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Jan. 15th, 2008 12:10 pmTime for some Audience Participation, via ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ajaylovesit, aka My Little Sister.
I'd really like to hear what you have to say about her entry today:
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ajaylovesit, aka My Little Sister.I'd really like to hear what you have to say about her entry today:
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Inspired by an article in the New York Times, my inane thoughts of the day involve the current drama inspired by our political election; Days of our Lives, starring Hilary, Obama, Mitt, John, and Rudy.
Does this correlate in any way to our current dearth of programming from the writer’s strike? Our need for salacious gossip is currently being quenched via these presidential debates, snippets, overly pompous commercials, and twists in the plot. All of this is being supplied courtesy of Anderson Cooper, not Patrick Dempsey of Grey’s Anatomy.
The candidates seem more humanized in this race than ever before, at least to me. Their human qualities on display en masse (see: Hilary’s outburst before New Hampshire, Romney stays fit by eating granola for breakfast every day) have morphed these obtuse characters into relatable and flawed future leaders. Has this humanization has sparked our interest in their race? Record and unprecedented turnouts in early caucuses show the veritable political maelstrom that we are creating! By stripping the American public of their right to Desperate Housewives, is it possible that we have turned our Desperate Attention to our own country?
Not to denigrate the entertainment and relaxation value of typical network programming, but I have been wholly enjoying the reprieve from typical programming for the more atypical coverage of the race. Is the writer’s strike such a drag, now?
Citation:
"Where the votes are, So are all those calories"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/us/pol
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My additional question?
Would you say you find yourself watching more about politics right now than you would if "real" television were on? For example, are you watching CNN or MSNBC or C-SPAN or network politics shows and so on more often than you would if 24 or E.R. were on?
DISCUSS.
As always with such topics, comments that degrade into name-calling and or tit-for-tat arguments/complaints will be frozen or deleted.
"Where the votes are, So are all those calories"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/us/pol
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My additional question?
Would you say you find yourself watching more about politics right now than you would if "real" television were on? For example, are you watching CNN or MSNBC or C-SPAN or network politics shows and so on more often than you would if 24 or E.R. were on?
DISCUSS.
As always with such topics, comments that degrade into name-calling and or tit-for-tat arguments/complaints will be frozen or deleted.
