Mark is very busy for the next day or three so don't expect a lot of wonderment on this page. If you're starved for something media-related to read, I have some new posts up over at my Old TV Tickets site. Read all about Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell, The Newlywed Game and other classics.
I caught some of the State of the Union address and agree with those who say these things are always boring and that there's a strong level of phoniness regarding what the assemblage does and does not clap for. With George W. Bush, there's an extra layer of artifice because he has this tendency to announce things and then forget about them. How's that hydrogen car program going?
You get the feeling that Bush's poll numbers are pretty much frozen at about a 39%-41% approval rating? That nothing short of dragging Bin Laden in with his bare hands is going to help him much? No one seems to want to say that because the right-wing media doesn't want to believe it and the non-right-wing media is trying too hard to prove they're not the left-wing media. And hey, what's with Chris Matthews and a few other reporters, who seem to flip a coin before each on-camera appearance and decide if Bush is in trouble or making a spectacular comeback? Make up your mind, people, and cite some real evidence to support whichever position you take. A lot of this seems to me like trying to pretend there's important political news when there isn't any.
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