Hey I was watching that

I want to officially put a stop to those stupid tickers on the bottom of the screen during teleevison shows. Those tickers that come up and give us breaking weather and news reports during a program we are trying to watch to escape the world.

The thing is that in this day and age there are many ways to get information, I do not need to have a little ticker on the bottom of my television. There is the Internet with literally millions of websites with up to the second information. There are cable television channels devoted to non-stop 24/7 news coverage, nowadays even my cell phone gives me breaking news and weather. I also have windows and can look outside to see that it is storming out. I am also already indoors and do not need to be told to seek shelter immediately. Usually these "breaking news" events are worthless and don't change my life in any way.

I was watching Lost on Wednesday and they interrupted the show 4 times with a ticker that a verdict had been reached in this trial in Manitowoc County (80 miles away). Hey, I don't care. The fact of the matter is that I don't care. The kid gave a 2 hour confession and then a while later recanted the confession. Seems like a pretty easy case. Why interrupt a show to tell us that a verdict has been reached. They didn't even tell us the verdict, just that one had been reached. I could have jumped on the Internet and found the verdict in 2 minutes if I really cared. Stop trying to keep us glued to the television to watch the news after the show to see the verdict, if I really cared I could find the verdict a million different ways. The episode of Lost actually was featuring a good number of subtitles and the became very difficult to read when the ticker came on.

I watch these television shows to escape reality, for 30 or 60 minutes I want to pretend that the real world doesn't exist. Its all I've got left to hold onto, don't take this away from with your breaking news tickers.

Why don't we use commercial time to our advantage here. Put these tickers up during the commercials or take a quick 15 second break from the commercials and go in studio and have soemone telling us this breaking news or weather instead of having us have to read it.