Todd is very much correct in that it is a structural problem that can't just be laid at the feet of bad journalists and producers. Recognizing that the incentives in breaking news in the modern news cycle push towards misinformation is not cynical. Because however pissed we get, things are only going to get worse…

Say what you will, these current heads have stuck with some beloved programming despite piss poor performance. Keeping 30 Rock, Community, Parks and Rec, and Friday Night Lights around more than excuses the Conan debacle on balance.

Happy Days existed in a world of 3 major networks and no cable to speak of outside of select areas and very few households. There is much more choice now if people don't like a show initially.

To engage this idea seriously, how do you propose that TV production and distribution is paid for, unless you envision the end of either television (or internet TV) as an artistic medium? It can certainly be less centralized, but it still requires rather large amounts of capital to produce and distribute. Or do you…

Good thing the episode was over then, eh?

It seems that the Martells really divide fans. Some think Dorne is a distraction. Those people are BORING.

Marmots are kind of like Monkeys. Except not at all…

I mean, different strokes for different folks I guess, but I have a hard time understanding how two weeks at the Grand Canyon, even with family, can be referred to as boring. It's the Grand FUCKING Canyon. Two weeks staring at it sounds amazing.

Which is why American patent law and patent theory is BAD. Bad for consumers, bad for innovation, and bad for the economy. If you don;t take action on an idea, we shouldn't care who had it first. There needs to be more recognition of who first used and produced an idea, not who got to the patent office soon enough or…

True, and none of them founded nations based on the idea of Liberty and then built the most industrialized, permanent  and largest system of slave labor that had ever been. Chattel slavery in the colonies, and especially after the industrialization of cotton was without equal in size and scope and legal enforcement.…

Dude, the country was founded in the name of liberty, but with the major underpinning of chattel slavery. And its not like it was reflection of the times. Everyone at the time knew it was horrible, but it was super profitable and only became more so with the industrialization of cotton production.

Yeah, I have huge issues with TANF, the drug war, and the problematic use of prison labor. But comparing those things to chattel slavery cheapens all that was mentioned. Slavery was the biggest sin (of many) of the republic and it's end was monumental.

This. People aren't saying that there aren't misogynistic rappers, just that judging the entire genre by those artists while not applying the same standards to other broadly defined groups of artists or professionals is off-base.

@avclub-9079ea527e08a24dfad44e3302d5f091:disqus Holy false equivalency batman.You realize there is a difference between entertainers and policymakers, right? People are willing to forgive entertainers for a lot more, so far as forgive means listen to their music, because these people and their music doesn't have a…

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So, you are saying his review is a spoiler for a 9-year old movie? Statute of limitations on spoilers is at most 5 years. Rosebud was his sled.

@avclub-9079ea527e08a24dfad44e3302d5f091:disqus How about the times John Lennon beat the shit out of his first wife?

Beauty regimen, not beauty regiment. Its not a large unit of particularly attractive soldiers.

Apparently she left to become a tv writer, like many onion staffers.

Because tv writing pays better?