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Clooney sez TV's been dumbed down. (He said 'down.' Huh huh.)
TV actor turned film director ... turned foreign policy expert... George Clooney slammed what he called the dumbing down of U.S. television Monday, saying it was dangerous that people's misery had become a source of entertainment. Clooney, 41, who said he grew up on a TV set working the autocue for his father's game shows, said the dumbing down had also affected news coverage in the United States. "We have decided that news is entertainment. It's hard to find good news," he said. Guess he doesn't read Rantburg, does he? TeeVee's been getting "dumbed down" since it started. Uncle Miltie in drag was hardly what y'd call "intellectual fare." Red Skelton doing Gertrude and Heathcliff the seagulls was funny â but you couldn't get much dumber. Mister Ed was downright dopey, Wilburrr. The years Marshall McLuhan called "The Vast Wasteland" are the very years we now call the Golden Age of Terriblevision. And let us not forget that it'd be difficult to get much dumber than "My Mother the Car" and its evil offspring "Knight Rider" â which aren't really recent... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-02-10 |
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