The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for August 31, 2023

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 1 year ago

    No way. Here there is a public all-news channel (RAI News 24) and every half an hour they repeat the same news and often, at night, launch the morning interviews and reports.

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    Gordo4ever  about 1 year ago

    News has to happen sometime.. why NOT between 6 and 11?

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    PoodleGroomer  about 1 year ago

    The evening news has the house fires from burning dinner and the car accidents and road rage. The morning news has shootings from drug deals going bad at 2 a.m.

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    GROG Premium Member about 1 year ago

    I’m up too early to go go to bed that late. Morning Joe gives me everything that happened the day and night before and breaking news of the morning – especially the political and legal news.

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    Baarorso  about 1 year ago

    Don’t bother with the news Brutus. To paraphrase a line from the movie Network, “They aren’t in the NEWS business, they’re in the BOREDOM KILLING business!”

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    Zykoic  about 1 year ago

    It’s a tape. Reruns every half hour. Also the same commercials. All filtered and conforms to the same plot script. Always near the end some misleading cliff hanger just prior to a long ad and then the let down story followed by another long ad and the finally a “feel good” story about a dog (cat, boy, girl) that got well ( found way home, sells lemonade, wins crapshoot) and lived another day.

    But the weather lady is lookin’ good!

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    The Reader Premium Member about 1 year ago

    This just in: Nothing happened.

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    preacherman Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Well, in our area, most folks have been glued to their TV’s to keep up on the the movements of Hurricane Idalia. She’s about through with SC and NC and heading out to sea.

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    enigmamz  about 1 year ago

    Well, I was just watching something else – it ended, and now THIS came on!

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    dcdete.  about 1 year ago

    This would make an idea for TV executives; what about making a 24 hour news station? They could have the slogan, ‘All the news, all the time!’

    Then you don’t have to wait the 5 hours between 6 and 11.

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    NRHAWK Premium Member about 1 year ago

    This is how most of us got sucked into watching those 24-hour news stations and streamers with some of us forming an actual addiction. I was fortunate to have grandkids to distract me into playing with them and watching shows like Bluey and Little Bear. I’ve even learned a few things like Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. I was informed that I had to go with them to the movie. Preparation is key to everything.

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    e.groves  about 1 year ago

    He wants to get up but can’t. The addiction is real.

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    [Traveler] Premium Member about 1 year ago

    I can’t stay up that late

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    The Famous Eccles  about 1 year ago

    “Aliens invade. World’s capitals destroyed. Film at 11”

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    rhpii  about 1 year ago

    The game didn’t go into extra innings, so there is nothing else on.

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    assrdood  about 1 year ago

    Half of the news is distorted, the other half is ignored.

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    flemmingo  about 1 year ago

    There could be a couple of more pharmaceutical ads that I haven’t seen!

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    Chris  about 1 year ago

    he’s not wrong… it’s when there’s a helicopter flying over your house at some awful hour is when you worry. :{

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    MeGoNow Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Nothing happened. Nothing you need take action over. Nothing you can do anything about today. Very little of it affects you in any way. And considering half the things it reports on, it’s just an open sewer you’ve placed in your living room. Ten minutes, once a week, would be plenty. Bad for you.

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    ChukLitl Premium Member about 1 year ago

    National network & cable each have to give their take on the top 2-3 stories, then have someone else talk about the same thing they’ve been talking about for years. Foreign & local give better news.

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    raybarb44  about 1 year ago

    He’s correct. I like to check the headlines myself to keep informed of news events even though I can’t change anything. In this ever changing world, it’s almost a duty to keep informed.Hurrah for you my friend….

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member about 1 year ago

    You can bet on that, Brutus…….

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    Brent Rosenthal Premium Member about 1 year ago

    By the time it’s on tv it is old news. I’ll take from this that Brutus isn’t a slave to a smartphone which tells you everything that happens within two minutes of occurrence. And my respect for Brutus has grown even more!

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    petermerck  about 1 year ago

    Is this common household product slowly killing you? News at 11.

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member about 1 year ago

    All the news is pre taped and ready to go by the end of the working day (in the time zone of the head office) and run at local time 6 and 11. New stuff will need to wait till tomorrow.. at best.

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    cuzinron47  about 1 year ago

    No wonder he’s depressed all the time.

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    Moonkey Premium Member about 1 year ago

    I don’t have the patience to watch a news show. I will read it on my phone so I can read what interests me and skip the rest, unless it’s important even if not interesting. All the commercials, the “what we are going to tell you” comments, the “we are telling you now comments,” and then the “we just told you this” comments, plus all the things that I don’t need to see or care at all about – I will read it. No TV news on in my house. Sometimes I read it on my computer. For this, I do kind of miss the newspapers, plus they had all of the comics and it was easy to just skip over the ones I didn’t like very much. Plus things like crossword puzzles. Easy to skip if not interested, fun if interested. Try that, TV news!

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    CorkLock  about 1 year ago

    I want to watch that Medicare Commercial again for 39th time today. Might be something new in it. They never give you time to get that telephone number, number number number…

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    Rose Madder Premium Member about 1 year ago

    And it usually when the sun goes does – the world gets weirder than during the day. At least around here.

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    RDerekGrier  about 1 year ago

    In this day and time Brutus could be correct with all of the shootings in the cities ie; mass shootings, high schools football games

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    T...  about 1 year ago

    And Gladys replies, “just like my soap-operas, nothing changes day to day, except that one day and I gotta be there or miss it”…

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    teachteed23  about 1 year ago

    Given the current state of affairs, that’s not funny.

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    Buckeye67  about 1 year ago

    Brutus just likes to be prepared when somebody asks him what’s new.

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    EMGULS79  about 1 year ago

    That was my family when I was growing up. If it wasn’t TV news it was radio news, but either way, there was news blaring 24/7. And that’s why the only way I get the news now is in forms that I can READ. Had enough of the incessant drone of anchormen to last a lifetime.

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    Laurie Stoker Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Sadly, a lot of awful things can happen in 5 yours.

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    dbrucepm  about 1 year ago

    news seems to be more about opinions and less about facts. just like schools no longer teach kids to think and reason things out the news just wants to tell you what they want you to believe. There are no more Walter Cronkites out there.

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    Moonkey Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Brutus has maybe been sitting there half asleep and unaware he already saw the earlier news?

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    mistercatworks  about 1 year ago

    Unless it was spontaneous recliner explosions, it’s not going to affect either of them. :)

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