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The News Business Is A Treadmill To Oblivion
June 21, 2009 | Permalink
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen
Posted by: Tom McMahon | Jun 21, 2009 9:20:49 PM
"Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion." I think Letterman's treadmill has started moving faster...much faster.
Posted by: Bruce Oksol | Jun 22, 2009 4:59:11 PM
Ah, good ol' "Uncle Walter"! The man who helped snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Vietnam by being Mouthpiece Number One for the Viet Cong.
Lovely fellow.
Posted by: Sparticus | Jun 22, 2009 9:50:11 PM
Ah, good ol' "Peter Jennings". The Canuck who tried to tell us how to be Americans.
Posted by: O Bloody Hell | Jun 23, 2009 2:17:57 AM
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