Comments on: Voices of God

By: Basket of Kisses | Bad Reception

Basket of Kisses | Bad Reception — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:48:11 +0000

[...] B. Cooper points out in “Voices of God,”Â The Grown-ups makes extensive use of archival news footage. Cumulatively, this footage [...]

By: PR

PR — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:21:20 +0000

" Journalism is alive and well on Comedy Central."

The Jon Stewart reference reminded me of this comment I read on a blog about the overwheling amount of fake news.

If it weren't for John Stewart, I wouldn't know what is true and what isn't. How sad.

By: Meowser

Meowser — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:44:44 +0000

While I'm no good-old-days person by a longshot, I do remember — and miss — when (male) newscasters were chosen for their abilities as newsmen, rather than for looks first and we'll dub in the talent later. (Women — on rare occasions we got to see them do news — were always chosen for looks first, although the standards for "good looks" have tightened drastically since the 1960s.) Great analysis.

By: Fnarf

Fnarf — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:58:36 +0000

If only you could kill them. The undead, spammers are.

By: Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:38:26 +0000

Fnarf, thanks. They looked like spam but they also looked like real comments, so I left them but removed the links. I'll kill 'em.

By: JoanvsJane

JoanvsJane — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:26:25 +0000

@8 B.Cooper- LOL! Save me a seat! Up next is Springer!

@ 29 RetoGirl- Totally agree! Love JS, btw. It amazes me the people that discount his satirical look at our political system, yet swear by the "gems" Beck, Rush, and Hannity put out there and claim it as the "truth."

By: Fnarf

Fnarf — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:03:44 +0000

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By: Fnarf

Fnarf — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:00:30 +0000

Something funny's going on in the comments here. The comments above by "aion gold" and "red war gold" are just copies of other comments by other commenters. Are these real commenters, or are they testing their spam program or something?

By: RetroGirl

RetroGirl — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:36:28 +0000

@ 28 Dark Peggy-Jon Stewart finds it scary as well. He's said, and I'm paraphrasing, that what he does is comedy. He admits his show is satire. I've heard him say, unless you read the news, you're not going to get half the jokes. Jon Stewart reminds me of a class clown who somehow became class president. He didn't want the job, he didn't campaign for the job, but somehow he got it.

By: Dark Peggy

Dark Peggy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:55:05 +0000

Great post, interesting comments. I did really enjoy seeing the actual news footage in the background. This all happened 10 years before my birth but at a young age I latched on to Kennedy and the assasination so it was good to see the MM perspective on it, especially after the watching the excellent History Channel Doc recently that did the 24 hours after (and a little bit before) JFK was assasinated. What a different era. It is also interesting that Walter Cronkite shared many of the sentiments expressed here about how bad the network news has become and it is scary that Jon Stewart was recently rated as o ne of the most honest "newspeople" around and he is a COMEDIAN. Thank God for NPR and the BBC.