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[Purple Haze]

So it has to be a slow news day. I'm getting ready for work this morning with the TV on, and Katie Couric has the two-screen thing going on, they usually reserve this for important interviews, and she's talking very seriously with a Culver City police officer.

Looks important, so I turn up the sound and this grave news is that Robert Downey Jr. has been arrested for walking. It was as long an interview as you would ever see on the Today show, but no detail of substance was revealed. But of course at 10 eastern time, MSNBC will have a more detailed "profile" about this guy.

When is Walter Cronkite gonna pull out a can of whup-ass on these so-called journalists, and send that stupid ass Katie Couric back to working at JCPenney's shoe department. What the fuck is going on here?

[Edited by Purple Haze on 04-25-2001 at 12:15 PM]

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

They are all drunk with the power of......

TV ratings.

 

[April]

LMFAO Better watch out, or they'll be talking tonight about what Bush is eating for dinner. Gawd! I just KNOW that's gonna make the lead story on the news tonight.

Yeah, he's supposed to be in the area tonight. Having a $10,000 a plate fund raising dinner. Whoop-de-fucking-do.

 

[R Nitelight]

Actually, Morton Downey Jr. was arrested for being dead.
I believe Robert Downey Jr. was also arrested...

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

[Edited by Dixon Carter Lee on 06-01-2001 at 02:21 PM]

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Local News is what I truly hate. The other night the ENTIRE newscast was taken up by three helicopter filmed car chases through various parts of Los Angeles. I guess nothing was going on in the Middle East or Northern Ireland or Africa or even Beverly Hills for God's sake.

 

[OUTSIDER]

Morton was a friend of a friend, and he used to drop by our group's frequent bar-b-que parties, but he always used a fake name, as if we wouldn't recognize him. And man, the man could talk about nothing else but cigarettes and cancer. He'd corner you and just launch...Poor guy.

Also dead: The guy who played Tackleberry in "Police Acadmey". He was a beloved man out here, worked hard for the union and would give you the shirt off his back. He had a heart attack on the dance floor of his brother's wedding. He had two sweet kids...Poor guy.

Robert Downey arrested again, and mightnot get another "second chance". Hmmm...Poor guy.

Tackleberry is dead...man that sucks, I loved that guy and thought he was great in the police acadmey films....

 

[Madame Pandora]

Also dead: The guy who played Tackleberry in "Police Acadmey". He was a beloved man out here, worked hard for the union and would give you the shirt off his back. He had a heart attack on the dance floor of his brother's wedding. He had two sweet kids...Poor guy.

David Graf DIED???? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?????

I thought he was just on Star Trek!

Holy Hell. I met him at a fundraiser once a while back. He was a hell of a nice guy!! He was an Aries, too.

Damn.

MP

 

[OUTSIDER]

Local News is what I truly hate. The other night the ENTIRE newscast was taken up by three helicopter filmed car chases through various parts of Los Angeles. I guess nothing was going on in the Middle East or Northern Ireland or Africa or even Beverly Hills for God's sake.

I know I always bang on about it but if you want the news then only the BBC will do.

 

[April]

Dude, you can't always get that here, you know. CNN does a fine job, anyway.

Sorry about the californiaism.

 

[OUTSIDER]

Dude, you can't always get that here, you know. CNN does a fine job, anyway.

Sorry about the californiaism.

thats ok Buuuuudy I was jus wheeezing the juuuuuuuice.
hey turn off the tv and turn on the radio "BBC World service" you know it makes sense....

 

[dza]

a good # of PBS stations will run atleast a 1/2 hour of BBC World, which isn't bad, though i think pbs does a fine job themselves.

 

[OUTSIDER]

BBC world (TV) show an hour or half an hour of CBS news I think every night and when I catch that I rather like it, I'm not keen on CNN though, can't say why but I just can't get on with CNN.

 

[Siren]

What I hate is the fucking Promos for what is coming up in the NEWS cast......

 

[CreamyLady]

I thought the Tosco refinery fire that was covered -- in every sense of the word -- two days ago was kind of interesting. Exploding petroleum products are spectacular.

Much more interesting than Robert Downey, Jr.