No. of Recommendations: 4
Dear Media Consultants:
When my grandparents wanted to listen to FDR's address, they turned on the Motorola in the living room, off of the public airwaves. Everyone could hear him, for free, with a twist of the switch.
When my parents wanted to watch the Kennedy-Nixon debates, they turned on the black and white TV, pulling it off of the ubiquitous, free public airwaves.
When I and my college friends watched Reagan tell Carter, "There you go again!" it was off my roommate's girlfriend's color TV, likewise off of one of the three networks all carrying it live.
Tonight, I was working in the kitchen and had the Harris-Walz interview piped from my cell to a Bluetooth speaker while I chopped.
After a 10 minute trial period, CNN cut me off, saying they needed to "certify my TV provider" if I wanted any more.
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My TV lives in the closet in the front hall. We last wheeled it out at, I dunno, Christmas?
While I probably have a "TV provider", I am completely fed up with having to authenticate to all you clowns all the time.
Now, I'm not blaming CNN, or the gubmint, or the candidates, or some whackjob conspiracy NOS.
I'm talking to you, the consultants who know all and see all, and still lose waaayy more elections than they should.
You'll be pulling in, what, maybe 5-10% of the $500MM that a certain party has pulled in? And you still managed to keep this interview channeled to the cohort of people just like you -- the ones who have their TV on to CNN on a weeknight.
Do you want the undecideds? Do you want the low-information voters?
You had one job: to put this interview everywhere there was an internet, cable, or cell phone connection. Anything with a speaker.
And you gummed it up, because every two years when you get out of the borough or the Beltway, you only go somewhere where CNN is playing. So that's all there is, of course.
If I were VP Harris, I'd be asking some tough questions about now.
--sutton
never understood background yammering
