The Hologlobe Press -- T.H.A.T. #239

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    I begin this edition of Television History and Trivia with a topic related to women and politics and news. In the late 1960s, it was commonplace for a young man named Jamie Pratt and me (who was also a young man, aged in the late teens or so) to sit on the porch at 295 Biltmore Street, Inkster, Michigan, on warm evenings, such as in the summer, and talk about various subjects, such as religion, and it was debate time in a way and a time in which we were analysing thoughts and ideas about the world, such as logically. It is the type of thing that young girls do not do and are not into doing--having logical debates about the world and the universe. Since the middle of the 1970s, I have been getting my hair cut at places on the east side of the Detroit area, and the places are mostly filled with women (clients and stylists), and I began to get hair cut at such places because a girl friend of mine in the late 1970s did not like my going to a "John Ryan" hair-cutting place (in Dearborn Heights, Michigan), so she directed me to a hair-cutting place at which a sister of one of my girl friend's friend's at North Detroit General Hospital (in the lab area) worked. Since then, I have become well aware--by being at hair salons with women mostly--of what women talk about and what they think about regularly, such as things tied to emotions and family and boy friends and such, and they do not talk about news and the ways of world, as Jamie Pratt and I did in the late 1960s. From 1971 to 1977, I was a member of a student-run radio station at Wayne State University called WAYN-AM, and in 2003, I posted my first version of a history document on the Internet (at the website for The Hologlobe Press) about the radio station, and since then, people have seen the document, and a few people have written me about having seen the document, and some of the people have provided recollection information to me about the radio station, and I have typed the recollections into the document, and since 2003, it has only been guys who have written me and have submitted stuff, and to me, it shows men are more interested in past events and history and related things [Note: I note that I bet a lot of people who have seen the document have avoided writing me about havng seen the document, since my website is anti-communistic and anti-socialistic and anti-liberalistic, and that is against what they stand for, and history shows that some 90 percent of the media people are aligned with the Democratic Party.]. Since the 1970s, I have seen more and more women get into the management and operation of media entities, and it has become possible to see that the staffs at media places are mostly made up of women. For example, up to a couple years ago, I could go in to the main offices for the Cheboygan Daily Tribune (Cheboygan, Michigan), and over the ten or so years during which I was able to get in the offices, I could see nearly an all-women staff, and, today, I can still get in the offices for the Presque Isle County Advance (Rogers City, Michigan), and I mostly see women, and both newspapers have evolved in to mostly women-focused newspapers. For example, I am the best historian about The Mackinaw WAGB-83 (which is a former U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker on the Great Lakes and is now a museum at Mackinaw City, Michigan), and between 1944 and about the early 1980s, numerous stories got published in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune about the icebreaker, which was based at Cheboygan, and in my search for information about the ship over the recent years, I have been able to dig up a lot of history from editions of the newspaper from 1944 to about the early 1980s. Between the 1980s and 2006, little was written about the icebreaker, since more time was given to stories that have little history value (for the future historian), so I am a little weak on the history of the ship from the 1980s to 2006, as anyone else would be. Of course, between the 1970s and today, newspapers all over the country have been going through a transformation--they have been providing less and less real history information that tells what the world really is and putting in more and more women-related emotional stuff (with short-term value), such as about fund-raisers and charity entities. In Television History and Trivia #235 (which was published on the Internet on October 10, 2023), I talk about the television special called 75 Years of 7 (which focuses on WXYZ-TV), and I talk about some related videos tied to the special, which were interviews of Robbie Timmons, Diane Lewis, and Jerry Hodak on video, and I show how Robbie Timmons and Diane Lewis provided no real history about the television station and passed along only emotional filler, such as about the people at the station being like a family, and Jerry Hodak was the only one of the three who passed along some history information about the station, and I say that what Robbie Timmons and Diane Lewis talked about and were concerned with showed what women are more concerned with and what Jerry Hodak talked about showed what men are more concerned with. There is a difference between the way in which women and men think, and that comes down to, for example, the ways that the brains of women and the brains of men have evolved over the centuries and centuries and centuries, and the brains have gone through the developments in ways that make the male brain better for some things and the female brain better for other things (such as handling and caring for babies (often when babies have not yet developed the abilities to talk) on a twenty-four-hour-a-day basis for a number of years, and so women have become more based at working to be caring and such and men have become more based on working to protect and analyze the world. Since the 1970s, it has become commonplace for women to get into media positions and political positions, because women have automatically been given the positions because they are women and not because they are best for the jobs (and that helped kill the broadcast department of AAA Michigan, by the way), and women have automatically been given the positions because people believe women are just as smart as men are, and now it is commonplace for at least half the people in on-air positions on television to be women, and that applies to television stations and television networks, and I have seen times when more women than men have been involved in working to put down Donald J. Trump through what I have called defective television "spectaculars" from NBC-TV and other entities, and those so-called "spectaculars" have mostly present emotional nonsense and no logic. A person's being able to gather data in memory--to memorize facts for tests--and being able to think logically are two different standards and topics of knowledge and smartness, and both women and men can gather data and put it in memory, if wished, but what is done with what is gathered as data, such as to ignore, can often be different. Based on what I have presented so far, I can say that it is more commonplace for women to think emotionly than it is for men, and given that, it is more likely women will take up being sympathic to the ways of socialism (for instance), since women do not want others to be confrontational, and women want people to get along, but because women want to be caring and such and can have a poor analysis and understanding of the true nature of "socialism" as a political form, women will back the ways of socialism more easily as men will. Hold it! There is a difference in the way women and men argue--women with women and women with men (*). It is commonplace for women to not back up an argument with facts and data, and I have seen that over the last 70 years or so, and when women are losing or seemingly losing in an argument, they can or will fight back with more and more emotional nastiness. The cliche (as seen in some minds) has developed--based on true facts--that a man can during an argument with a woman note that the woman is not thinking logically. The tactic by the woman is the way it is, or in the way to win an argument, it can be commonplace for women to be nasty, and that is especially true in politics, which is the way of women who align themselves with the Democratic Party and Democratic Party-based news services, such as NBC News, ABC News, and MSNBC. By the way, I have shown in the past how many women can be involved in writing or producing episodes of the broadcast network television shows, and I have shown how it is becoming commonplace for television shows to be "ugly," and "ugly" television has only shown up with more and more women (socialistic women) getting involved in controlling what gets on broadcast network television.
    [* = You are urged to see the previous document in which--in essence, I talk about an argument over facts that I had with a gal named Jen Heller, who has a webpage (at "Rerun Rewind") on the Internet called "Going the Distance: The Life and Death of the DuMont Network", which has a lot of wrong information about the DuMont Network. The argument started out with my providing only a few corrections to her historically messed-up document, and she immediately became defensive and worked to put me down. She immediately attacked my character and not what I had presented her, and she did not even say that she was going to take my material under advisement or something, and she would not during the entire process. In the end, Jen Heller fought back through a smear campaign tied to a webpage in which I was depicted as being like "Grandpa Simpson" (of The Simpsons), and the page is loaded with childish stuff, which a person can expect would be put together by a little girl, especially a nasty little girl. There was no attempt on her part to prove through logic that she was right about the history. However, I must note that Jen Heller is a hard-line feminist and socialist at least, as a person can deduce by seeing her website, and that means there is no way in which she was and is going to accept real facts that counter her narrative. By the way, a link to the previous document is at the bottom of this document.]
    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!]
    Now, I jump to this topic, and it may be a bit dated, but it has value. On Friday, January 12, 2024/Saturday, January 13, 2024, a snow-and-rain storm hit the Detroit area, where I happened to be. On Saturday, January 13, 2024, in the morning, I did shoveling, and I did it to get the snow and ice (snow-and-ice blocks) up so that if it snowed over the next couple of days, the shoveling work would be easy, since I would not have to fight somewhat thick old snow and ice and new snow on the sidewalks and driveways, and I was able to get much of the snow-and-ice stuff up. From Saturday, January 13, 2024, to Sunday, January 14, 2024, a bit of snow fell in the Detroit area, and on the morning of January 14, 2023, I was out shoveling again, getting up the new snow and getting up more of the snow-and-ice block stuff that had come some one day previously. At about noon or in the noon hour, while I was sort of goofing off but working on a bit more of the old ice stuff, a snowplow (using a scraper) passed by on Planavon Street, and it headed north from Nine Mile Road in Ferndale, and the snowplow was being followed by a Go 4 It! remote news van, and the two vehicles disappeared for a few minuntes, and, minutes later, they went by again, going south on Planavon Street and heading to Nine Mile Road, and the snowplow was putting down salt. The big snow storm was gone (by over a day)! It was all over! Why was a Go 4 It! truck following a snowplow in Ferndale, while the plow was salting? Was that big news for the day? Was that a reason to see that a person can "Expect More" (local news) from Channel 4--a look at a snowplow in a city where the roads were passable, though a bit snow covered, and it was just another winter day? Oh, I can see why the Go 4 It! van was probably in Ferndale. It was, for one, easy for the Go 4 It! van to be in Ferndale. The van got to fly up Woodward Avenue from downtown Detroit, and it could look like the news department was covering stuff outside of Detroit proper (though Ferndale borders Detroit). But it is commonplace for Detroit news people to go to the popular socialistic towns and cities and show off, such as Ferndale, Royal Oak, and Ann Arbor. By the way, on the morning of January 14, 2024, the sky was blue, and there were no clouds. While the van passed by, I remembered the "Expect More" promos in black-and-white featuring staffers of the WDIV-TV news department and how stupid they come off, and the promos had recently been given a lot of airplay on the subchannels for WDIV-TV, and the promos were in two main types--type one featured one person in each promo (featuring such persons as Karen Drew and Rhonda Walker), and type two were group promos. Look as some of the promos:
    I begin with one of the stand-alone or one-person pieces. Christy McDonald said--"I fell into journalism, because I was curious about people's stories. When I can listen to why someone did something and then bring that to other people and they can hear it--maybe they already had a preconceived notion about any belief or understanding or policy or politics--but when you hear it from someone else's perspective maybe you think, well, I can see where they're coming from. The more that we know what's going on in our community and the more we feel connected to it, and more empathy we have, the more we understand it.". Christy McDonald got particularly more soft in presentation when she said the "maybe they already had a preconceived notion about any belief or understanding or policy or politics" section, and when she said the "any belief or understanding or policy or politics" section, she really came off a phony and manipulative. Do you see the nonsense girlie stuff about feelings and "empathy"? In addition, who is Christy McDonald trying to persuade to have more empathy and for whom does she want the empathy to be directed? Is she working to get people to "feel" for those who have taken up the socialistic way of life for the country? I do not have sympathy or empathy for socialists and communists and liberals, but that statement comes from a man and not a feminized man or boy. I do not go to the news shows so that I can gain sympathy and empathy for others--I want news, such as that that shows up the rottenness being done to the country, such as by Joseph Biden. If she was curious about "people's stories," why did she not become a hair stylist, where she can listen to so many other people's stories, especially girls' stories, every week, and they she can gossip about them to others. Maybe she should have become a bartender.
    Now let me get to the "group think" stuff (or the promos in which several people are presented each time). I have two sets to talk about. The first set features the upper-level group of news people at WDIV-TV:
    Kimberly Gill: "I love telling great stories about the community. There's so many great stories in Detroit." [Note: It should have been "There are so many great....".]
    Devin Scillian: "Really intimate stories about people making decisions that end up changing their lives or the lives of others."
    Karen Drew: "Where I see something's wrong, I can fix it and hold someone accountable so it doesn't happen again."
    Rhonda Walker: "That inspire where you're learning about someone that has overcome obstacles, that's gone above and beyond."
    Jason Colthrop: "The stories that help people are the most important to me."
    The words presented by the so-called news people make overall a bunch of nonsense and girlie stuff. What the heck is meant by "so many great stories in Detroit"? The schools are crap, and children, in essence, can barely read. The functionally illiterate rate is high in adults in Detroit. People in the city are working to get "reparations" for blacks--free money. Devin Scillian truly talked like a girl, focusing on "intimate stories" and "making decisions." What stories does WDIV-TV present about people's making decisions? I do not want to see that, given it is meaningless to me. I do not tune into stories about people's overcoming "obstacles," but it is very likely girls do and girlie men do. Generally speaking, a person's seeing stories about people overcoming "obstacles" does not make them learn more about, maybe, the crap that is going on in the city, and such a story takes up space that can be used to show off true nonsense going on in the city so that people can learn the underlying true nature of the city and the people who run it and live in it. And Jason Colthrop is touched by the stories that help people, as a girl might be.
    Here is another stand-alone presentation. Jason Colthorp said--"I like to think that I'm an advocate for people who trust me to tell their stories. I do what I do simply because it's incredibly important these days. The way the world is and the way people need information, but also the way--they're--we're fighting so many battles about where they're getting information--what's true and what's not. It's, it's extremely important to be able to give people the news fairly and accurately and without bias. And I really think I'm one of the people who can do that and takes pride in doing that.". In essence, what Jason Colthorp said is crap. When a person starts talking about being an "advocate," I do not think of a reliable news person, since the person is very more likely to be concerned with social justice and other like nonsense. People have always needed information, so his statement about "the world and the way people need information" is uselessness. Jason Colthorp pushed out the idea or hinted at the idea that he should be trusted to give fair and balanced news, but he is tied to NBC News, which has shown over the last few decades, especially within the last decade, that it is a rotten news entity, as I have shown in documents about how NBC News has covered (in what I have called defective "spectaculars" for television) stuff about Donald J. Trump--the lies and the misinformation and the withheld information.
    Now, I present shallow "group think" set two:
    Pamela Osborne: "It's not lost on me that a lot of times when I show up, it's on the worst day someone's life. Something really tragic or awful has happened."
    Will Jones: "Anytime, in someone's home talking with someone, someone trusts me, I want them when they watch the story to say--that reporter really got me."
    Victor Williams: "I'm feeling that emotion or whatever that person is going through."
    Shawn Ley: "I care. You trust me to invite me into your home, listen to your triumphs or tragedies."
    Megan Woods: "We're treating them as family and friends that we're trying to help and do whatever we can to help."
    Jacqueline Francis: "If you think of it, sometimes the hardest stories are the ones we have to hear most."
    Priya Mann: "And in that story, there is a lesson. There is something we can all walk away with knowing we can be better because of what somebody else went through."
    Mara MacDonald: "We have a real responsibility to do the best job we can . An enormous amount of care goes into the choices that are made here."
    The collection of words from the secondary group is drivel and nonsense and emotional garbage, and, really, it is bullshit. Shawn Ley--who often tries to look tough on television--does not care. He does not come into my home and listen to my "triumphs or tragedies." That is not useful for the public anyway! The often-angry looking Mara MacDonnel (who never seems to be happy, like hard-line Democrats) pushed out the nonsense that "an enormous amount of cares goes into choices." What amount of care must be used to put together yet another traffic-crash story or shooting story in Detroit--regular features of WDIV-TV newscasts. Yes, in a way, the stories that viewers have to hear the most are those traffic-crash stories and shooting stories, and those are just so hard to cover, according to Jacqueline Francis. But Victor Williams "feels" the "emotion." He "feels." It all touches his heart. On another subject, I ask--How the hell can I "be better because of what somebody else went through"? Will Jones pushed out a "that reporter really got me" theme, and that reminded me of that old joke--"Get him!" [which is not a compliment]. Through the promote, the gals talked like girls, and the guys sounded like girls. Oh, my catching the spot over and over again is sort of like going through the "worst day" of my "life" over and over.
    To close the offering of text from promos, I present Devin Scillian. In a stand-alone spot, Devin Scillian said--"I love really intimate stories about people making decisions that end up changing their lives or the lives of others. We have so much in common. We all over world love to laugh, like to celebrate. We want better things for our children. We like to dance. We like music. I think there's so many things that unite us as people. And I like focusing on those things that sort of bring us together and help us understand those threads that tie us." In relation to "news" and doing "news," the statement from Devin Scillian is girlie nonsense and useless information. In fact, I say that the material present by Devin Scillian is bullshit! It is a collection of flap-doodle words. Oh, if Devin Scillian loves "really imtimate stories," he should go sit in a hair salon all day. [Note: In relation to the socialist, what is the "better things" that the socialist wants for the socialist's children--enslavism for others and stuff taken from others?]
    A good and honorable person should wonder whether all that was said was written by staffers or managers at the station and the reporters recited it or all that was said was really developed in the minds of the speakers, and if the material was all from the minds of the speakers, it shows the "collectivism" of the staff at WDIV-TV.
    I add this "for the record" bit. On Sunday, January 14, 2023, I just happened to flip the channel to WDIV-TV during the six o'clock hour in the evening, and I happened to catch a news report (a recorded report) with Nick Monacelli, and he was in Ferndale. Nick Monacelli was talking about the snow in Ferndale, and on the screen was often this set of words--"Ferndale working to clear side streets". A resident of Ferndale was shown snoveling, and the resident--a guy--was interviewed. I say in jest---Yes, a guy shoveling in Ferndale was really important to someone in Trenton and someone in Garden City and someone in Utica...., and, yes, the Ferndale truck guys working on the streets in Ferndale was a big deal to people in other cities--and the storm was long gone. By the way, it was not as if the side streets in Ferndale were impassable, given the height of the snow on the ground was low, really. I guess the viewers of the report are supposed to have sympathy and "empathy" for that snow-shoveling guy in Ferndale. It was stupid stuff!
    Oh, maybe I should talk about the commercial that has been pushed out by Channel 4.1, WDIV-TV, for a while in which the theme is "The most trusted hour..." (related to the newscasts on the station at 6:00 p.m. on weekdays).
    Instead of looking at the "most trusted hour" (of WDIV-TV news at 6:00 p.m. on weekdays for a half hour with NBC-TV news at 6:30 p.m. for a half hour), I move on to this. WDIV-TV is an affiliate of NBC-TV, and NBC-TV is tied to MSNBC, and that means WDIV-T is tied to MSNBC, especially WDIV-TV airs news segments that have MSNBC personnel. On February 28, 2024, Rachel Maddow (of The Rachel Maddow Show of MSNBC) showed the nature of MSNBC, which is not good, and, in essence, the natures of NBC-TV and WDIV-TV by association. On a television program for MSNBC, Rachel Madow was a guest, and one thing that she said was related to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear a court case about immunity for a U.S. president--"...The important question here is not whether the Supreme Court's going to decide that Donald Trump and all presidents are immune from prosecution for things, they commit crimes, committed while they were president. I mean it would be fully insane for them to actually side with Trump here. Right?....". Hold it! It has been the rule for decades and decades that a person while being the U.S. president cannot be charged by local and county and state government officials for crimes, since that would, basically, stop a U.S. president from ever making a decision, and a person once out of the office of the U.S. president cannot be tried for what the person had been done as the U.S. president. That is logical. Of course, once a person is out of the office of the U.S. president, any local or county or state official could start up a case against the person for actions done after the person had left the office of the U.S. president, as can be done to all other persons in the country. And that is logical! While a person is a U.S. president, the person can be removed from office through actions of the U.S. Congress, and that is the impeachment and removal from office features of the country. So what the hell is Rachel Maddow talking about? It would be rotten for the country if the U.S. Congress wiped out the idea that any person while being the U.S. president can be taken to trial by local or country or state official for actions taken while the person had been the U.S. president or taken for trial after the person had been the U.S. president for actions taken while the person had been the U.S. president. After Rachel Maddow had said the material that I have quoted, Rachel Madow went on to push out nonsense about killing an opposing candidate and not being prosecuted, but I say that a person's killing or having an opponent killed while the person were a U.S. president gets covered by what the U.S. Congress can do while the person is the U.S. president. Then Rachel Maddow offered up this nonsense--"So the idea that they [the members of the U.S. Supreme Court] are going to side with him on immunity is unthinkable and also beside the point. The conclusion that we can arrive at now based what they have done--without having to wait for the ruling--is that they are ensuring that Trump will not face trial, and when they inevitably rule that presidents aren't immune from prosecution after they leave office, what that will tell Donald Trump, if by then he is president, is that he can never leave the office of the presidency. And if he is voted out in 2028, he cannot leave office, and he is willing to comm, he's welcome to commmit any crimes he wants to as long as he is still president in order to ignore the result of that election and stay in power for life, because otherwise he's going to go to prison when he gets out. That is the way this is going to go unless the country votes Trump out, votes for Bioden and against Trump in November....". That material from Rachel Maddow is bullshit of the highest order! For one, there has been no evidence--offered up to good and honorable people--that Donald J. Trump committed any crimes against the country while he was the U.S. president, and good and honorable people know the impeachment events against Donald J. Trump were corrupt and know the current court-case events are corrupt, such as that in which Donald J. Trump had criminally took federal-government document and had them at Mar-a-Lago when he was no longer the U.S. president. The entire interview event with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC was propaganda and filled with lies and crap, and Rachel Maddow--another rotten woman involved in the "news" business--and her associates worked to teach crap to viewers, and that is what you get from a communistic and socialistic news entity that has direct ties--really--to NBC-TV and WDIV-TV. [Note: If WDIV-TV (or WDIV-TV news) was any good, it would leave the affiliation with NBC-TV. Keep in mind--The people in the news department at WDIV-TV are being taught by NBC-TV every moment, since they are exposed to what NBC-TV puts out, and they are not sitting around watching CBS-TV or ABC-TV to see what it going on, though ABC-TV and CBS-TV are crap, too. It is clear that the people at WDIV-TV are not getting exposed to anti-communistic and anti-socialistic news entities on a regular basis.]
    Hey, socialism--especially from women--is crap. Did you hear about this next topic? On April 1, 2024, the minimum wage was set to go up in California because of a law that had been made in September 2023 through a signature by Governor Gavin Newsom, and the new wage related to an hour was set at $20.00. Back in January 2024, people in California learned that some businesses were not going to take up paying some workers that four-dollar rise in fee for an hour, because it was not cost effective or was bad for keeping the business on a better footing. For example, Southern California Pizza Company let it be known in January 2024 that some 850 workers--in-house pizza drivers--were being let go before the new law would take effect. So that is what the socialistic men and women in government did once again--kill off some jobs--by screwing around with the economy and economics.
    Incidentally, I happend to turn to Channel 4.1, WDIV-TV, at about 9:25 a.m. on January 24, 2024, and, at that point, Channel 4.1 was carrying The Today Show, and there was a discussion of sorts going on with a gal (whose name I did not get). The theme was a "By the Book" segment, and a graphic on the screen the entire time (at the bottom of the screen) was--"Reading Rhythms Book Party". The segment was a perfect example of the thinking done by girls, concerned with "connecting" and other emotional things, such as making friends. It is more proof of my premise related to what women think about.
    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).
    It is time to look at the new television season, after I give some rough television history information. If you look at the period of time from 1970 to about 1995, it was commonplace for a television season for the broadcast networks to exist in four phases. The first phase of a season was the "first season," which ran from September to December. The "second season" of a season went from January to about March. Then, there was a short third season, which was on in April and May. And, finally, the final season was the summer-replacement season or rerun season. For the "second season" of the 2023-2024 season, a bunch of new shows or new seasons for series have shown up. I hope you are not lost with the "season" talk. I argue that this "second season" is rather flat and depressing and even ugly. There is little that is nice, and I have examples to prove the case that there is little nice in the "second season," which, this year, will easily run into the "third season." NBC-TV launched news episodes of the flat Night Court on January 2, 2024, and it was followed by the news series called Extended Family, which had that inner-city gutter feel, and on the following week, new episodes of La Brea, a depressing series, began to follow Night Court and Extended Family on Tuesdays. On January 17, 2024, CBS-TV fired up new episodes of Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, and Chicago P.D, and it is a three-hour block of somewhat depressing stuff. The next night--Thursday, January 18, 2024--NBC-TV pushed out a really depressing three-hour block of stuff in new form--Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Organized Crime. On Monday, January 22, 2024, Fox TV started up America's Most Wanted and TMZ Investigates, and, basically, both shows are rather unlikeable as a whole, especially TMZ Investigates, which is like cheap tabloid-magazine stuff. ABC-TV got into pushing out gutter-like stuff for Wednesdays by launching the new seasons of The Connors, Not Dead Yet, and Abbott Elementary on Wednesday, February 7, 2024, and a game-show-like thing followed that group, and that thing was the gutter-toned Judge Steve Harvey, which is hosted by a poor-speaking and rather low-brow Steve Harvey, and the show is like that low-level half-hour stuff that has been in syndication for years, such as Divorce Court and Paternity Court; the three-hour block on February 7, 2024, had the tone set in the first few minutes of The Connors, during which, in a restraurant-like scene, the main female regulars of the series (Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, and Lecy Goranson) came off as really ugly--especially in relation to their personas--and when I was watching the segment, I saw the gals a gutter slugs and the type of gals whom I would never want to have around. On February 13, 2024, CBS-TV pushed out the new seasons of FBI, FBI: International, and FBI: Most Wanted, and it is a three-hour block of the same stuff that people are getting from NBC-TV on Thursdays evenings for three hours, and that is not surprising, since both blocks come out of, in essence, the same production house, and it is the house of Dick Wolf--Wolf Entertainment [Note: At the beginning of FBI: Most Wanted, there was a scene in which Dylan McDermott's character was involved with therapy crap, and that type of stuff is a turn off for me, since it is feminism-driven crap.]. On Friday, February 16, 2024, CBS-TV pushed out, in essense, more of the same, and it was more depressing hour-long series stuff, featuring S.W.A.T., Fire Country, and Blue Bloods, and Fire Country sort of reminds me of the early 1930s, when the movie industry sort of was making criminals seem to be good guys in movies, and that partially led to the rise an anger in movie-goers, who thought the morals were rather bad in movies, so the movie industry took up enforcing moral standards, and, for instance, that seems to have hurt Ms. Anna May Wong's career a bit, since she had been in a movie that hinted at lesbianism, and Fire Country sort of works to make a criminal look good. I must add that the episode of S.W.A.T. ended with high violence; a young woman was strangled, and that is what the public was left with for a week or so. Also, the episode of Blue Bloods focused on the problem with new migrants in New York City and how the city was dealing with them, but the episode did not report that the problem is directly tied to Joseph Biden's not following existing immigration laws and enforcing immigration laws, which is an impeachable offense; immigration laws have been on the books for decades, though they have been adjusted from time to time, and it was not the current immigration laws on the books that caused the migrant problem in New York and the country. The episode of Blue Bloods was political crap! And more of the same thing on CBS-TV came on Sunday, February 18, 2024, when the new seasons of The Equalizer and CSI: Vegas showed up, and sandwiched in between them was the new Tracker, and that made three more hours of violence for the sake of violence, especially in relation to The Equalizer, which had been promoted in the past few days in promos on television through violent scenes focusing on the star Queen Latifah (who is no queen to me, though that is what CBS--TV is working to sell her as). Also, on Sunday, February 18, 2023, the new season of American Idol was fired up on ABC-TV, and I was exposed to the last few minutes of rarther ugly television; some fairly young gal, who got (it seems) reunited with some family members, sang, while at a piano, two depressing songs and unhappy songs, and yet the celebrities were so impressed. However, maybe it was one song done twice or partially twice. I did not pay attention to the songs (for the words), given they were depressing right from the start. Then, on Tuesday, March 4, 2024, Fox TV did cater to the Hispanics, and it pushed out the first episode of the new season of The Cleaning Lady, but, unfortunately for the Hispanics and all others, the show is one of the ugliest prime-time series on the air today; for example, the leader character never seems to be happy, and she is always a bit ugly looking. The Cleaning Lady was followed on that Tuesday night by another of the same dark stuff--the first new episode of Alert: Missing Persons Unit. I have talked about in the past how many of the game shows on prime-time broadcast network television are hosted by gutter-type people, and the tone of the hosts is a turn off for me, and it makes me remember the good styles of game-show hosts of the past, such as the styles of Bob Barker, John Daly, Bud Collier, Nipsy Russell, Bob Eubanks, Bill Cullen, and Garry Moore. The prime-time period of the broadcast networks has such icky stuff as Bad Romance (of ABC-TV), Dateline (of NBC-TV), 48 Hours (of CBS-TV), and 20/20 (of ABC-TV), which is not designed to make people feel better. And Fox TV has low-level cartoons series on Sunday such as Krapopolis and Grimsburg. Today, it is hard to get away from the tone of the prime-time periods of the broadcast networks, because a lot of the stuff that got us to this point in television tone exists in repeat from on subchannel networks or in syndication, so people end up bumping to ancestors to what is on today, such as Two and a Half Men and Law & Order: Criminal Intent and The Office. Today, television lacks diversity, and I mean there is too much of the same hour-type drama shows and depressing shows, and there is very little that is nice and fun, as could be found in, for examples, the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
    Okay, maybe, there is one new series on broadcast television that will be likable for at least a while. On Thursday, February 29, 2024, I was able to catch the first episode of a new series called Elsbeth, which features a gal named Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni, who is a lawyer. Hold it! One bad part is that the character was in Chicago, and she was moved to New York City to do some type of job. It is more of that--It seems only Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City are used in one-hour-long television series, and it seems Hollywood is working hard to make Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City appear to be great places to be at. In the first episode, Elsbeth was so happy to be in New York City. Elsbeth came off as likable in the first episode, as she worked to show why such-and-such an event of death was not suicide. Whether or not the production people will use the series to sell feministic crap and crappy ways of politics has yet to be seen. For now, I will say that Elsbeth was passable. However, I note that the series is more of that work to focus on female leads, so I expect feminist crap to show up.
    Okay, I have a preliminary announcement. I have made six simple videos (ranging in length from six minutes to about thirty minutes). One talks about the true end date for the DuMont Television Network; everybody, such as the Britannica staff, has it wrong, and the wrong information has been out in the public for decades and decades. I have a video about my making a model of 40 Mile Point Lighthouse (of the Rogers City area of Michigan). I have a video about my making five little nude female figurines--most of whom are Asian gals--for my model of 40 Mile Point Lighthouse. I have a video about WAYN-AM radio of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, focusing on the time from 1967 to 1985. I have a video about defective photographs of Ms. Anna May Wong, and the photographs work to get people to buy them since they show Anna May Wong in the nude, but I prove that the photographs are fakes. And I have a video that shows who was that naked lady that showed up on the set of The Soupy Sales Show at KABC-TV in about 1961--I have identified the gal for the public.

    In the next edition of Television History and Trivia, my regular feature for Television History and Trivia documents called Looking at the Movies will focus on my six videos, but this edition of Looking at the Movies will simply present a movie that was broadcast on a television station in the early days of the television station. Since the focus of this edition of Television History and Trivia has been about women mostly as a rule, I felt I should choose a movie for this edition of Looking at the Movies that featured a woman or women. One reason that I picked the movie that gets featred in this document is it was not tied to Channel 4, which has gotten enough focus in this document. When I saw the title of the movie on a card in my files, I could not remember seeing it, and when I fired up YouTube, I found it, and I discovered I had never seen the movie. On June 6, 1952, at 11:15 p.m., Channel 7, WXYZ-TV, began to air Hitch Hike Lady. When I began to look at the movie, I wondered why it would be called Hitch Hike Lady. Basically, the movie began by taking the viewer to England, where the main character--played by Alison Skipwood--was based, and then that character was sent to the United States of America, where her son was in prison, and the main character could not hitch hike to the U.S.. But that is no reason to not see the 1935 movie. Also in the movie were Mae ("Miss Grapefruit-in-the-Face gal") Clark, Arthur Treacher, Jimmy Ellison, and Warren Hymer. Way down in the credits, you will see Ward Bond, whose last work on film would be as a featured performer on the television series of the late 1950s and early 1960s called Wagon Train. To see whether or not the title of the movie fits the movie, you will have to see it, since I will not tell you anymore about it. So some time soon, take up the journey to see Hitch Hike Lady.
    And I have this for-the-record section. On February 28, 2024, a fire destroyed the broadcasting equipment for the WCMU-TV (a PBS affiliate) systems for, roughly, northeastern Lower Michigan, so PBS stuff is not being seen in, roughly, northeastern Lower Michigan, such as on the Channel 6 group. That means less crap--such as the communistic news reporting of PBS--is being seen by people in northeastern Lower Michigan. Although WCMU-TV had a few good things to see, such as Antiques Roadshow, WCMU-TV pushed out political crap overall.

    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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