Comments on: This Blows

By: Excellent News! at The Mock Dock

Excellent News! at The Mock Dock — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:38:19 +0000

[...] through the whole kinoki foot pad extravaganza? And then remember how much it sucked when Red Lasso shut itself down and prevented people from being able to view the video of our 6 minutes of fame? Well, I am happy [...]

By: Lioness

Lioness — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:34:54 +0000

Twilight Zone. The Matrix. Conspiracy theorists. They had it right after all, and we thought they were a bunch of hokies.

By: buckeye bob

buckeye bob — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:42:04 +0000

Do not adjust your set. We control it. You will watch what we want you to watch when we want you to watch it. You may not tell anyone about what you saw without our express written consent. Any infringment on our copyrighted material will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We will run the world.
Signed
The Networks

By: cobrien

cobrien — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:53:54 +0000

I feel really bad about this because this is such a fun and funny website. I hope you can continue to maintain it without the videos.

By: sbarros

sbarros — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:23:26 +0000

Yeah, TiVo!

But back to the topic here, it is really a shame that the big corporate news media continue to control what we see (or don’t see) every day. I myself do not watch those two stations mentioned.

By: Pris

Pris — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:36:31 +0000

I can spend weeks without turning my TV on…. and with digital TV when I’m out of a good book to read or other stuff do to I just do a search of what’ll be on and set it to tape… than whenever I feel like watching what I taped I just put it on and skip all the commercials. I’ve always HATED commercials so I’m real glad digital TV came along… (even though ads are always sneaked into the shows & films anyway)

By: Hatchetwoman

Hatchetwoman — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:23:23 +0000

I didn’t finish my thought in the first paragraph: “Most women I know watch The Food Network and shows like Clean House and Trading Spaces. They don’t watch series television or reality tv, and if they want to see a movie, they rent it via Netflix. Fictional (series) television hasn’t been their first choice for a long time.”

By: Hatchetwoman

Hatchetwoman — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:21:25 +0000

It may be my age, or possibly the people I know, but it seems to me that fewer and fewer people are watching television anymore. Most women I know watch The Food Network and shows like Clean House and Trading Spaces.

Getting cable really opened my eyes to the HypeMachine. When a fictional story about pirates is going to premiere as a movie, and everything from the History Network to Nickelodeon suddenly has shows about pirates, it kind of brings home how manipulated the “trends” (and the public) really are.

Being able to pick and choose your own clips breaks their power of manipulation — yeah, it’s about money, ultimately, but not so much the violation of copyright as much as the interference with the HypeMachine, I think.

By: wordwych

wordwych — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:57:16 +0000

Definitely sucky! B@stards.

By: buckeye bob

buckeye bob — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:30:28 +0000

The greed of the big companies is just unbelievable anymore. I was watching the other day and they actually interupted a commercial to show a little bit of a show.