[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'178409\' date=\'Feb 21 2008, 12:50 AM\']
I don't understand: It doesn't take that many synapses to understand that GSN is a business, and not a charity channel for the game show fans. And yet we get people who say "GSN should do this," "why do they constantly run the same old stuff," and the thing that really frosts my birthday cake, "rerun-abuse."[/quote]
Truth. I mean, yeah, I may bitch and you may bitch about certain things they have run or don't have-maybe not to the degree gslover does, but you know what? We (and probably most of the others here) have enough sense in our heads to know that GSN isn't going to bend to our whims and to demand that they do so is pointless. (Besides, I think we know what would happen if any one of us was put in charge of programming there...pure, unadulterated anarchy.
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It comes back to an old saying that I think applies here: IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU'RE WATCHING, CHANGE THE CHANNEL. And maybe even further I can add another point: a major outlet, whether it be television network or newspaper, is not going to care what one person thinks. (Re: a discussion I had with someone over high school football coverage in New Jersey. They said to me that they would try to organize a boycott of the paper being criticized. I said that they wouldn't care- it wouldn't make enough of a dent in their readership to matter. When the guy countered with 'if enough do it, they might take notice,' I said, "if you're only buying the paper for the high school sports coverage then you seriously need to consider why you're buying the paper in the first place." I also brought up the fact that the paper has one of the largest circulations in the country-15th in 2006, I couldn't find any more current data- and he shut right up.)
I have two guesses: either we're being tweaked by someone who really knows better, but thinks it's fun to watch us react to his pitching a hissy, or more likely, it's some youngster still living at home, who is used to Mommy giving him whatever he wants with the bat of an eyelash, and the notion of the 'real' world is foreign to him. Which is too bad, unless he already has "Would you like fries with that?" memorized.
I would use a word that rhymes with "Dole," but I don't think that it really applies. I'd lean more towards the former, to tell you the truth.
[quote name=\'gameshowlover87\' post=\'178295\' date=\'Feb 19 2008, 10:43 PM\']I'd rather watch GSN than watch, listen, and read about today's bullcrap.
Seeing this, I think it's the latter. Someone who would complain about the state of GSN but STILL WATCH ALL THE SAME is showing the paragon of irrationality, and should be taken seriously at the same level as your average teenager.
To gameshowlover87, grow up. Read a newspaper. Go outside and interact with the world. You'll be better for it.
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Cheers, Travis. I wish I said it better the first time, but he obviously didn't get it and probably still won't.
gameshowlover87, there's a place for you. It's called the GSN Forums. Use them.
(BTW, David...appreciated the joke before, but my point still is the same. People talk about how the American public doesn't seem to care about what's going on in the world...it's not because they don't know, it's because they don't want to know. And they don't care.
And I think perhaps it's time to take this discussion in another direction because I don't think anything more can come from it that's good.)
