Gonzo Letters: Make News TV Celebrity Free

Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 07:29:48 PM PST

From: XXXXXXX XXXX (XXXXXXXXXX@hotmail.com)
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 5:09:47 AM
To: letters@msnbc.com
Subject: Celebrity Free News TV

To the good folks at the MSNBC,

Can somebody (anybody) explain to me why a smart fella with such a smart show like Olbermann and his ‘Countdown’ has to routinely devote his Number One Story to infotainment news crap? I betcha it drives him crazy. Prob’ly makes him puke in his mouth every time he has to mention the latest round of excruciating minutia involving Paris Lohan driving drunk or Britney Hilton chuggin’ dick. At least, I hope that’s the case. Any chance you cats can get rid of the infotainment crap and keep Olbermann focused with his generally lazer-like intensity on the politics, universal deception and other affairs of state and global importance?
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From: XXXXXXX XXXX (XXXXXXXXXX@hotmail.com) Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 5:09:47 AM To: letters@msnbc.com Subject: Celebrity Free News TV To the good folks at the MSNBC, Can somebody (anybody) explain to me why a smart fella with such a smart show like Olbermann and his ‘Countdown’ has to routinely devote his Number One Story to infotainment news crap? I betcha it drives him crazy. Prob’ly makes him puke in his mouth every time he has to mention the latest round of excruciating minutia involving Paris Lohan driving drunk or Britney Hilton chuggin’ dick. At least, I hope that’s the case. Any chance you cats can get rid of the infotainment crap and keep Olbermann focused with his generally lazer-like intensity on the politics, universal deception and other affairs of state and global importance?

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Point is that there’s a market for it. People want it desperately and what intellectuals remain alive and awake desperately yearn for intellectual discourse on what really matters, considering Olbermann and the Countdown nothing less than a beacon of Truth in a time of near omnipresent bullshit. What a disappointment for this beacon to be so brutally yet routinely extinguished at the end of each hour with the latest non-update on what some beautiful idiot did to get him/herself in trouble this week. I can't believe that people still care. Do they? Even now?

Britney’s latest round of weirdness serves the point only too well. It works out like this: if she’s genuinely sick then this necessarily makes the ongoing coverage of what is obviously some kind of mental illness genuinely sicker and the People, for following it but probably pretending to others that they’re not, sicker yet. If she’s not sick and just doing fuck-up cartwheels for camera attention then it works out the same way. She’s sick, the press is sick and so are the People.

See also: depraved, see also: pathetic, see also: ghoulish

Look, I understand ratings but does this kind of lame shlock help Keith and MSNBC or hold you back? You have an opportunity here. Press forward, not back. Do something worthwhile. Celebrity shlock is part of the problem and somewhere inside your collective heart of hearts y'all know this. So gimmee the Real Story, fellas.

In the fervent hope you'll make my news t.v. celebrity-free,

-iSenseChange, DailyKos blogger and eminent sage

p.s. the comedians, to a man, are hideously unfunny to the point of embarrassment for all involved, viewer most definitely included.