Posted 12:35 AM by Gene

As He and the Dolans tighten the noose around Their subscribers SLIME boasts of all the "original" programs He and the rest of the biz offer on basic cable. 1,462 PROGRAMS!!!!! may sound impressive to Amy but divide that by 52 and you have enough programs for one broadcast network -- and that includes a LOT of reality shows, whatever that talk of "CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED." And speaking of under-informed (we expect news hacks to be WELL-INFORMED?!?): "A season is likely to be 12 or 13 episodes long, not an EXHAUSTING!!!!! 22 weeks." (Exhausting overemphasis added.) Which aside from unintentionally noting most basic-cable shows are audience cheaters ignores that the broadcast networks once ran 39-week seasons -- followed by 13-week summer replacements. And let us remember many of these shows are not additive to the grand TV total -- they're subtractive. Even our pliable Amy admits, "The cable networks themselves usually don't reap...multimillion-dollar syndication deals, because their shows are worn out by the time they're ready. Cable plays them over and over again, unlike the networks, which often only air them twice." We repeat: We highly doubt the combined broadcast and cable networks put out more than the three networks did in, say, 1955 -- or in the golden age of radio.

SLIME, if You're going to run such half-witted stuff as this couldn't You put the JOURNALS behind a wall the way You did the TIMES -- completely, utterly and impenetrably?

(Via the annoying AHTSJournal)