“We’re sorry we killed off this thing that you like, even though we knew as we were doing it that it was a thing you like and that killing it off would likely made you rage-bomb our phone lines. Here the thing is back again, and the only difference is that now you know about the bottomless contempt we feel for you, and how little conviction we put into any of our decisions.”
Is there anybody with half a brain at a newspaper that doesn’t know not to fuck with the TV listings? God almighty, my old editor damn near got murdered in the parking lot by angry senior citizens just because he’d changed the ORDER of the listings. If he’d pulled them entirely our building would have just been a smoking crater.
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