Media Dystopia: January 2009

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Thank God it's over. (You're next, Harper.) On this, your last day in office, George W. Bush, I'm listening to Gowan's "A Criminal Mind," a song that I will forever associate with you and the eight years of [insert synonym for "stupidity" here, courtesy of Merriam-Webster: "brainlessness, denseness, density, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, fatuity, foolishness, mindlessness, oafishness, obtuseness, senselessness, simpleness, slowness, stupidness, vacuity, witlessness"; and let's not forget related words: "absurdity, asininity, balminess, craziness, daftness, folly, idiocy, inanity, insanity, lunacy, madness, nonsensicalness, nuttiness, preposterousness, silliness, simplicity, wackiness, zaniness; fallacy, irrationality, unreasonableness"] you gave us. I think I speak for the majority of Canadians when I say good riddance to one hell of a bad president.

posted by media_dystopia @ 02:01 [ link | top | home ]

Saturday, January 10, 2009

CTV can kiss my ass, too. The network purchased the Canadian rights to the NFL playoffs, and if today's two HD simulcasts are any indication, viewers are going to be subjected to same old (read: Canadian) commercials and promos ad nauseam -- literally; I've seen the CSI: Miami promo so many times today I want to throw up -- for the remainder of the postseason, including the Super Bowl. (Yes, CTV, that's "Super Bowl" -- two words, not the one-word abomination you've been splashing on the screen at every opportunity. Idiots.) For a while there, the Canadian HD stations hadn't caught up to their American counterparts, creating the loophole that allowed us to enjoy the multi-million-dollar Super Bowl ads in their full glory. Now that they have caught up, we're back to having advertising leftovers shoved down our throats. Well, I have a word -- initialism, to be precise -- for CTV and its advertisers: DVR. From now on, I'm delaying my football viewing long enough to fast-forward through the commercial breaks; I'm done being shown the same tired and tiresome ads over and over...and over.

posted by media_dystopia @ 21:21 [ link | top | home ]