90210 v. Parents TV Council, Part Three: People of God Spreading "Gossip?"
With a hearty hat tip (and a link in my left-hand column, wanna trade?) to the blog 90210Recaps.com, this tasty nugget from Joal Ryan at E! :
"I think it's fair to say that the CW has been a bad actor, particularly when it comes to Gossip Girl," said Dan Isett, director of public policy for the Parents Television Council.
Both Gossip Girl and 90210 are CW shows.
Last week, the network confirmed it wasn't sending out advance copies of 90210, which is scheduled to premiere Sept 2. The CW described the move as a "strategic marketing decision."
"We haven't assumed anything about the show," Isett said. "But I think that the CW has already demonstrated that they'll stoop to any level in a rather desperate attempt to build buzz."
So, Dan, let me get this right, the network hasn't sent out any screeners to anyone of future episodes, but based on your experience observing this network and another show they do, you are watching for this show to do the same.
Dude, that's called assuming.
And now, this video break where we learn about what happens when we assume.
Thank you, Felix Unger, for your profound words.
And spreading information based on assumption to reach a means that your opponent might consider malicious? That's gossip. Plus, your lies could be endangering the stock price of a corporation, and I think there are legal remedies for those you would oppose in that way.
From Dan Isett's bio at their site, it remarks that he is an expert in children's education, but his degrees are in History and Mass Communications. He lists a position with the Texas Home School Coalition, which sounds like a state gov't department, but is actually a ...
... according to the description of their site under their link in a Google search. That description comes from their meta-tag for the site but never appears as text on the site itself.
Hmmm. Sounds a bit ... duplicitous. Whaddaya think?
So, this guy's expertise in children's education comes from ... working for a watchdog group that makes sure that parents in Texas who want to teach creationism to their kids at home as the truth and as science have a voice inthe Texas legislature.
Why are these people still revisiting the Scopes Trial, anyway?
Again, it's an example of the any means necessary, whether moral or not, attitude of these people to get what they want, which they believe they have some Deity-granted permission to use.
You see, if you don't know that the PTC (and for that matter, Focus on the Family) are religion-driven, which their names certainly wouldn't tell you, you might not realize that once again they are trying to co-opt govermnmental structures (like the FCC, like the Supreme Court, like Congress) to carry out the rules of their religion. Is it because they don't have the strength and personal terpitude to follow their own rules?
Or is it to force the rest of us to believe exactly what they do? Because if it's the former it's unAmerican.
And, guess what, if it's the latter, it's unAmerican, too. Kinda Talibanesque, in fact.
More, including a clip from this week's show, after the jump.
Gee, if the PTC had just not started up with the show, I would have been able to ignore it after the pilot, but now I've watched two eps just despite them and I'm hooked into the Taylor-Silver (Taylor-Silvers in image right) family drama.
And boy, it's gonna get even better when they finally admit to us that Dylan is that four-year-old's dad. And then when he shows up, during May Sweeps (or earlier), Ben Lyons and the rest of the fans of the original will ... well, they'll explode!
I'm even posting a preview clip, all because of Tim Winter, Dan Isett and the Parents Television Council.
Folks, don't ever not watch something because someone tells you it's bad. Make your own mind up about that. And then turn off the TV and leave the other people who like it alone.
I sat in that same exact booth when I was there two months ago. I'll post the pic when I find it.
