No News is Rooney’s News
With my occupation in documentary production, I watch many journalistic and documentary-style news magazine shows. A few of my favorite series are Dateline, 48 Hours Mystery, Primetime, and 60 Minutes. While each show has its ups and downs as far as interesting stories and topics, they always strive to present new information.
However, I cannot overlook the mind-numbing ramblings tacked on at the end of 60 Minutes any longer. Yes, Mr. Rooney I am referring to you. Now, don’t take this the wrong way, I admire his esteemed career in broadcasting a great deal. I understand that this is an editorial piece. But, over the past many weeks he has stolen those five-minute segments of my life that I will never again possess, and last night was the final straw.
During last night’s broadcast, April 20, 2008, he outlined his campaign for people to quit traveling because highways and airports are overcrowded, expensive, and never on-time. I was shocked. I never knew these problems existed, and personally have never encountered them. Is that the response he expected from Americans? Does he think the issues of long airport lines, miniature seats, high prices, and anticipated delays are new problems?
I think I might know where Andy Rooney came up with his idea for, “all travelers boycott flying for a week in order to get airlines to meet the demands of their customers.” He must have recently received that chain email we all get numerous times a year instructing us not to buy gasoline on X day this year. Brilliant, now we just have to decide on the week we’ll all boycott. Please let me know, as I’ll be sure to be traveling that week to take advantage of the amazingly empty planes and highways, and no, I won’t be setting my Tivo to record 60 Minutes that week.
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