March Madness Revisited

Having my TV viewing schedule ONCE AGAIN messed with, I thought I would simply reprint my complaints from last year, since I expressed myself so well.

(This Curmudgeon Repor was originally published on 3/31/12)

I am so mad about this "madness" that I can hardly see straight.  As a curmudgeon, I don't even like it when US Presidents interrupt TV for various speeches, especially since rebutters and news "analysis" generally follow, adding nothing but tedium to the overall spectacle.

So I looked into this madness thing.  Apparently, it is nothing more than college basketball playoffs.  And this is worthy of interrupting my usual TV schedule?  Worse, there may have been a Matlock or Murder She Wrote marathon planned.  If I wanted to watch basketball, I would have gone to a game or subscribed to some weird college-covering cable channel.

But no - valuable major network time is squandered on this stuff.  This clearly demonstrates the value of "major network time."