Talk about your non-news items ... thank Buddha for MeTV!
What annoys me is the local severe weather warnings. A week or so ago we had a series of small storms here, and dozens of times a day the National Weather Service would scroll their alerts across the top of the screen, along with a VERY annoying alarm klaxon -
"ARRRRRRRRRR! ARRRRRRRRRRRR! ARRRRRRRRRRRR!"
Then the computer-synthesized voice came on, sounding like they were using a 1971 speech synthesizer ...
"THERE IS A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING FOR ... SULLIVAN COUNTY, MONROE COUNTY, SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY AND PIKE COUNTY ... FROM 4:15PM TO 4:25PM ... "
Of course I don't LIVE in any of those counties ...
They would repeat this 3 or 4 times in a row, and ALWAYS during the
best parts of
The Honeymooners or
Bonanza, cutting off all soundtrack from the shows, and after a while I figured out that they NEVER, NOT ONCE ran these alerts during commercials.
REALLY?!?
So a storm won't do any damage for the 20 minutes out of every hour that commercials are running? Do you mean to tell me that you have a deal with those sponsors that you won't interrupt their paid-for advertising, even if a flood of Biblical proportions is rolling down the valley?
The more I see of TV the more I love my Internet.
