Nuts TV demise heralds more serious times

Few are likely to admit to missing Nuts TV, following the news that wet t-shirts are to be replaced with CNN.

Just as serious times call for serious people, so they also call for serious media.

When times are good people pay less attention to hard news and are more likely to indulge frivolity and so the last the decade has seen the market for celebrity gossip and nonsense expand to a ridiculous extent. The global financial crisis, on the other hand, leaves people anxious for real news.

Posted at : November 7th, 2008 - 4:07 pm
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I surely am not missing Nuts TV. Never really was into it…

Stella / June 3rd, 2009, 10:48 am / #

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