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TV Turnoff Week? No way!!
I’ve always been offended by the concept of TV Turnoff Week — which arrives with absolutely no fanfare next week (April 23-27).
I’m all in favor of turning off really stupid TV programming (hello, “Dog the Bounty Hunter!”), but ditching the entire medium? Ridiculous. Television, for those who choose carefully, is packed with news, information and fine entertainment.
If you blacken your TV screen next week, you’ll miss the return of “Heroes” on Monday, the revival of “Bill Moyers Journal” on Wednesday and the season finale of “30 Rock” on Thursday. Why deny yourself? Plus, the NBA playoffs are beginning.
TV Turnoff Week is the brainchild of Adbusters, which is convinced that all television is evil and unhealthy.
This year, apparently to prove they’re fighting a pointless and useless battle, they have created some TV ads to make their case. Get this straight now: Adbusters is running ads on TV telling people to turn off the TV.
That’s a pretty bizarre concept to wrap your brain around, isn’t it?
Hair today, gone tomorrow
Sanjaya Malakar swooped onto “The Tonight Show” Thursday night, grinning madly and prompting lots of odd expressions on Jay Leno’s face.
The faux-hawk boy-wonder, who finally got the boot Wednesday night on “American Idol,” says he plans to pursue acting, modeling, singing “and other performing opportunities” (hmmm … one can only wonder).
Does this mean he’s dropping out of high school? He’s only 17 years old. It’s quite possible that he has an exaggerated opinion of his show biz career prospects, so it might be a good idea to at least graduate from high school.
As if we needed further evidence of the wacky world we live in, Sanjaya will be attending the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington on Saturday night.
Obviously that fine journalistic group has loose membership requirements. Sanjaya will be the guest of People magazine, which covers the White House only when the First Daughters get into trouble, Laura is promoting a cause or the first dog does something truly hilarious.
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By Raven Woods
April 23, 2007 12:24 AM | Link to this
Sanjaya said that he had his GED. Were you not paying attention?