rafitorres:

Thanks so much, Google News, People Magazine and all other media outlets that apparently don’t know there’s this invention called “DVR” which allows you to watch TV shows one (or many) days after they air. Did you also go around telling people [SPOILER] after the opening weekend of The Sixth Sense? Right.

I was once on a cross-country flight during a critical game of the World Series. The pilot took the liberty of announcing the score over the PA system after each half-inning. And since the PA was also routed through the headset jacks in the seats, unless you were listening to your own iPod (or had really good earplugs), there was no escaping it.

I didn’t happen to care about that game, or baseball in general. But what about people who cared a lot? Wouldn’t they most likely be recording the game at home, or traveling to visit someone who was recording it for them? And for people who cared but not enough to want to see the game, how were the periodic updates of any interest? Wouldn’t they just look up the final score sometime after landing?

In other words, the pilot was providing marginally useful information only to people who sort of cared about baseball. He was hugely pissing off people who really cared, and annoying the living fuck out of everyone else.

So yeah. Reporting “entertainment results” like this makes no sense. You’re either ruining it for me, boring me, or telling me something I already know.