October 18th, 2009 
joel I’m dedicating this weeks open comment forum to The Balloon Boy, who while hanging out in a corrugated cardboard box in the garage attic of his suburban Denver home, sent the entire domestic news media complex into total hysteria.
Of course, even as we can ridicule the 24-hour cable channels for their lack of skepticism and journalistic depth during the developing story, they were in a no-win situation, as they couldn’t afford to not cover it.
We look under rocks here on Deep Background as a place to sound off or share the latest scoop in our media surroundings here in Erie. If you wish to private message me, send an e-mail to joel@nataliemedia.com or tweet @pressandtower.
Embrace the chaos!
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Looks like Jay Leno is singehandedly destroying the 11pm audience for NBC Affiliate newscasts:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-nbc-affils19-2009oct19,0,557820,full.story
What makes it even worse is NBC and its owner, GE, seem to be perfectly happy with “Leno” at 10pm!
I predict NBC won’t last another 5 years as a TV Network.
Maybe GE will be successful in selling a controlling interest in NBCU to someone with a clue how to run a network. Assuming such actually exists anymore.