n Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> It was "The Half-Hour News Hour," and the one episode I saw was just > spectacularly unfunny because it was simply not funny. There are times > I disagree with the politics of The Daily Show, but it's still just > damn funny. THNNH wasn't even that > > I do believe there are people within FNC who really want it to be a > legitimate news organization. The problem is that they are so in the > minority that their voices are drowned out by those who just can't > understand why people wouldn't make the logical leap between the US > and Russia signing a nuclear pact and running video of an atomic bomb > exploding. The problem is that the line of "news" versus "opinion" is > effectively down to Smith's program when Smith is actually anchoring > versus everything else. > I guess my point was that so much of FNC is already so over the top that there is no way they can parody themselves effectively. You may well be right that there are people in FNC who really want to be a legitimate news organization - it would be easier to believe they were sincere if they actually worked for an organization that wanted to be a legitimate news organization. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
