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Addendum Issue# 1 - 13th February 2002
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Welcome to Addendum.
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Contents.
1. Introduction
2. Channel Ten and how it is becoming nothing more than a vessel for
advertising.
3. What we laughably call the News
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1. Introduction
Addendum: (say a-DEN-dum) noun. Plural is addenda. Anything added, such as
an appendix, to a book
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life do not get to read this, its only for people who i don't know and for
people who won't take it all the wrong way.
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or have proper grammar or that they will have the right words in them, ie
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i send them out and read through them once to make sure they make sense
but thats about it.
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i get bored of it and stop doing it.
2. Channel Ten and how it is becoming nothing more than a vessel for
advertising.
Channel Ten, the main free-to-air channel here in Australia, is becoming
nothing more than a vessel for advertising.
Let me compare it here to an English TV station, I used to watch I won't
compare it to BBC1 and BBC2, (British Broadcasting Cooperation) that
incidentally deliver top of the range programs like neighbors, star trek,
red dwarf, young ones, black adder, Seinfeld, bottom etc etc with NO
Advertising let me just say that again NO Advertising whatsoever. Because
it would just be unfair to compare it with a station that has no advertising.
I am going to compare it with ITV and Channel 4 the channels that do have
advertising. On these channels during a average "Frasier" episode you would
have only 1 brake in the middle and that's it.
Here in Australia You would have four breaks, a "this program is brought to
you by [insert greedy company here]" on both ends of the show and adverts
scrolling happily along the bottom of the screen for other programs that
you have no interest in whatsoever. I have to be fair though, it's not just
channel; ten that does this. Its Nine and Seven as well and even SBS to
some extent. I find my self watching ABC even though usually nothing good
is on just for the pleasure of watching something without breaks. This is
really getting out of hand. Even though this plea will fall on deaf ears,
i feel i must write this to show that i do not agree with it.
3. What we laughably call the News
The news is so much bullshit. Why would anyone want to watch it? its like a
animated version of the tabloids, spreading roomer and hysteria, it is totally
over sensationalized, just for higher ratings watching it is like watching a
cheap ass drama with little or no plot.
To add on top of that it is totally biased as well, for instance a little while
ago they got hold of some training videos that the US had released (had to go
through "special" channels no doubt to make sure it showed Osama Binladan in
the worst light possible) the headline was "Chilling training videos from the
Osama training camps" That got me going, chilling hey? firstly it is all only
released to make them look as evil and bad as possible and secondly they should
have a look at the US training videos and see how "Chilling" they are.
Interesting fact; the US navy seals are trained to slit a neck in such a way
that they start at one ear and do not stop cutting until the other ear has been
reached. How chilling is that, but that's ok of course because they are
protecting us from the dangerous terrorists. It doesn't matter that the US brought
this all on themselves....
But I'm getting off track. Another thing about the news is that if you watched
it you could be forgiven for thinking that the only interesting things happen
here in Australia and that the rest of the world does not have anything
interesting happening in it. The only time they show anything from any other
part of the world is when something so big happens that you cannot ignore it,
like the September 11th disaster. other than that its all mostly local news.
That's it, until next time so long.
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Addendum Issue# 1 - 13th February 2002
(C) Steak February 2002
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