Inside Edition
 

Eh, boy... just saw the commercial for Inside Edition tonight...not going to be pretty. The commercial showed some thoroughbreds going down around the turn. You can see where this story is heading.

They were eager to sensationalize the Luck story. That coverage was stunningly ignorant.

Guess they've given up flogging Whitney Houston.

I can't see where it's going to be anything but one-sided and pretty painful to watch.

Myopic...that's the word!!! You can't tell me that you don't learn anything from ATR;)

Who with an IQ of higher than 12 watches Inside Edition?

i didn't even know it was still on the air.

I watched it out of curiousity and I'm not even sure what point they were trying to make. They focused mostly on breakdowns and showed repeated video of horses breaking down on track. They mentioned drug use but only pointed out snake venom and viagra, with no mention of the fact that snake venom is a banned substance (I'm assuming viagra would be but I wasnt even aware it was something that was used). And they only interviewed one person, the CEO of Santa Anita. Overall it was just bad reporting. To the uninformed it basically said horse racing is bad and kills animals and people.

So Fox news produced it?

No one. However, that can be a dangerous crowd.

Every time I see these shows it reminds me of this song.................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46bBWBG9r2o

Unfortunately that doesn't matter, since the effective IQ of the population, is declining. That's part of the problem facing our sport: why analyze and handicap when you can simply pull a slot machine lever?

"Jersey Shore", "The Bachelor", and other TV shows are booming while dramas with any depth are going away.

We are becoming an idiocracy, and intellectual pursuits of any type are fading.

Speaking of unnecessary footage -- how many times did NBC have to show Barbaro's breakdown during the Florida Derby telecast this past weekend?

It's the gift that keeps on giving...Like Herpes

'Truer words have never been spoken'...............sad indeed.

The hell with the sport, that's the problem facing the Country.

:tro:

Wait, you have to remember that this show gave us that great public intellectual, Bill O'Reilly. It was Fox News before Fox News ever existed.

Speaking of which, does anyone know if The Factor is running in this year's Derby yet???:D