If you haven't seen the current affairs show "Today Tonight" then think yourself very lucky and stop reading now. Alternatively you can read on and understand just how lucky you are. Current affairs shows have gone down the crapper. Bring back the good old days where journalists were out there reporting stuff that actually matters to people, and dying for it. Nowdays journalists sit in a studio and interview some dumbass celebrity who giggles about how much drugs they're doing, how much sex they're having and how much better they are than everyone else. Forgive me but that's less entertaining than watching a game of netball... which for the record is not very entertaining.
Today Tonight never even started out cool like some of the other shows that turned gay. Today Tonight started and continues to be garbage. Having tortured myself watching the show I lost so many braincells that all I could do was sit here like a jellybrain and dribble on my computer.. luckily a few episodes of JAG snapped me out of it.
Here's the day in day out format for Today Tonight.
1st story ... A stupid celebrity talks candidly about how stupid they are. (designed to hook all the idiots in the world in right from the start) This story is the headliner and takes up most the show as when you ask a celebrity about themselves, your ass better be on a seat because you'll still be there in 3 hours.
2nd Story .. A dog who's owners moved house and forgot to tell him so he ran 2,000 miles to be with them again only to realise they left him there on purpose and now they have a cat. (a real tear jerker... a dog probably does this once a week so it's an easy way to waste 10 minutes of air time because you can't find a real story.
3rd Story... A man complains like a little girl because his next door neighbour has 20cms of his land and the fence needs to be moved only the guy built a pool on the land already. SO it goes to court and the guy loses and screams injustice till we all want to punch him in the balls.
4th story - This story is almost always about a con man with a less than believable scheme that screws money of of gullible people who deserve it.. good luck to him. Mostly these people are desperate and are broke as hell yet they still think a man in a shiny suit will transform all their problems into the life they think they deserve. If you're stupid enough to be ripped off by a scam that an orangutan would pick a mile off then you deserve to have a 4th mortgage and you car repossessed.
So anyway the journalist and camera man chase the con man around and play hero while the guy denies it or says "no comment". Fascinating television.
5th story.. Sometimes this varies. It occasionally is about a giant pumpkin somebody grew but usually it's about some kid with cancer who's exploited by the network in an attempt to make us feel like they're altruistic and actually care about the poor bastard kid who's going to be dead in 2 weeks. How the parents are suckered into using their child like a piece of meat with short expiry date is beyond me. The only answer I can come up with is a huge sum of money.
They sign off with some cheeseball line like "please take care of yourselves" like they care.. though I suppose if the braindead members of society all die they'll have no audience. If they really cared about us they take themselves off the air and save us from their stupidity.
The worst thing is the show has won several made up awards and the dirtbag presenter:
is all smug about it. "I work on the best show, blah blah blah vommitization." The show sucks, it's just found the retard demographic of the public like a laser guided missile. Sadly they aren't a minority but we can only hope they're all sucked into losing their money "4th story style" ... then they won't be able to afford Tv's! YAY! NO more bullshit today tonight!
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