Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:agz From: agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta) Newsgroups: net.tv,net.flame Subject: Re: ABC vs. the USA Message-ID: <395@pucc-k> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 00:15:33 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-k.395 Posted: Fri Oct 12 00:15:33 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 04:45:38 EDT References: <989@ihuxw.UUCP> <12584@mgweed.UUCP> Organization: Alcohol Design and Application Corp. Lines: 45 > I can see no good reason why all three networks have to carry the > debates. Do you get ABC but not NBC or CBS in your area? As a matter of fact (living in a basement apartment and not wanting to pay for cable), I do only get NBC. I don't remember anyone stating that you had to be able to afford it to get the news. I get a little tired of all the lunkheads writing into to anywhere that they feel is appropriate and bitching because some network broadcast a speech by the president, a convention, a debate, the president getting shot, the beginning of WWIII, or any other item that is news-worthy to the entire populace because it pre-empted their favourite show. I get a little tired of people thinking that the world revolves around Dallas, As the Net Turns, or Hill Street Blues. If they'd get out of their easy chair, take a look around them at what goes on, and do something about it, as opposed to living in a TV fantasy world, the world might not be in such sh*tty shape. I recently read a news item where a *13* year old went crazy trying to pull his parents out of an overturned car because *she thought the car was going to explode*!!! Now I have nothing wrong with her trying to get her parents out of the car, although my inclination would have been to call an ambulance squad and let them take care of it properly. She didn't get the idea that the car was going to explode from just out of the blue. Think about it, when was the last time you *didn't* see an overturned car explode on TV? But I guess people are just going to sit around and continue watching TV non-stop, just because it's there, and melted their brains into oblivion with fantasy, fiction, and comedy. A note to the poster of the inserted article above. I realize that I took that line out of context. Even so, I still disagree with the notion that we should let people watch what they want while ignoring important and historic events. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Banta {decvax!allegra!inhp4}!pucc-k!agz Alcohol Design and Application Corp. --- Serving people over 21 years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I got a little black book with my poems in, Got a bag for comb and my toothbrush in, Got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from. I've got wild staring eyes, And I'v got a strong urge to fly, But I've got nowhere to fly to ... "