tube fanatic Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 No further commentary is necessary...... Maynard https://youtu.be/MRuS3dxKK9U 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fido Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 1 hour ago, tube fanatic said: No further commentary is necessary...... Maynard https://youtu.be/MRuS3dxKK9U Best post in the history of this Forum 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audible Nectar Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 "There is only IBM, ITT, ATT, DuPont, Dow, and Exxon - those ARE the nations of the world today." - Arthur Jensen, CEO, from the 1976 film "Network", which I've seen a few times (see avatar) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 As usual Maynard, RIGHT on target Well done sir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audible Nectar Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 "We're in the boredom killing business..." Howard Beale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Traveler Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 3 hours ago, tube fanatic said: No further commentary is necessary...... Maynard https://youtu.be/MRuS3dxKK9U Yep. Don't wanna go back to those times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tube fanatic Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share Posted May 23, 2021 31 minutes ago, Zen Traveler said: Yep. Don't wanna go back to those times. Zen, we ARE in those times to an even greater degree! Maynard 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Traveler Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Just now, tube fanatic said: Zen, we ARE in those times to an even greater degree! Maynard Only if you choose to be... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richieb Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Gotta get in before the lock - and the keys are thrown away. ”only if you choose to be”. That there is brilliant. One doesn’t necessarily choose the dung he’s walking in - he only knows he’s walking in it and it stinks — Proverbs RB 5.23.21 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Traveler Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 36 minutes ago, richieb said: ”only if you choose to be”. That there is brilliant. Thank you. 36 minutes ago, richieb said: One doesn’t necessarily choose the dung he’s walking in - he only knows he’s walking in it and it stinks — Sure. Otoh, if you are only focusing on dung then you miss the value of having a cow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richieb Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 36 minutes ago, Zen Traveler said: Thank you. Sure. Otoh, if you are only focusing on dung then you miss the value of having a cow... I’m looking at a herd of 40 as I type — 🐄 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Chayefsky ---the Genious - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Traveler Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Imo, not very many things are the same insofar as media is concerned when so many people derive their opinion from social media--In 2016 it was reported that close to 50% of Americans got their "news" from there and shared misinformation with like-minded folks... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audible Nectar Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 If one watches the "Director's commentary" version of the film, where Sidney Lumet discusses what he and Paddy were thinking and intending when the film was made, as the film plays, scene by scene, there would be a whole lotta people who would never use this as an example method to make their particular "points". Diana Christensen's "News Hour" was Paddy's foretelling of the "tabloidification" of news, with soothsayers, angle grinders, and other charlatans.....back during a day when news existed for public service instead of profit (most news stuff were loss leaders done for the purpose of public service). When one of the networks (ABC I think) was looked at for purchase by a larger corporation Paddy said "Oh, no, this is our undoing". Paddy saw the future. "We'll tell you any ---- you want to hear." - Howard Beale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 A primal scream into the wilderness. From the wilderness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezin' Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 6 hours ago, Zen Traveler said: Only if you choose to be... One doesn't get to choose the path...............only how he walks it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 3 hours ago, Audible Nectar said: If one watches the "Director's commentary" version of the film, where Sidney Lumet discusses what he and Paddy were thinking and intending when the film was made, as the film plays, scene by scene, there would be a whole lotta people who would never use this as an example method to make their particular "points". Diana Christensen's "News Hour" was Paddy's foretelling of the "tabloidification" of news, with soothsayers, angle grinders, and other charlatans.....back during a day when news existed for public service instead of profit (most news stuff were loss leaders done for the purpose of public service). When one of the networks (ABC I think) was looked at for purchase by a larger corporation Paddy said "Oh, no, this is our undoing". Paddy saw the future. "We'll tell you any ---- you want to hear." - Howard Beale Broadcast licenses were awarded and continued on the basis of complying with a certain amount of "public service," as an FCC requirement. Calling them a "loss leader" is not very accurate in a business sense of the word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 41 minutes ago, geezin' said: One doesn't get to choose the path...............only how he walks it. "If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezin' Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 19 minutes ago, oldtimer said: "If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice" Walking the path quietly is a choice............is it not? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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