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My impersonation of almost every television news producer today:
Is that the shock and awe?
Is that it?
We were promised shock and awe!!
Are we there yet? Huh? HUH?
Yea baby, give me those explosions. Oh yea. Bigger! Faster! YESSSSSSSSSS!
They're all going to need an entire box of tissues when that S&A campaign begins.
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Comments
The shock and awe comes when they realize that it's also Steak and BJ day.
Posted by: Joe | March 20, 2003 04:12 PM
Michele, S&A might never happen -- and for good reason.
Posted by: Stephen Green | March 20, 2003 04:17 PM
I couldn't have said it better! You just described so aptly what I've been seeing. When they're not being condescending, they're being impatient and disappointed.
Posted by: Jay Solo | March 20, 2003 04:39 PM
whew
Was it good for you, too?
Posted by: Chrees | March 20, 2003 04:55 PM
They're just lucky that they didn't preempt "Angel" with their round-the-clock there's-nothing-to-report coverage. :)
By the way, does anyone know what the business rationale is for having the same thing on every channel owned by a given network? I thought the reason for having multiple networks was to allow variety.
Posted by: Dan | March 20, 2003 05:37 PM
There was one guy reporting out of a press conference earliest saying "if you have to ask if it's Shock & Awe, it isn't." Thanks for that, moron.
Posted by: Faith | March 20, 2003 05:40 PM
At first I couldn't figure out that they were saying "Shock & Awe" (this is what I get for watching the news) and I thought it had some Indian/Native American/indigenous peoples name like "Choctinaw" or something.
I like Dan Rather's explanation that CBS is a news leader because of their cutting edge technology, except that sometimes it doesn't work and they can't get Jim Axelrod on audio or video just now.
Threw up a TroopTrax banner today, btw. Keep up the good work, Michele.
Posted by: Irk | March 20, 2003 05:50 PM
yeah, but they did cut off the last few minutes of angel...which upset me very much. (i wanna see faith and willow leave, goddamn it, i wanna see if willow hits on fred!)
or was that just in nyc?
Posted by: katydid | March 20, 2003 06:07 PM
A BBC corrospondent said "a better tag for this campaign would be 'mildly disconcerting'".
Posted by: Joshua Scholar | March 21, 2003 04:28 AM
They showed all of Angel here. After all of the quasi-flirting, Willow ends up telling Fred, "I'm seeing someone."
Posted by: Steven Jens | March 21, 2003 11:59 AM
What the fuck!? I got five channels of 24-hours-a-day Iraqi war coverage. Er, that is, 24 hours a day of grainy, digital images of brown soldiers in brown trucks driving through brown dirt and sand and constant commentary thereof. And I pay $39.95 per month for this?! Oughtta have my head examined. Gimme the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan anytime! I'm a taxpaying (and cable TV subscribing) american goddamnit. I expected some serious bloodshed. What a joke!
Posted by: angus mccloud | March 22, 2003 01:23 AM