Do We Get the Programming We Deserve?
Of course Sam Rubin is right (“This Entertainment Reporter Says He Isn’t Just Clowning Around,” Feb. 8): KTLA’s “Morning News” has a huge following and makes lots of money, and Academy Award preview/arrival shows do quite well.
Yes, he’s right--and therein lies the problem.
The fault does not lie with Sam Rubin and his chattering colleagues; it’s with the audiences.
There is no such thing as a bad movie, TV sitcom, friendly blabbermouth news program, or raunchy, liberal-bashing radio call-in show. No. There are only bad audiences, buying into this putrid garbage. Undereducated, uncaring, semi-comatose audiences.
Entertainment, at all its highest levels, is considered strictly a business. A matter of investment and return. The American culture be damned. And they’re right. Why bother trying to change audience habits when these are sure to resist change, experimentation and widening of cultural horizons?
My compliments to the operators of KTLA-TV and their counterparts at the highest network and film studio levels. You’re giving the people what they want.
That’s nice. Especially for our kids and grandkids.
Today is today and tomorrow will take care of itself. . . . It will, won’t it?
GARY FRANKLIN
Chatsworth
Sam Rubin’s reporting is always entertaining, and he is so right--what better way to deliver the entertainment news? “The Morning News” has a way of making you feel a part of their family, enveloping you in their cocoon of warmth. Brian Lowry should add them to his daily diet--it might improve his disposition.
CYNTHIA MEJIA
Long Beach