Friday, December 12, 2008  Chewing gum for the eyes [updated]
Annie Fox is having a go at the box.  She’s sick of ads that are
too loud, too frequent and too aggressive.  She’s sick of
programmes between the ads that aren’t worth turning off the
mute button to watch.  And she’s welcoming RobiNZ to the "this
pisses me off" brigade with a post bagging every single New
Zealand quiz show because they’re all absolutely appalling.  One
could tentatively suggest she just watches less TV, couldn’t
one?  Television is just chewing gum for the eyes, and it sounds
like the chewing gum is more more indigestible now than ever
before.  UPDATE:  Speaking of the “this pisses me off” brigade,
Cactus Kate is seriously contemplating carrying a sealed dummy
for other people's howling children.  Makes sense.
Anonymous twr said...  What pisses me off is that every ad
break, at least one ad is some social engineering propaganda
that we've been forced to pay for. Don't smoke, don't drink,
don't drive fast/drunk/tired/round corne