The Hologlobe Press -- T.H.A.T. #240

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    For some time, editions of Television History and Trivia have had a special-announcement thing presented in this spot, and it was about a document that exists at the website for The Hologlobe Press called A COVID-19 Document that Shows the Rottenness of the CDC, Many in the Medical Community, Many in the Media, and All the Democrats, such as Gretchen Whitmer, Andrew Cuomo, and Joseph Biden, and the document can be reached by using this COVID-19 link, and now it is time to keep that document in mind but make this section--a commentary section now--cover an important topic related to communication. In the early 1970s, I was a student at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, and I was a member of WAYN-AM (the student radio station at the university), and when I was at the university, I regularly saw that black gal walking around on campus, and she was always dressed in African garb (which always included a head-wrap thing), and the woman was Geneva Smitherman, and this woman was always pushing to get "Black English" recognized as useful. I report "Black English" is crap! It was crap in the 1970s, as pushed by Geneva Smitherman, and it is crap today. On Monday, March 25, 2024, I was reminded of Geneva Smitherman and her nonsense through an article published in the Detroit Free Press called "MORE THAN WORDS" (which actually was presented with "WILL AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH BE EMBRACED IN THE CLASSROOM?" as something above the title proper). The article was presented on two pages--page one (1A) and page 11A. Hold it! There are rules that make any industry or art form work well or best. For example, when a guy is working on an car engine, he has to make passages for the flow of oil proper (such as at the bottoms of piston rods), or when the engine is running, it will wear down quickly or sooner. A carpenter and a dress maker have to do things right, or houses will fall apart easily or doors will not close properly, or dress seams will fall apart. Doctors have to do things right. That is enough of that. Writers have to follow rules. Over the decades, the ways of using English properly or best have been adopted, and they were not adopted to push "whiteness" or something related to race. Rules about making verbs agree in form with subjects, for example, have been adopted so that meanings can be passed along clearly, and the rules about pronouns have been adopted so that it is easily to determine to what thing a pronoun is tied. It is usually the people who are regarded as good in their fields who set rules about standards over the years, such as in English. For years, people who have wanted to be good writers of English might work to learn rules set down in a book called Modern American Usage (and in England, people might use Modern English Usage), and I have tried to follow the ways of Modern American Usage so that I can write things that make sense to a reader the first time that the reader sees something that I have written. Every day, a person--even one trying to follow the ways of Modern American Usage--can get corrupted a bit (at least momentarily) because of all the bad speakers and writers who are round today; for example, most of the announcers for football games--and that is especially true of the "commentary" guys who are black and are former players--often push out jackass sentences, such as those with wrong verb forms. "Black English" has illogic that can result in misunderstandings between writers and readers or speakers and listeners. A good writer, for example, tries to write something so that it can be understood the first time seen, or the good writer tries to write something so that a reader will not end up in one of those stall moments in which the reader wonders what the hell was meant. The article in the Detroit Free Press opened with--"Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she flunked a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. * The speech therapy class was largely made up of people of color, including Black students like Smitherman, who spoke in Black English, a language spoken by many Black people across the country. The teaching assistant leading the class quickly realized that neither Smitherman nor most of the other students had speech impairments the test screened for, such as stuttering. They spoke differently, pronouncing words contrary to standard American English and used different phrases. * Being placed in a speech class made Smitherman mad, but she was used to being underestimated...." That is enough of the crap and useless emotional filler, such as about her feelings being hurt. [Note: In the early 1970s, maybe in about 1973, I was sort of pushed into going to a free "writing clinic" at Wayne State University for a while so that I would be able to pass a writing-proficiency exam, and that clinic was in a building that was right south of Old Main.] The opening of the article worked to talk about "different phrases" and different speech pronunciations as the main things of Black English, and I note that "accent" should not be a discussion about "Black English," since "accent" is not related to verb use and proper sentence structure. Really, "Black English" comes down to problems with grammar and verb tense and the like. English is being used as an international language for many reasons, and if a person wishes to deal with people internationally, the person should use proper English so that miscommunications are kept to a minimum. By the way, Chinese is no great thing. Because of the trillions (I exaggerate) of symbols that were used and are used in writing Chinese, a Chinese person was never able to invent the typewriter, which was invented in the 1800s. The world would never have had the typewriter or the typewriter-based computer keyboard today, if it were not for people who had English (and related language styles) as a regular language, which has 26 characters, 10 numbers, and a few other symbols, which could be presented on a typewriter. Chinese will never be the international standard, and it will fade away, so Chinese and others will have to switch to standard English to do well in business, and the Chinese are not going to adopt the crap that "Black English" is. Most of the article in the Detroit Free Press was on page 11A, and well into page 11A, there was this material--"...Smitherman, now a distinguished professor emerita at Michigan State University, was tapped as an expert in the case. 'This failure of the teachers to recognize the language as legitimate and the corresponding negative attitudes toward the children's language led to negative expectations of the children which turned into self-fulfilling prophecies,' Smitherman wrote in 1981, reflecting on the case. 'One critical consequence was that the children were not being taught to read.'....". Bullshit! In Detroit, mostly it has been blacks who have been teaching black children for years, or mostly blacks have been working to teach black children to read English (of some type), and it has gone to crap, so the previous quoted material is jackass stuff.   Incidentally, on page 11A, there is a photograph of Dr. Geneva Smitherman from 1978. Late in the article, this material was presented--"African American English still isn't fully embraced in the classroom, scholars and advocates said, but Smitherman and others said they're optimistic that educators today are doing a better job of responding to students who speak the language. And research by dozens of linguistics scholars, many of whom are in Michigan, has contributed to understanding the nuances and particulars of the language, including its role in the classroom and reading instruction. Yolanda Holt, a professor in the department of communication sciences and disorders and sociolinguist at East Carolina University, said consciously involving community members in research around reading and language is crucial to understanding how educators can better teach students who speak African American English. 'All languages have value; if the child is able to communicate effectively, that's good,' she said. 'We want to use the language that they bring to school to engage them with literacy practices."...." The previous sentence from me shows the pseudo-intellectual nonsense in Yolanda Holt. For one, "all languages" do not have value. "Black English" does not have value in a country where English is the main language. Really, Dr. Geneva Smitherman and Jamesia Norman (a professor of English at Grand Valley State University who is shown in a photograph on page one) are pushing sloppiness as acceptable. A later part of the article in the Detroit Free Press was--"Jamesia Nordman, a professor of English at Grand Valley State University who has taught English Language Arts and English across different grade levels, said, like Spanish speakers, young African American speakers tend to oscillate between languages, from African American English to standard American English (SAE). Teachers should 'let them vacillate between AAE and SAE, and gradually teach them the SAE rules and mechanics and things like that. ...I think you teach them in conjunction with one another,' Nordman said.". The material from Nordman is nonsense! If the "Black English" crap is not put down in the early years of a child's life, it will get ingrained in the structure of the mind of the child, and the child will be hurt in the long run. It is like rap or gangster rap, which is filled with jackass English, which is being adopted by blacks and whites, especially children, and rap is hurting children. By the way, "texting" (with jackass forms of words and sentences) is a super-big problem. I would never hire a person with "Black English" skills, since the person would put together crap sentences and such that are avoided as best as possible at The Hologlobe Press. For one-hundred years, there has been broadcasting in the country--radio and later television--and that is has helped (at least in the first fifty years, when announcers had high standards of speech, such as to work at radio networks) to help make English communication workable all over the country [Note: I have heard it said over the years and decades that such places as France and China have various forms of French and Chinese that can result in people not understanding each other well all over the lands of the countries.]. Here was a big piece of crap in the article in the Detroit Free Press--"Beyond the mechanics of reading instruction, there's another dimension to understanding African American English in classrooms: embracing it and showing children that they should value their language, Nordman said. 'It is language, it's not slang, she said. 'We need to teach our kids that they're both valid and valuable.'....".   If a person values crap, then the person will not dispel the crap or give up the crap, and that is my response to the last quoted material. The next material in the article was--"Nordman didn't always feel like her first language, African American English, was seen as valuable as a student growing up in Detroit, and felt she was often made to feel ashamed for the way she spoke, constantly being corrected. In college at Eastern Michigan University, people always noted her 'accent' even though she was from Detroit, a 40-minute a drive to EMU's campus. 'It should have been really powerful if I had been able to come from a place of understanding,' she said. To foster inclusion and hone a passion for reading, school libraries, classroom bookshelves and required reading should include books that include African American English, Norman and others said.....". That theme from Jamesia Nordman is junk of the highest order, and it is more proof that universities are pushing idiocy and propaganda and emotional nonsense. Yes, it is black feminist crap, too, and the second-to-the-last paragraph was--"'African American English,' it's positive, it's not going anywhere,' she said. 'We want to encourage people to use a language that speaks to their soul.'". [Altavena, Lily. "MORE THAN WORDS." Detroit Free Press, 25 March 2024, pp. 1A and 11A.]

- - - T.H.A.T., Edition No. 240 - - -

    This edition of Television History and Trivia is not about television. That should make wonder what is going here. Well, this time, I have a special publication for you   This document is about "radiovison." Radivision was something new for the American public in the 1920s. That is fact. Radiovision was like television. When a radiovision entity was fired up--and it was the day and age of experimentation involving radio-type stations of sorts--two different frequencies were used to broadcast the combination of images and sound (things were synchronized in relation to two broadcast signals). One-hundred years ago, in the 1920s, when commercial radio was a new thing in the country, some people were talking about radiovision and seeing some radiovision programming. The term "radiovision" quickly became a passé term, and since at least the 1930s, people have described the broadcasting of images and sound as "television." But in relation to this document, pretend you are reading about "radiovision." Yes, you have another "radiovision" document from The Hologlobe Press.
    Let us go into something different. Recently, I have put together two documents--for in-house use--and one document shows the number of half-hour filmed entertainment series that were put on television networks or put in syndication in the 1940s and 1950s, and these shows are scripted fictional shows, such as cowboy shows, and the other document covers the shows of the 1960s. I can say that, when you look at the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, there were about 550 half-hour series on film. I will add to the list in the future, as I stumble upon more information, but it seems I have a worthwhile list, and many of the programs are yet seen on television stations or television networks or through streaming services today, and the shows will be seen for years and decades probably, since the shows are likable and fun, as a rule, and they are nice, too. While I was working on the list for the 1960s, I stumbled upon an article called "The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time", which was put on the Internet on December 20, 2023, by the company involved with Variety (the entertainment magazine or whatever). By the way, for several decades in the last century, I subscribed to Variety (the magazine) till I found it was going down hill. On January 18, 2024, I first saw the article (of December 20, 2023), and I skimmed it. Immediately, I deduced that the list was that which a person could determine came from the minds of liberals (communists and socialists and such), and many of the shows had the "liberal" feel, pushing feminism and freakiness, such as transvestite stuff. For example, one of the one-hundred shows was RuPaul's Drag Race. Are you going to tell me that RuPaul's Drag Race is one of the best shows to be aired between, for example, 1946 and 2024? In addition, one of the other best shows of all time is Top Chef (a cooking show that is still on the air or on cable actually). Are you going to tell me--given how many cooking shows there have been over the decades--Top Chef is the best cooking show? Top Chef is the only cooking show on the list. Well, writers at Variety think the shows are great. For the record, the writers of the article are--Daniel D'Addario, Kate Aurthur, Clayton Davis, Selome Hailu, Allison Herman, Emily Longeretta, Jennifer Maas, Joe Otterson, Michael Schneider, Jazz Tangcay, Aramide Tinubu, and Adam B. Vary. It seems very likely to me that the writers are relatively young and really have not done any worthwhile research about the history of television in the country. Incidentally, I have to wonder if "Aramide Tinubu" really grew up in the United States of America. Let me begin by noting some of the broadcast network shows that are on the list. The list has General Hospital (which, by the way, delved into gay stuff over the years), Roseanne (which is tied to gay stuff), Will & Grace (which had gay stuff), and In Living Color (which had gay stuff). Other shows of the list tied to Variety are Freaks & Geeks, Arrested Development, My So Called Life, and Twin Peaks, and the those shows sort of showed off freakiness. I found The Good Place and The Office to be unlikable shows, and yet they are on the list, and The Office inspired writers and producers in Hollywood to come up with similarly constructed--in tone--other shows in later years, which had no real fun in them and had freaky characters. Star Trek: The Next Generation is on the list, but Star Trek is not. The Jeffersons is on the list, but All in the Family is not on the list, and, maybe, that is because the writers of the article wanted to put in a black show before a white show. Oh, I do have to report that I am not thrilled with All in the Family, since it had too much yelling over the years and political crap, but a lot of people still watch it, such as through MeTV. The list has almost nothing from the 1940s or 1950s and, for the most part, 1960s. Columbo, which is on the list, began with two pilot movies in the 1960s, so it can be said that it is a 1960s show--sort of--and that is the only scripted show from the 1960s (sort of). The list tied to Variety has only one show from my list of roughly 550 half-hour series of years ago, and that show is "I love Lucy", but you will not find Gunsmoke and Perry Mason and other one-hour shows of from 1946 to 1970 on the list tied to Variety. Here is a list of some of the recent over-the-air shows of the list tied to Variety--Happy Days, The Cosby Show (the star of which turned out to be a crappy person), The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, The Muppet Show, NYPD Blue, Dallas, The X-Files, Hill Street Blues, Friends, and 30 Rock. PBS has one show on the list--The Civil War. The list has The Oprah Winfrey Show on it, and since it was only a syndicated talk show (and not a scripted show or even a show during which people might perform, such as songs or comedy bits that could be seen on late-night talk shows), I feel it should not even be on the list; some people would probably put Donahue before The Oprah Winfrey Show. Now I jump over to the shows that were, in essence, cable offerings or steamed offerings. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (which pushed out liberal crap) is on the list. Oh, the broadcast network group has The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (which did not clearly push out political crap over the decades). The cable-like list has--The Good Fight (feminist crap), I May Destroy You (covering rape and black stuff), Girls (covering an unlikable liberal gal), Fleabag, Daria (a cartoon girl), BoJack Horseman, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (a black show), Orange is the New Black (a black show), Chappelle's Show (a black show), and The Real World (a show with some gay stuff). Are you going to tell me that these are some of the greatest shows of all time? Here are more shows (from broadcast or cable) that are on the list, and I present them just so you can see what is offered on the Variety list--Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (a black show) The Wonder Years, Living Single (a girlie show with blacks), Grey's Anatomy (a girlie show with gay stuff at times), The Gilmore Girls (a girlie show), Friday Night Lights, ER, The West Wing (a Democratic Party-type show), Sex and the City, Breaking Bad, The Leftovers, The Larry Sanders Show, South Park, Strange Things, Homeland, Atlanta, thirtysomething (a feministic show), and Scandal (a female-lead show). Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is on the list from Variety, and, boy, as I noted in a previous edition of Television History & Trivia, the first episode for the 2023-2024 season (shown in January 2024) was another depressing one-hour, pushed out in a middle of a three-hour block of depressing stuff on NBC-TV (which also included Law & Order and Law & Order: Organized Crime). Between 1946 and 1980, it was commonplace for the broadcast networks to present specials, such as 90-minute entertainment specials. The list tied to Variety has Playhouse 90, which was a series that offered up various types of specials over the years, and it was not like a show that had the same regulars and general premise each week. Some shows of Playhouse 90 are regarded as better than others are, though all were considered special. Why is Playhouse 90 on the list? Other longer-running shows, such as running 90 minutes, were on television years ago, and they had all different types of plays and such, and, for example, viewers years ago were given Max Liebman Presents, DuPont Show of the Month, and Hallmark Hall of Fame. There is no way a type of series like Playhouse 90 could be said to be overall better than other like productions. Okay, the guys and gals at Variety like the 100 shows, but, to me, the list shows that the crew is made up of liberals (socialists and communists and the like), given most of the stuff on the list was political in nature, showing off liberalism as good and freakiness as good and feminism as great. The list from Variety is a throwaway list, lacking diversity. If anything, the crew should have only provided their favorites from about 1970 to today, since they probably have no information about times before 1970, and maybe the start time should be 1990 for their list. Remember: I have grouped television into three main periods--(1) the good years (covering from about 1946 to the 1980s), (2) the transition period (covering the 1980s and 1990s, when more and more nice and fun television was disappearing), and (3) the current period (where it is easy to find ugly television shows, and the writers of the article probably mostly grew up in the ugly years). I can argue well that many of the newer shows--mostly cable-type shows--on the list tied to Variety are shows that people will not want to see for decades and decades to come because they have political crap or lack niceness and fun. Today, people still like The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show, The Amos 'n' Andy Show, Gilligan's Island, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., McCloud, Wagon Train, Monk, Matlock, Dragnet (version one and version two), Green Acres, The Jack Benny Program, Lost in Space, et cetera. And that is that! Oh, I should add that Jeopardy! is on the list from Variety, and Jeopardy! has evolved into a show for liberals who think they are elites because they can answer trivia questions, making it seem to themselves that they are smart. And the list from Variety has no Westerns, but it is commonplace for liberals to be against American history related to the West and Westerns and cowboys, so the list shows that the members of the writing crew are highly biased and not good historians or useful news people. Yes, a person's coming up with a list of the "greatest" 100 shows, especially if the person were no television historian, would be hard to do so that few people would be disappointed with the result, but the list from the Variety people shows too much the crew's lack of television knowledge and lack of work to look to really consider what took place from about 1946 to today. And I can argue well that the crew did not really do any research to see what shows were super-popular over the years and have had a long history of airplay and are still shown on television today. The list from Variety exposes bad journalists!
    Okay, let me look at some not-to-great television of the past. In 1966, ABC-TV aired a show called The Double Life of Henry Phyfe in prime time, and the series had Red Buttons playing Henry Phyfe, and the series was a sitcom. Yes, the series is on my list of half-hours on film in the 1960s. Recently, I noticed an episode of the show is on YouTube, listed as "The Double Life of Henry Phyfe The Reluctant Lover". If you get bored, you could look at it. It is not "ugly" television, but the episode is--what true television reviewers of years ago, maybe those working at Variety, might list it as--a little flat. A person can see why the series might not have lasted long, and it did not. But it is harmless television. And I make this note--Nancy Kovack (the blonde) played Chou-Chou, and I note that Nancy Kovack (of Flint, Michigan) really got started in acting in television shows and films nationally by winning a beauty contest (Miss TV Sweetheart) aired by CKLW-TV, Channel 9, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on April 20, 1956--at a time when the management of Channel 9 was concerned with pulling in Detroit-based viewers.
Announcement for the novice again (reworked in March 2019): To get useful television-delivered news or Internet-delivered news, try Breitbart News Network (the history of which goes back to 2007), WorldNetDaily.com, Newsmax TV (which was started up in 2014), CNS News (which is on the Internet and which was launched on June 16, 1998), and One America News Network (a.k.a. OAN), since the entities do not blindly support Barack Obama-type people (communists, socialists, progressives, liberals, and Shariaists), as do CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV (Note: To learn about bad journalism, you might tune in to CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV from time to time to see how they differ from the better places mentioned). I note that the Fox News Channel is evolving into a rotten channel, becoming like those that I have put down in this paragraph. If you are unclear of my intentions, I say in different words that you should boycott CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV and even now much of what is on the Fox News Channel and hope they lose more ratings and advertising revenues, since they are expendable, and it is time for you to find the guts to be mean and heartless and cancel them--since they are hurting you. In 2019, "The Drudge Report" was sold, and it should be treated as suspect for now.   [Note: Everyone in the Democratic Party in the country is rotten, and the Republican Party establishment has shown itself to be socialistic and communistic within the last few years, and only a few of the rotten people tied to the Republican Party are U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie.]
    [Note: Here is an example of Chris Christie's rottenness. On Sunday, February 6, 2022, Chris Christie was a guest on This Week with George Stephanopoulos (of ABC-TV), which had Martha Raddatz as the host, and Christ Christie pushed out crap. For example, Chris Christie said--"...And let's face it. Let's call it what it is. January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump...an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week--overturn the election. And he's trying to do a cleanup on aisle one here...." and "...He actually told the truth by accident. He wanted the election to be overturned....". That is bullshit!]
    I do not live in California, and I have never been in California, and I will never go to California, because the general mind-set in California is rotten, since it is a socialistic and communistic state, and that means I know little about local television of California, especially about what is broadcast as local news (though, in this day and age, I could watch streamed newscasts). The local newscasts probably reported--happily--the idea of a news story called "California is putting up minimum wages to $20 an hour for fast-food chains -- and it's likely going to drive up wages in other industries, too" [gdean. "California is putting up minimum wages to $20 an hour for fast-food chains -- and it's likely going to drive up wages in other industries, too". Business Insider, 8 March 2024.]. Look at a portion of the story--the themes of which probably were broadcast in television newscasts in California--and look at the defective logic--"...California is raising the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 an hour -- and a much wider group of employees could see bigger paychecks. From April 1, limited-service restaurant chains that have at least 60 restaurants nationally will be required to pay workers in California at least $20 an hour -- 25% higher than the state's general minimum wage of $16 a hour, though some cities and counties have higher minimums. These wages will make the fast-food industry more attractive to workers -- and will likely prompt other employers to bump up their pay to compete for labor....".
    Will the rise in pay result in "other industries" increasing their wages paid? No! Basically, other industries have skilled labor, which require more learning (over time). Other industries do not compete for people with flipping-hamburger skills (entry-level skills for business).
    What will the rise in labor cost result in (in California)? Companies will have to raise the prices of food and stuff to cover increased costs. And some customers will begin to avoid the businesses.
    What might some companies do? Some will shut down restaurants or cut the numbers of employees, since they will not run restaurants on a system in which no profit is made. They will not run restaurants--and I use an old television term--"sustainers" (in which the businesses will keep a losing operation afloat with the profits from other states).
    What might some companies do? They could make sure their companies have less than 60 restaurants in the country. I guess it is possible that the owner of a company could make sure the owner has less than 60 restaurants of a particular thing, and then the owner could start a completely new business with restaurants (new name and new product lines), and the two entities would be completely different operations--having no ties whatsoever (as can happen with things under an umbrella company, involving subsidiaries).
    In a way, the government in California is showing the true nature of the government--hard-line communistic. It is working to set the rules of business for businesses in other states or based in other states. That is highly rotten!
    Look at this piece--"...fast-food industry more attractive to workers....". Are you going to tell me that skilled people are now going to give up their careers to be hamburger flippers for the remainder of their lives (boring stuff) and gain no more types of job skills or complex job skills, which really will result in better pay in the long run?
    Why is the government of California working purposely to hurt one particular type of industry or restaurant--nationally known restaurants? The government is anti-big-business or anti-business! That is the way of socialism and communism and liberalism and progressivism (enslavism)--government decides what businesses get to exist and not exist and how businesses get to operate. Maybe, the government of California is working on that nutty environmental premise, in which nutty people want to get rid of cows, which produce methane, which--they say--is killing the planet and causing global warming. It is bullshit! If they shut down places to get hamburgers and such, they can say that they are saving the planet.
    What else could the government be working to accomplish? It looks as if the government is trying to get illegal immigrants (basically stupid people from stupid societies, such as communistic countries of South America) into higher paying jobs at the expense of the operators of businesses so that the government can get more illegal immigrants to come to the country, which could take away more jobs from unskilled citizens (such as people of high-school age entering the business world for the first time).
    In the end, government people are screwing around with economic things and the economy, and the rotten television news people in California probably are going along with the idiocy being done by the government of California and have showed no reasons why the new idea is rotten.
    Announcement: Recently, I have added some new documents to the collection of my documents at the website for The Hologlobe Press. One of the documents is entitled A Document that Dispels Myths and Nonsense of Science-Fiction Books, Movies, and Television Shows (A Logic Puzzle), which can be reached through this Myths link. Another document is And So You Think You're Going to the Moon, Mars, or the Stars..., which can be reached by using this Moon link. And yet another of the documents is entitled And the Stupid Women Shall Lead--and Lead Every Good Individual into Shit, Driven on by Communism, Feminism, and Defective Female Beliefs and Little-Girl Thinking, which can be reached through this Stupid Women link. And here are other documents--A Review of What Television Controlled by Socialists and Communists Worked to Sell as Truth in Relation to the U.S. President Donald J. Trump Impeachment (at Impeachment) and T.H.A.T. Special Edition--The First Helicopter-based Traffic Reporters on Radio for the Detroit area of Michigan (at Helicopter Traffic).
    On Sunday, March 10, 2024, another Academy Awards show took place, and, this time, Jimmy Kimmel was the host. As usual, the event was used to push political crap--socialism and communism. Leading the way early in the program was Jimmy Kimmel, who said--"...Emma [Stone], you are so unbelievably great in Poor Things. Emma played an adult woman with the brain of a child, like the lady who gave the rebutted to the State of the Union on Thursday night....". Jimmy Kimmel failed to mention that the State of the Union had been filled with crap.
    Here is an additional look at the broadcast network television season, which was first covered in the previous edition of Television History and Trivia. On Thursday March 14, 2024, ABC-TV pushed out the first episodes of the new season for three television series--9-1-1, Grey's Anatomy, and Station 19. The first show for 9-1-1 began with a military jet crashing into a house of a married couple. The tone of the married couple, as pushed forth by the makers of the episode, was way over the top, and, in fact, it was ugly television since it was over the top. The married couple was continually fighting (after thirty years of marriage of so). Oh, well! But the whole thing--scenes--came off as hokey. At the end of the episode, a young boy came off as another jackass kid on television, who should have been spanked years ago. Grey's Anatomy is more socialistic/feministic crap. Two big things happened in the first episode of Station 19, and the story not only had two gays kissing but also two lesbian gals kissing, so it covered almost all the bases--what was missing was a scene with two transexuals kissing. Over all, the presentations by ABC-TV came off as throw-uip television. By the way, NBC-TV pushed out the new season of Password on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at 10:00 p.m., and it was more gutter-toned game-show stuff, featuring Keke Palmer (a freak).
    By the way, on March 29, 2024, Joseph Biden as the U.S. president declared that March 31, 2024 (already the Easter holiday), was to be seen as "Transgender Visibility Day," and to me, that showed more of Joseph Biden's rotten mind, working to put down Easter and put "transgender" crap in the forefront.
    On Sunday, March 17, 2024, at about 1:54 p.m., I was typing up cards with information from notes related to a television series that was broadcast on WWJ-TV, Channel 4, Detroit, from August 1952 to September 1954. At about 1:54 p.m., I had CBS-TV running on the television set before me, and the half-time guys for a college basketball broadcast began to run off the mouth (with mostly useless stuff). I was looking down at index cards and my Olympia SG-3 typewriter, and all of a sudden, I heard a guy (one of the four) push out--"Hell, no!". Fifty years ago or so, when I started my work as a television historian, a television personality could not have gotten away with freely saying--"Hell, no!". Many of the sports people are crappy speakers and jackass-sounding today, and that is the way it is.
    I miss the channel (in Detroit) called "Television Drive-In," which showed, for instance, B-movies of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s--it was fun stuff to see, since it was not nasty or ugly television, which is becoming commonplace in this day and age of television history. Recently, the ovdr-the-air-broadcast universe in the Detroit has gotten worse. For example, the network known as "this" has morphed into something that looks like just another mediocre television station, carrying a lot of syndicated stuff that television stations have used and use. The network has dropped the movie-showing format. A few channels have gone dark. Now, the low-level "The 360" network is on two channels. Ugh! In essence, the subchannel or over-the-air-broadcast universe in Detroit is turning in to a more gutter-style universe, aiming at gutter culture (which is the aim of the main broadcast networks, as I have shown recently). On the weekend of March 30, 2024/March 31, 2024, I discovered Channel 50.5 finally got some programming and finally lost the SMPTE color bars, and the what is on the channel is the "Nosey" network. That weekend, every time I ended up on the Channel 50.5, the channel was carrying old episodes of The Jerry Springer Show, a truly gutter-style show that had been in syndication for many years. What a waste of air time is it! It is ugly television. In addition, too many of the same shows are showing up on networks, or some old shows are being used by more than one network, even though so many old shows (that are likable) yet exist somewhere in the country, and some of the shows are Wiseguy, Cold Case, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, The Carol Burnett Show, Sanford & Son, In the Heat of the Night, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show.... It is not that some of the shows are not good, but so, so many other watchable shows yet exist that could be used to have more "diversity" on television. It almost seems to me programmers and the suppliers are getting lazy or cheap. Then again, there could be too many ways in which to see television program, the subchannel universe is not making enough money to keep going. Yes, I wish a "Television Drive-In" were still around. I wish there was a channel that played half-hour fictional entertainment film series of the past [Note: Remember: I note that in the 1940s and 1950s, there were some 350 film series, and I say that they are all watchable today, and proof can be found on YouTube, where many exist today.]. The heyday of the modern made-for-television movie was from 1964 to about 1990, and there could be a channel that only plays movies from that period, and there were a lot. And the prime-time broadcast network stuff is mostly depressing and dark, and now the subchannel universe is following the style by carrying more and more of what brought down the broadcast networks. Maybe it is time for a Looking at the Movies segment.
    This edition of Television History and Trivia now presents the Looking at the Movies segment, and I am going to present a B-picture, which you may or may not have seen recently, since it may have been shown on some movie show with a host (maybe dressed up as some type of scary or unusual character). In March 1971, WXON-TV in Detroit was Channel 62, and in a few years, the television station switched over to Channel 20, and, today, Channel 62 is used by WWJ-TV. In March 1971, the television station known as WXON-TV showed movies regularly, such as under these umbrella titles--Sunday Showcase, Cinema 62, and Early Showtime. On March 24, 1971, the presentation for Early Showtime, which was scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m., was a movie called The Beast with a Million Eyes. That movie features such performers as Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, and Chester Conklin. I report that Chester Conklin was one of the cops for a while in the Keystone Cops or Keystone Kops films or related films of the early 1900s. Yes, The Beast with a Million Eyes is a B-movie, but it is harmless entertainment. The Beast with a Million Eyes was released to movie theaters in 1955, so, today, it is nearly 70 years of age, and it can be found for free on YouTube. And I would rather see it than almost anything on prime-time broadcast television.
    YouTube has been around for a bunch of years, and from time to time, I get exposed to something that I did actually call up when I am on YouTube, and here I felt I had to present some things that a local newscast for the Detroit area or a national network newscast would never expose a person to. On YouTube, there is a product called "'There is No More Middle Class, We'll All Be Broke,' California's New Minimum Wage Breaking Business". The product is from a guy named Anton Daniels, and he posted the product on April 2, 2024. Someone called "German in Venice" posted "Beverly Hills is Dying, Lots of Stores are out of Business. Beverly hills is becoming a Ghost Town". That video was posted on April 3, 2024. For a more realistic perspective of what is going on in the country, I urge you to see the two videos.
    And on April 8, 2024, The New York Post put a video on YouTube that every person who is not rotten should see so that every person can see the underlying nature Islam and many Palestinians, such as those in Dearborn, Michigan (where I lived for many years). I note once again that some 70 percent of the people in Gaza supported of the attack on Israel by Hamas, as noted in a survey of December 2023, which I have reported on in documents that I have on the Internet. On April 6, 2024, some supporters of Hamas held a protest rally at the Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn, and the video posted by The New York Post to which I refer--which is called "Anti-Israel protesters chant 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel' at rally in Michigan"--showed a bearded man pushing out rottenness in speech. One thing said by the man was a quote from Malcolm X (who been a highly rotten man when he lived), and the quotation pushed out was--"We live in one of the rottenness countries that has ever existed on this Earth.". And I say--What about North Korea, Cuba, China, Russia...? Also the man in the video said--"It's not Genocide Joe that has to go, it is the entire system that has to go.". The rally is proof that Islamic-type people wish to completely destroy the United States of America and Israel. It is well known by smart and honorable people that, in essence, the charters of such entities has Hamas report that a goal in life is to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. I wonder how many local television newscasts of Detroit television showed the statements made at the rally, such as by the man in the video. Go see the video and understand the culture of Hamas and like entities!
    In the next edition of Television History and Trivia, I will talk about video product that I made recently, and the video product is really six videos that cover nearly 90 minutes of time, and I think the stuff is much more watchable than any one-hour show or 90-minute show on prime-time broadcast television today, since my stuff is likable and nice.

    Remember: The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan was a television show that was produced across the pond and shown on CBS-TV in the late 1960s, and I urge you to find The Prisoner on DVD, maybe from a library, and watch it, and you should show it--all the episodes--to teenagers, or buy it as a present for teenagers.

Stay well!
Vic

    P.S.: You are urged to see my document entitled One of "The Rules of Man"--A Rule About Health Care that No Politician May Supersede with Law, which can be reached through this Rule1 link. I have deduced that all the Democrats and most Republicans support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and have no intention of killing it, though it should be killed for violating, for one, "The Rules of Man." For example, Republicans Jeb Bush and Chris Christie support the rotten law, and that is one reason that I define them as stupid men and not men who are good enough--in this day and age--to be the U.S. President. I note that the "mandate"--which forces everyone to buy government-approved health-care insurance--violates one of "The Rules of Man," and it is a rule that is attacked in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Anyone who supports the "mandate" is not a good enough person or a smart enough person to be the U.S. president--the mandate is "enslavism," and the "mandate" allows government people--who are often usually bad people, as history shows--decide what health care a person can get, and that is bad.

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Date published: April 10, 2024
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