There's alway an agenda

Agendas aren't only on 24 hr cable news networks.

On Thursday morning, I wrote about how ABC's World News Now erroneously reported on the demise of 'Brangelina'. I sent an email to them about their error... actually, it was more about their @$$hatted research staff.

I never expect a email response, since ABC is a big outfit, but I most certainly expected WNN to make an on-air correction of some kind. They didn't, of course, but on Friday's show, they marched around the researcher for their Skinny segments because, apparently, he got another job within ABC. I weep for whatever department gets that lazy @$$hat.

I suppose my point of the whole post is that the attitude of the on-air talent dictates the tenor of their content, especially when it comes to entertainment news. Jeremy Hubbard and Vinita Nair are smug and condescending; therefore, the entertainment news that they read have to be base in order for them to wave around their smugness and condescension.

This is absolutely true with radio morning shows. For months, I've listened to their entertainment segments and noticed that if their stations' agenda is to provide clean entertainment to their listeners, they are usually the first radio stations to report the most salacious and inaccurate information about the Jolie-Pitts because the audience believes that their way of living is the only way to live. The truth, on the other hand, is secondary to the agenda (read:propaganda).

This extends to other entertainment areas as well. This morning, I listened to two movie reports on two separate radio stations; one was country and the other was pop/adult contemporary. Absent from their movie lineup was The Hangover. The Hangover opens wide this weekend. And yet, that Nia Vadolas whatzit movie, My Life in Ruins or whatever, opens pretty narrow and yet, both stations mentioned it at length. The Hangover is an R rated guy movie, sure, but you can do a clean synopsis of it on morning radio. And frankly, Todd Phillips, the director of The Hangover, has a consistent record of making movies that people want to see, therefore it makes sense to give listeners a heads up. Vadolas, on the other hand, doesn't have a consistent record - remember that drag queen movie with Toni Collette (?)? But she has Tom Hanks' backing and the ghost of My Big Fat Greek Wedding to see her through, despite the abysmal reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. As I've said before, critic reviews means dick to me, but propaganda does and radio stations implying that Land of the Lost and My Life in Ruins are the 'only' movies opening this weekend just reeks (BTW, Land of the Lost is getting shitty reviews too).

Just because a station works to be family-friendly and/or female-oriented doesn't excuse censorship, especially when it's so easy to be discreet if a specific topic is a bit ticklish. Adults can be tactful, especially when little ears are present. Morning radio can illustrate that beautifully. But no, they opt to treat their audiences, especially women, like little Nellys, lost in the woods, who needs a square-jaw to guide them out of danger.

And WTF, dudes... women like raunchy R-rated comedies too.

Grow up!!!!