On Apr 25, 10:33 am, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > Ratings are ratings, and they're shrinking, and as a commenter > reminds, her network has its OWN problems... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg2-AtKvQeQ
No matter what you think of her, she's dead right. Unfortunately, soap fans are overly sensitive (thanks to all those years where soaps--or anything on daytime TV that wasn't pre-1985 Phil Donahue--were a favorite target of lazy critics who wanted an easy target to write about) and are unable to grasp the fact that the genre is not what it used to be. I had as a Facebook friend a woman I believe I went to college with who worked as an extra on the ABC daytime soaps based in New York. Since ABC made the announcement, she's just gone off the rails, posting a blog post by a woman complaining about how Snooki is presented as a role model and how "Jersey Shore" is called "quality TV" (I don't know any reputable critic that's called "Jersey Shore" "quality" or Snooki a "role model"--hell, MTV doesn't call it "quality"). When Winfrey's statement went up last week, this woman and her gay friends went over- the-top attacking Winfrey and her friends, including lots of "dyke" remarks about Gayle King and "beard" remarks about Stedman Graham, and I decided that even if you're negative (or neutral, like me) about Winfrey, this was way too much--I immediately defriended this person and am glad I won't have to be reading her crap through January when "OLTL" goes off. I understand how she feels, but damn it, it's just two frickin' daytime soap operas that have run too long. -- 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
