Things That Are Strange
Mar. 8th, 2011 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcellinafuriosaReading "Down and Out In Paris and London" while Suze Orman is on TV preaching at straw men and encouraging everyone to be a miser.
Was not "Nightline" once a fairly serious news program? Like, not as hard-hitting as "Frontline" but still the sort of thing you could turn to if you wanted to hear an attempt at an ideologically-neutral review of important* trends and current events? Not stories on fad diets and puff pieces for the latest celebrity books?
(Sorry. I am in a ranty mood. Before "D&OIP&L" I was reading "1984".)
*I don't know, maybe for some people the perfect meatball is just as important as the fight for human rights.
Was not "Nightline" once a fairly serious news program? Like, not as hard-hitting as "Frontline" but still the sort of thing you could turn to if you wanted to hear an attempt at an ideologically-neutral review of important* trends and current events? Not stories on fad diets and puff pieces for the latest celebrity books?
(Sorry. I am in a ranty mood. Before "D&OIP&L" I was reading "1984".)
*I don't know, maybe for some people the perfect meatball is just as important as the fight for human rights.
