Kill Eddie

I really hate channel 9 (How surprising. Drew is going on about how he hates a certain media outlet) Actually, how about that? I was going to talk about what wanks everyone at Ch9 seems to be (not that I know them personally but I judge them by what they do... and there's a saying about that isn't there?) and then I caught myself sounding like... well, myself again. This is one of those weird epiphanninical [yeah, I know] moments where you find yourself passing from one generation to another. And I don't mean I'm no longer a Gen Xer, I mean I'm not a 'youth' anymore. I'm now an older person; an adult and supposedly mature and responsible and reasonable. But I realise how much I'm starting to be annoyed by things and I think 'Shit, I'm turning into an old grump'. I mean, I used to laugh at my dad (and we've all been there... laughed at my dad) when he used to yell at A Current Affair (a Ch9 show). He was annoyed at whoever the story was about, being lazy or stupid or dishonest or however else a subject of an ACA story was being demonised by Ch9. Then I would get annoyed at him because he was sort of falling for the trick: becoming outraged by exactly what it was Ch9 wanted him to be outraged by. So that's whay annoyed him. What annoys me is that Ch9 still tries to outrage people. And I think 'Well, I'm not falling for the same line' and yet here I am still getting annoyed by pretty much the same thing (ie. Ch9) but from a different perspective. But that's why it annoys me. They're trying to evoke an emotional response about the subject of whatever story they're telling (and there's always a bias and I get all emotional because of their thinly veiled attempt to get me emotional. I would say it's very ironic but in the end I think it backfires on them because it means that when ACA does come on, Neighbours starts to look like pretty exciting television. I was going to rant about Ch9 putting Gilmore Girls at about their lowest priority show. In previous weeks it's been bumped for the football, for Bourke's Backyard (which was bumped by the footy the night before) and then there's the fact that last season they took it off mid-season without a single word. They just yanked it to make way for some 2- or 3-week reality TV special and never showed it again. Well, not till about a year later. Tonight it was bumped at short notice for Diagnosis Murder with Dick Van Dyke. Clearly this is a network aiming at the baby boomer generation. All that witty dialogue and those esoteric pop culture references go waaaaayy over the heads of most of the Ch9 demographic.