A CBS survey networking team contacted me today via my home phone. Now, I am normally quite selective with whom I do these phone
buggers with... but, in this instance I couldn't wait to voice my opinions.
The questions were so all over the place extreme in topic I had to question if she in fact truly represented CBS at one point. (I told her it sounded like a "moral majority" survery taking place.
) She explained that it was for several areas of CBS news coverage - and that the survey results will be posted in Feb. sometime on their news.
But, it covered the government, (like which administration do you think has done the best job ever? WOULD our "founding fathers" approve of the way today's government is being run? What would I like to see be a primary focus at this time: employment, healthcare to global warming, etc... What about the campaign fundraising bill?)...
to who would I "likely more easily forgive (?!) - Sen. Edwards, Tiger, and several other cheatin' heart folk choices...".
She questioned about the newly elected Mass. official having posed nude in the past, and "what if a woman had done that in the same position" - would she have had more difficulty with the media coverage of it and also being elected?
(Well, I guess so, 'cause I didn't even KNOW that about this guy!)
And what about "late night TV shows", and "reality shows" - better or worse than earlier days? Is it good to be helping disasters such as Haiti, when we have our own problems domestically? Should folks feel obligated to help? Should they "feel" obligated "morally" to help? Should we help all along - or only when a disaster happens - no matter what, or where? Does that depend on one's income?
Actually, the survey was kind of "rag mag-y" in parts of it. Some strange categories, showing me what people are "into" or what the networks are feeding the people - for higher ratings and more money. I had to laugh a few times... some of the questions were so stupid and ridiculous. (Sarcastic non-supportive humor, of course - against the various areas of "interest", not to the woman trying to do her job. She was pretty good handling me, actually.)
Anyway, I did interrupt her and asked if any commercial information for the Super Bowl was on this survey, and she didn't know "anything about it". So, I said, "got room for notes, comments/opinions there"? She DID. And I DID... "EXPRESS" my opinion on this crap - all of it. The religious right, the politics with the Republicans and networks, and so on.
I went after Fox too. Have CBS and Fox gotten married and I missed it - or just lying in bed together?
Actually, I made comments throughout the whole survey - that I could hear her typing notes on.
It was strange, but I was glad to have such an easy opportunity to express my distaste with that network right now. (I still wonder if it was the G. Beck show calling though!)
So, on and on,
it goes...
