Wesley McGee wrote:
> In addition to the usual ad clutter on the bottom about what show is
> next, what show comes on tomorrow/next week/next fall/etc., CBS has
> been running a set of blurbs ("Only CBS
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/04/only-cbs-cbs-launches-unp_n_195556.html>")
> about how CBS is great and growing and successful and is so not in
> need of a bailout of some sort. Now NBC Universal is going to air a
> network-group-spanning commercial
> <http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/another-opportunity-to-mock-nbc-uni/>
> (set your TiVos) tonight sometime around 8pm/7pm central about how NBC
> owns your TV, your internets, your movie theatres and whatever else
> that will show the world that the networks of USA are great and
> growing and successful and is so not in need of a bailout of some sort.
>
> Shouldn't this be saved for those investor reports and upfront
> presentations and calls to the individual panicked advertisers whom
> themselves are having trouble selling stuff in our Great Recession.
>
> The rar-rar-raring is starting to get offputting.
Last week, I had to explain to my wife that "The Weather Channel weekend
forecast sponsored by Home Depot" ad during 30 Rock wasn't a joke - just
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