Why do people... (Morning TV Breakfast Shows)

[Carrot]

...get so utterly masturbatory about the morning breakfast news shows?

Admittedly, I am not really a TV person - If there is something interesting on, I will watch it.

However, reading various newspapers, apparently it is a huge thing that some "Adrian Chiles" person (who in my eyes, although not being an oil painting myself, has a face more suited to radio), moved over to a rival breakfast show which now has "catastrophic" ratings and there are people try to save the show. Like it is some amazing massive problem that will end the world and civilisation as we know it. A TV show could go off the air due to lack of ratings - oh no... how terrible...

Apart from the people that are in employment by the TV studios, who fking cares??! Reading about it, you would think that Adrian has discovered a cheap, free, non polluting source of renewable energy the way people go on about how great he, and others like him are.

I am the first to hate celebrity culture, but this is such a non-issue its incredible. It is a fking breakfast television show for fks sake...

Possibly, and only by a small margin, the only thing less interesting is the antics of that hideous footballer, Rooney.

[marsred]

Its all because there's a lot of people in the country with a lot of time to fill, and not a lot to fill it with because they haven't discovered / aren't clever enough to comment on PH or get a job.

[5pen]

There's nothing the media likes more than a story about the media.

[slipstream 1985]

cos they are waiting for loose woman to start

[Shaw Tarse]

slipstream 1985 said:

cos they are waiting for loose woman to start

[TheEnd]

5pen said:

There's nothing the media likes more than a story about the media.

Absolutely, it's big news to them, and they haven't realised outside of their world, no one cares.
That's why ex-broadcasters from 30 years ago will get massive write-ups when they die, despite no one remembering them.

[Carrot]

TheEnd said:

5pen said:

There's nothing the media likes more than a story about the media.

Absolutely, it's big news to them, and they haven't realised outside of their world, no one cares.
That's why ex-broadcasters from 30 years ago will get massive write-ups when they die, despite no one remembering them.

This makes a lot of sense now you mention it. There was an article a while back about some "amazing" veteran presenter who died of old age recently... And I remember thinking "who??!"