Well … the joke is two-pronged, neither of which is tremendously funny. One, other shows are frequently interrupted for the news, so it would be vaguely amusing if the news itself were interrupted. And two, the news can be tedious or upsetting, so it’s not always fun to watch. When you apply logic to the scene — like, for instance, a remote control that allows you to turn off the nose — you lose the limited humor that’s present in the joke. So, stop doing that.
He wants the news to act like Pandora, which will occasionally pause and ask if you want to keep listening. The main reason is so the service won’t keep streaming to an empty room.
He doesn’t want to watch, but he also doesn’t have the willpower
to stop unless prompted.
Netflix does that, too, if the service starts to think you’ve binge-watched too many episodes of something.
There are a number of services which will pop up a “you still there?”, because they have to pay for content but don’t get paid unless they can show an ad impression.
But the point is that the news nowadays is so often a downer that people might actively want to avoid it. The easy way to do this doesn’t involve a remote control, contrary to the editorial position of this fine establishment. It’s this… don’t turn it on in the first place.
In its place, may I offer the following general purpose “newscast”:
Today, Congress did something stupid. Not to be outdone, the Tweeter-in-Chief did TWO stupid things, which caused a number of ultimately insignificant commentators to either applaud or attack them. In sports, some teams played same games that are ultimately meaningless, and some teams won and some other teams lost.
In the weather,it didn’t rain in southern California, unless it did and there was flooding.
In business news, rich people got richer today, while poorer people continued to be poor.
This has been the news.
I wish this book would move all the words up and down the page a few times every time I turn the page.
I wish this book would pop up an ad every time I turn the page.
I don’t get it.
Te joke is that Netflix does that, and the cartoonist is questioning why anyone would want that feature.
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Well … the joke is two-pronged, neither of which is tremendously funny. One, other shows are frequently interrupted for the news, so it would be vaguely amusing if the news itself were interrupted. And two, the news can be tedious or upsetting, so it’s not always fun to watch. When you apply logic to the scene — like, for instance, a remote control that allows you to turn off the nose — you lose the limited humor that’s present in the joke. So, stop doing that.
He wants the news to act like Pandora, which will occasionally pause and ask if you want to keep listening. The main reason is so the service won’t keep streaming to an empty room.
He doesn’t want to watch, but he also doesn’t have the willpower
to stop unless prompted.
Netflix does that, too, if the service starts to think you’ve binge-watched too many episodes of something.
There are a number of services which will pop up a “you still there?”, because they have to pay for content but don’t get paid unless they can show an ad impression.
But the point is that the news nowadays is so often a downer that people might actively want to avoid it. The easy way to do this doesn’t involve a remote control, contrary to the editorial position of this fine establishment. It’s this… don’t turn it on in the first place.
In its place, may I offer the following general purpose “newscast”:
Today, Congress did something stupid. Not to be outdone, the Tweeter-in-Chief did TWO stupid things, which caused a number of ultimately insignificant commentators to either applaud or attack them. In sports, some teams played same games that are ultimately meaningless, and some teams won and some other teams lost.
In the weather,it didn’t rain in southern California, unless it did and there was flooding.
In business news, rich people got richer today, while poorer people continued to be poor.
This has been the news.
I wish this book would move all the words up and down the page a few times every time I turn the page.
I wish this book would pop up an ad every time I turn the page.
I don’t get it.
Te joke is that Netflix does that, and the cartoonist is questioning why anyone would want that feature.