And so it goes
Rosie has left The View.
Whatever your opinion of Rosie O’Donnell was, (and she does seem to bring out extreme opinions - people either love or hate her) I find it so sad that the only program on all of television that allowed an all-woman panel to discuss politics and current events, will no longer be the same.
I don’t know what the plans are for The View in the future. I would like to think that the panel will continue to discuss political topics. The show was so much more exciting and fun to watch.
Any more, I can get celebrity gossip everywhere. Mainstream media and network news have lowered their standards to being little more than glorified versions of Entertainment Tonight. It was wonderful for a news junkie like myself, to find women discussing the war and the doings of our government.
Al Gore had it so right. Gore criticized the "trivialities and nonsense" of celebrity gossip in the media and called on people to focus instead on issues like Iraq and climate change. Gore, who is promoting his new book "The Assault on Reason," made the comments at a book signing in New York, where he was treated to a rock star reception by more than 1,300 cheering and screaming fans.
"What is it about our collective decision-making process that has led us to this state of affairs where we spend much more time in the public forum talking about -- or receiving information about -- Britney Spears shaving her head or Paris Hilton going to jail?” Gore asked.
He lamented what he described as the "destruction of the boundary between news and entertainment" and said the United States was "vulnerable as a democracy to mass and continuing distraction."
And now we have one less voice, one who had the courage to speak out.
Whatever your opinion of Rosie O’Donnell was, (and she does seem to bring out extreme opinions - people either love or hate her) I find it so sad that the only program on all of television that allowed an all-woman panel to discuss politics and current events, will no longer be the same.
I don’t know what the plans are for The View in the future. I would like to think that the panel will continue to discuss political topics. The show was so much more exciting and fun to watch.
Any more, I can get celebrity gossip everywhere. Mainstream media and network news have lowered their standards to being little more than glorified versions of Entertainment Tonight. It was wonderful for a news junkie like myself, to find women discussing the war and the doings of our government.
Al Gore had it so right. Gore criticized the "trivialities and nonsense" of celebrity gossip in the media and called on people to focus instead on issues like Iraq and climate change. Gore, who is promoting his new book "The Assault on Reason," made the comments at a book signing in New York, where he was treated to a rock star reception by more than 1,300 cheering and screaming fans.
"What is it about our collective decision-making process that has led us to this state of affairs where we spend much more time in the public forum talking about -- or receiving information about -- Britney Spears shaving her head or Paris Hilton going to jail?” Gore asked.
He lamented what he described as the "destruction of the boundary between news and entertainment" and said the United States was "vulnerable as a democracy to mass and continuing distraction."
And now we have one less voice, one who had the courage to speak out.
posted by Marti at 5:54 AM
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