You can make toast with an iron, but you can't iron with a toaster.

That's My Story and I'm Stickin' to It

by booksay

 

My

internal

cop

arrested

me

and

seized

the

previous entry contained here.

 

 

"We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it may see a totally different picture too late."

                                                                                         Edward R. Murrow

 

But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

                                                                                          Newton Minnow

 

 

   

 darkenchantress by darkenchantress

 

A charming, refreshing and innocent insight on the promise and possibilities of  youth in America. Bravo darkenchantress. You are a role model for your generation. May the moonshine always kiss your face.

 

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Me by Me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And not to be accused of lacking in levity...

   ... some "high-brow" television to digest: HERE

 

 

and Primetime Sunday television from 1959:

 

	7:00 PM	7:30 PM	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Colt .45	Maverick		The Lawman	The Rebel	The Alaskans		Dick Clark's World of Talent
CBS	Lassie	Dennis the Menace	The Ed Sullivan Show		General Electric Theater	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	The Jack Benny Show/ The George Gobel Show	What's My Line?
NBC	Riverboat		Sunday Showcase		The Dinah Shore Chevy Show		The Loretta Young Show

 

 

 

My personal contribution to the useless pop-crap repository: 

Famous pseudonyms:

President Gerald Ford = Leslie Lynch King, Jr.

Tom Cruise = Tom Mapother IV

Bono = Paul Hewson

Woody Allen = Allen Konigsberg

Elvis Costello = Declan McManus

Whoopie Goldberg = Caryn Johnson

Ben Kingsley = Krishna Banji

Stevie Wonder = Steveland Morris Hardaway

 

And for the offended and thin-skinned I offer the following:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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