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Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.

Tuesday, February 25, 2003

Is it just me, or does fifteen minutes seem a lot shorter than it used to be?

(AP) MSNBC fired Phil Donahue on Tuesday, abruptly ending the veteran talk show host's return to television after six months of poor ratings.

[...] "We're proud of the program and we're disappointed that the show was not able to attract the viewership we had hoped for and expected," said Erik Sorenson, MSNBC president.

Well, you know, the number of lobotomized research primates has declined markedly in the past few years.

[...] The show's failure is "a footnote" to Donahue's career, [television news consulting firm ADT Research head Andrew] Tyndall said. "His legacy is unharmed," he said. "He invented an entire genre of television."

Yes, I believe that was the one that gave rise to the term "vast wasteland."

Buh-bye, Phil.

posted by Terry at 4:10:00 PM

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