Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Sunday, October 17, 2004


STERNO's too clever by HALF:

Only 11 percent of Americans get TV through rabbit ears.

And how many get over-the-air TV through cable? I'd wager it's a good deal more than 11 percent, for while the networks continue their free-fall, they still constitute about half the prime-time audience. And how many get their LOCAL NETWORK-AFFILIATE NEWS through cable? Around these here parts IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS slaughters the competition, and you can bet few of those blankly staring at that 90-minute police blotter have a funny-looking dipole atop their sets. 20 MILLION or more kneel to the THREE STOOGES OF NEWS, who somehow slither through thousands of miles of coaxial to tell people THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUTH. Let us not forget, CATV once stood for COMMUNITY ANTENNA TELEVISION. No, 11 percent of Americans may get TV through rabbit ears, but a good deal more get their TV from RABBIT-EAR BROADCASTERS.

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