On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Eastick" <[email protected]> > >> i watched it. Did anybody else? > > I stumbled upon it halfway in -- the mini-story on changing the way we board > planes -- and BriWi's restrained, but visible, sense of humor set a good > mood for the show. > > I did question a choice the editors(?) made in the baby-tourism story. > China's one-child policy was left out of the body of the piece, and was only > touched on in the post-mortem. (And yes, we were told to go to the website > for more information.) > > With my Tivo handling "Hawaii Five-0," I'll try for the full "Rock" next > week.
I spent Monday watching recorded 60 Minutes, America in Primetime, and Jeopardy. At the end of that I saw that Rock Center was starting the Syria story so I watched that. During the summer I was reading the online version of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, following their version of the Occupy protests, and I came upon an interesting story. There's an offshoot Shia community in Israel, Syria, and Lebanon called the Druze. As the Druze don't have a separate homeland they become loyal citizens of whichever country they live in. The Druze in the Golan Heights are the only pre-1967 community there and they have kept their loyalty to Syria. For decades they were cut off from their families in Syria as the Syrian and Israeli governments would not allow border crossing or telephone contact between the two countries. What I read in an article is that the families can communicate easily now using Skype and every fall 250 young Golan Druze cross the 1973 armistice line and study at the University of Damascus. They return every summer. A reporter for Haaretz went to the Golan Heights this summer to talk to returning students about the uprising. Since the students can't leave Damascus, and Damascus is firmly in government hands without tolerating dissent, the students couldn't give eyewitness testimony, but they could relate the general feeling among students. So I watched Richard Engel's piece to see if he could add anything to the story. He kind of lost me spending so much time showing how he had to get in the country, but I can accept that it shows how hard the Syrian government is trying to control information. Engel really didn't shed light on much else. When Williams promoted an upcoming segment by showing Stewart I turned it off. My feeling is that if you're going to establish yourself as a serious news show, do that and show your audience something they haven't seen before. Don't try and establish coolness by inviting the fake news guy on. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
