In the It-Couldn't-Happen-To-A-Nicer-Gang Department:
NewsMax.com now reveals that "Fifty-nine-and-a-half Minutes Too Late on Wednesday" is about to suffer a mid-season cancellation. (Hat Tip: L. Ron Hubbard for his gleeful renaming of CBS' Sixty Minutes in his ten-volume series Mission Earth)
Of course, I've had my quarrel with Sixty Minutes, both editions, for some time. Dan Rather's "Memogate" was merely the last straw. But it's nice to know that yes, boycotts do work, on the oldest principle of economics: What happens if you offer a product for sale and nobody comes? As the story shows, the Wednesday spinoff was already in the ratings cellar--and when Dan Rather tried to pass off Microsoft Word documents as 1971-era typewritten documents, he succeeded only in making the last viewers switch off in anger. (Hat tip: LittleGreenFootballs. See Joseph Newcomer's brilliant analysis of the Killian Memo Forgery, in case any doubt remains after all this time.)
That said, the real question is why CBN, for example, does not have a Sixty Minutes of its own. Part of the answer might be that many, if not most, of my fellow believers don't watch TV--and if shows like this are any indicator, I can't blame them. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.) But the other part might be that Christians don't last in the elite schools of "journalism" (ROFL!), and beyond that, Christians have been ministering on shoestring budgets ever since the original Pentecost [Acts chapters 2-8], and that's when they weren't forced to take to the hills! Still, something's got to change here. We should have our own investigative-journalistic programs, and fight like Richard the Lionhearted to get our people properly accredited! WorldNetDaily managed it, so why can't we?
Of course, I've had my quarrel with Sixty Minutes, both editions, for some time. Dan Rather's "Memogate" was merely the last straw. But it's nice to know that yes, boycotts do work, on the oldest principle of economics: What happens if you offer a product for sale and nobody comes? As the story shows, the Wednesday spinoff was already in the ratings cellar--and when Dan Rather tried to pass off Microsoft Word documents as 1971-era typewritten documents, he succeeded only in making the last viewers switch off in anger. (Hat tip: LittleGreenFootballs. See Joseph Newcomer's brilliant analysis of the Killian Memo Forgery, in case any doubt remains after all this time.)
That said, the real question is why CBN, for example, does not have a Sixty Minutes of its own. Part of the answer might be that many, if not most, of my fellow believers don't watch TV--and if shows like this are any indicator, I can't blame them. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.) But the other part might be that Christians don't last in the elite schools of "journalism" (ROFL!), and beyond that, Christians have been ministering on shoestring budgets ever since the original Pentecost [Acts chapters 2-8], and that's when they weren't forced to take to the hills! Still, something's got to change here. We should have our own investigative-journalistic programs, and fight like Richard the Lionhearted to get our people properly accredited! WorldNetDaily managed it, so why can't we?
posted by Temlakos at 12:12 PM
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