Ever wonder what it would be if none of the drivel being shown on television in the form of news casts, weather updates or traffic was beamed without a person being employed to read this stuff?
Its called Radio.
So it was one fine day when some marketeer came up with the idea to dress these dolts up and put a tie or skirt on them and show them to the viewers. Then there were viewers. Thus was born Television.
Not just everyday yokels but people who thought that watching these highly paid readers (with poor grammar and diction) was also entertaining. To the point that their hiring and firing and salaries and other trivia have itself become headline news.
Same with the actors in Hollywood. I mean how is what these people do, their sexual preference, their family history or their alcoholic dependencies a matter of national debate?
Does this sound like something a first world country should be doing?
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
If you can get news cheap, or get cheap news, get it. If not, create it, seems to be the motto.
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