in the ball-idiotic fu** do you get bringing in an 'American Idol' parallel analogy here? Bet you born after 1980, 'ey?
And where did you infer "successful?" The point is related to what news executives do or don't know about who Americans -- across the board -- prefer to have their news delivered to them by.
Where in the ball-idiotic fu** do you get bringing in an 'American Idol' parallel analogy here? Bet you born after 1980, 'ey?
@Sarah Beuhler: Sure. What? -- sarah.beuhler@jezebel-geek-commenter-hates-men-of-all-forms.com?
@Sarah Beuhler: Look it up on Poynter or even Mediaite. Demographics. News execs watch them closely. That's what's called a news 'alert,' for your benefit.
@Mr.Anansi: I have stated clearly that I am speaking specifically of NBC, CBS and ABC -- and that is all. I'm not referring to the gamut of American-news broadcasters.
The reason you've never heard an evening news anchor from any of those networks' 6:30 p.m., half-hour broadcast, or from any of their Sunday-morning political shows, is because there has never been a 'foreign-accented' host/anchor on any of those shows before, twit!
Never really followed news business management, have ya'?
You're right. I've never, ever, ever worked in journalism.
Cheers!
The reason you've never heard an evening news anchor from any of those networks' 6:30 p.m., half-hour broadcast, or from any of their Sunday-morning political shows, is because there has never been a 'foreign-accented' host/anchor on any of those shows before, twit!
Never really followed news business management, have ya'?
You're right. I've never, ever, ever worked in journalism.
Cheers!
