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I'm just glancing through my TIVO of yesterday morning's show.
Solid gold fittings on Rolls Royces for the persnickety gazillionaires, The wonderful beneficence of the visionary who gives away $1000 a day to what he considers worthy endeavors. The latest thing in wrist technology. Nostalgia for the hyper-consumerism of the post WWII boom. Art made of defaced currency.
The "you get what you pay for" philosophy of the world's apparently most uncomfortable airline, is especially galling, since flying for many people is a necessity now, not a choice. (Oh, I guess you could walk)... And yes, they charge for water..
If you want a window into the self-reverential world of the 1%, this is the show for you.
Oh . . ps rich people, tip EVERYONE, often and well.
liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)They are flying first class on planes that don't charge or taking their own private jet. The ones getting screwed are those of us who have to fly for business. All so some airline executives can get rich.
I don't fly for pleasure any more, I am too cheap.
mulsh
(2,959 posts)No one deserves that fatuous ass in the morning.
Charles Kuralt is rollin in a grave somewhere. Sad to hear the decline continues. I hope they have at least retained the final segment with a brief moment in nature unencumbered by narration.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)I know he had an odd private life, but I loved his laid-back demeanor and the slow and easy pace of the show.
It also had some damn good journalism about things that were of real interest to a variety of viewers.
I stopped watching it shortly after Kuralt's death because I felt like the producers (or someone) were trying to jazz it up too much.
When I watched it about a year ago, I noticed from its content and from its advertising that its demographic seemed to be a more upper-crust sort than I remember.