When Duct Tape is Needed for TV Personalities

I may not be the first, and certainly not the last to complain that there are too many televisi9on n3etworks. And having to fill up their daily schedule, they jump on every mealy-mouthed "expert" they can come up with to pontificate on matters that only trailer trash really care about. Many of us senior citizens, not as agile as we once were, are turning into the sort of couch potato who believes that creativity is being selective about when to turn on the TV and what channels to watch. Many of us who now are bound by satellite dishes can no longer get the city channels, so local broadcasting is out for us. So, if we don't feel like reading or noshing, on gores the TV, and we are enthralled by the likes of Nancy Grace and Dr. Drew Pinsky commiserating about the sad state of affairs with missing children and drunken TV stars.

Who are these awful people who invade our homes on the plasma screens? Yes, those of us with a talent for trash can turn the channels, but what about the tens of thousands who sit, rapt to the "wisdom" of these purveyors of dime store psychology and internet-college wisdom. These people truly believe that what they are seeing and hearing is medically and psychologically the "truth." These are the fallible folks who see that paying tens of thousands of dollars to charlatans like the Pinskys of our world makes cures possible. It is their TV version of Lourdes. Instead of St. Bernadette we have Saint Drew and Sister Nancy and Mother Laura Schlesinger. We have HNN now to show us that the world sucks in half-hour segments, most of the minutes devoted to trailers for upcoming searches for the missing or chastising the found.

OK, you may ask, what does this have to do withTV Viewers? Soooooo glad you asked: There are a lot of creative people, not necessarily famous and highly-paid ones, living within our borders. So, why don't we get together and form an anti-network network. Let's show up these rear-end carbuncles who are making millions with their trumped-up advice and suggestions and "breaking" news. (I've always wondered why, when news "breaks" don't they put a cast on it to heal). It's time for some of us who still have a few ounces of creative juices flowing, to antagonize these distributors of phony theories and "healing". Let's satirize these "healers" and denounce them as no better than Bernie Madoff in their haste for making millions from the unwary, naïve and needy/greedy. Maybe someone like Dame Edna, named Grace Minsky, might serve as spokesperson. Or maybe not. (After all, Nancy Drew is already taken). Just a thought. I want to send these people scurrying, embarrassed and ashamed, into the cold night and OFF the mass media!