What replaces Wall Street...???

[Alex]

At some point, perhaps it would be wise if American television focused on localized success stories rather than nationwide failure stories surrounding the stock market.

Gasp, this means they'll have to work for their stories rather than have the automatic autopilot feel good news stories about wall street "successes".

Probably the most evil time I've ever witnessed was the U.S. Media's fascination with Wall Street before 911. What a horrible time because the Wall Street stories of successes were hiding so many other parts of our lives, and they were LIES!

Perhaps other countries deserve retribution from U.S. because our Wall Street lies created false strength in our own corporations, and these corporation probably won big accounts all over the world as a result.

It's all about ratings all the time, will that ever change?

[SHATOUSHKA]

at some point, perhaps it would be best if
american television ceased to exist

[Alex]

Gosh, what if TV turned into a big radio box!

hmmm. I guess that would be like going blind.

[SHATOUSHKA]

i have no idea what you are talking about

[Alex]

I'm referring to the golden age of radio, when it was an event to listen to a show or some news event (albeit probably easier to couch the event to the agenda of the times).

You talked about banning TV, what if instead the picture transmission were removed and all you received was the audio?

[SHATOUSHKA]

for several months, i conducted that theory.

what i found is...
most of television is image based, and therefore,
it relies upon images to convey messages moreso
than the actual 'spoken' dialogue.

it simply wouldn't work.

on NPR, they still have the 'old' radio shows
(as i'm sure you know). that is, they have shows
similar in format to that age.
the storys and story tellings, the informationals,
as well as most others, are formatted KNOWING
they cannot rely upon visuals/images and the
content is much more interesting.

in my part of the world, saturdays were usually
the best days for catching good NPR... or any
weekday after 5pm.
on tuesdays and thursdays (i think its just one
day a week now) they would have the classic
masterpiece theater bit... and i would LOVE
to listen to those. i would usually prefer to
sit in my car in some remote place listening to
the stories and sound effects, carefully noting
the melodramatic acting.

what good stuff!!! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

[Alex]

I see your point but I don't concur.

In Hollywood, some casting agents, (I don't know how many or what percent), will close their eyes part of the time when an actor is auditioning.

The reason? They don't want to be fooled by a facial expression or the actors attractiveness. They simply want to hear the words to determine if they sound believeable.

As a result, many television shows would make for good radio.

[SHATOUSHKA]

name one