Every once in a while, Jimmy Kimmel would run a segment on his show called, ‘Excellence in Reporting’, silly captured moments from around the country of news anchors saying the darndest things, recently I have been trying to shame two news programs by commenting on WCBS-TV News and CBS This Morning, for their overuse of hair dyes and wigs, a closer look at Kimmel’s segments reveals, phony hair dyed hair and wigs can be seen all over in the countries television newsrooms, begging the question, what do they have to do with televison journalism, it’s as if journalism must take a back seat to all that visual fluff, and it does every time, hands down…what seems to be missing is the comic cream pie in the face, but give them time…if it will help increase the rating numbers…thy will be done…in the future?

Yes, I did watch the show case debate between Andrew Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon, as predicted everyone that appeared on camera did so in dyed hair. Now the rundown, Andrew Cuomo, is 60-years-old, did anyone expect him to appear as a 60-year-old with even a smattering of gray hair, I didn’t, Cynthia Nixon, an actress, all her professional  life, part of her general appearance has been to some degree appearing in dyed hair, Marcia Kramer has been appearing in dyed hair since leaving the Daily News to dip her toe into television journalism, Maurice DuBois has, I think just started appearing on WCBS-TV News as of two weeks ago, when I first noticed his dyed hair, perhaps in prep for this debate appearance. WCBS Channel 2 news has become a hot bed of local news dye heads having to be the lead to the all-time king of fake dye heads on broadcast morning news television, CBS This Morning, like the locals, is head to toe bathed in head fakery.

Finally, if I were to tell you that placing toxic chemicals on your head weekly, so close to the brain allowing even a minute amount of seepage may prove harmful long-term, any high profit earning industry, whose sole mission are profits not human health, will employee a cade of experts to confirm no harm here, move on, much like the tobacco industry and chemical pesticide industries did and are doing before millions got ill and died from known and unknown causes.

I, like a lot of people have ‘Googled’ myself, was surprised by my ranking at the top of a page, thinking, I must be very popular, I’m not, Google was just doing what a search engine is supposed to do, delivering your (often) search subject results first, at the top of a page, a paid response result or not, if a search engine didn’t do that, who would use that search engine? nobody…So, even if there is a commercial viewing cost much like free televison, so what, on the other hand, there is always upfront cable costs instead, your choice, if you want ‘free search’, pay for it with your eyes, or cut Google a check for each and every search…again, it’s your choice…

All during my younger years as a growing child, a hot bowl of cereal, it was, what’s for breakfast, even during the summer months, from Wheatena, to Cream of Wheat, to Oatmeal, a hot bowl of something was it. Then one day in the 1950’s or 60’s my mother brought home our first plastic bowls with the instructions to never put anything hot into them, especially soups and cereals. Little did I know, or anyone else for that matter realize, that plastic would some day be our doom here on earth, as the chemists of the chemical companies raked in billions with licensing and manufacture’s fees. Fast forward to day, it seems every living creature on earth has become ingested with micro particles of plastic, the population has become so dire, we earthlings are now exploring other options, like finding another planet to spoil. Recent encounters with intelligent life from other worlds welcomed us as immigrants but was told upfront to please leave our plastics at home.

There may never be a good time to die, especially if its your time that has come. But if there is by chance some greater being calling the shots, the timing of this passing good not have been better in the contrasting of two persons, one currently, one having been lived in America, simply by them both having once existed at the same time, that can’t be helped pointing to the irony in the contrast, as a lesson well learned for those of us being left behind, with more life still to be lived. Of what one can choose how a life should be lived and how one is not to be lived, its only in their passing can the true contrast be witnessed. As for me, in my life time, I can only remember tearing up with the passing of two politicians, Robert Kennedy, suddenly, and now, over time, John McCain…

A musical recording artist releases a piece of music for the ear, just as important, if not more so, an accompanying visual for the eyes. On the 29^th of August 2018, the candidates for Governor of the State of New York, will appear in open debate, because its to be televised, the candidates, the news questioners, everyone that will be appearing on camera will be dressed in their best hair dye, this is my prediction, hope not to be off the mark just a few days before the debate. The televised debate will be sinocast by WCBS-TV News channel 2 NYC, whose entire on-air talent are dye heads, that’s 100%, oh wait, there is on occasion, the appearance of Tony Tantillo, who does not dye his hair, is a food expert, but I digress, now back to basics, it’s assumed this news program’s  uppity viewer numbers are based on the fake hair dying of all their news anchors, reporters, even the weather and sports contributors, at least those with hair that can be dyed. A promo photo of the entire on-air broadcasters on the side of a bus, remember these are supposed to be serious journalists, but most times, appear like the population cast in elaborate streaking blond dyed hair and make-up, as if of a reality entertainment television show, with visions of hookers and pimps.

 First the egg, then the chicken, first the music then the video, first the anchor, then the hair dyes.

Anyone interested in making a financial killing on Wall Street would be wise to up their investing in those companies, that are heavy in the manufacturing of hair care products, chiefly, hair dying and grooming. I predict a run on such products in the market place as the damaging news of this American President increases, as an unindicted co-conspirator, prompting all television journalists and politicians, jockeying to appear on televison at every turn, both male and female, wanting to appear as youthful as any hair fakery product can provide. The natural occurrence of gray hair will suddenly become as rare as at anytime in history, except during the Great Depression, when anything other than food and shelter, was an out of reach luxury, and vanity was of little concern when keeping warm during those long cold winter nights as it then was.

There once upon a time was a difference between a televison journalist and a televison politician, the separation was based on the amount of hair dye employed in appearance, they both are now addicted to the practice on an massive scale, unless one dare to look closely enough, no one is able to tell them apart; is that a practicing journalist or practicing politician playing one on televison, talking or just their marketing manager pushing them forward, indulging and including them in appearance sympathies?

Is anyone watching the shade of Jim Cramer’s goatee change from day to day? I am…       

An upcoming NBC televison series, Manifest, is about airline passengers, not knowing that they have been missing for over five years while only experiencing a few hours of travel time. A little like watching another NBC series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which I recently sampled, knowing that its been a few years since I last encountered, two of its cast members in their current roles, Mariska Hargitay and Ice T, in what seemed like a blink of an eye, these characters have not aged one bit, oh, they do appear a little heavier, but no noticeable age related gray hair, Hargitay, being female, none was expected, but, T, being male, I did. I realize, continuity of character appearance is as important as any story line in a continuing televison series, but still in my view, a little reality would go a long way in character development instead of the standard, never changing character appearance, into an stretchable of an hour into years as if that’s possible even in a fantasy. In some television shows children are allowed to grow up or are simply replaced, that is never the case with adult roles, unless a replacement is warranted because of an actor’s death or illness.

At a small Friday night dinner party, the whole table ruptured in loud laughter with the following revelation, I only hope my retelling is able to do it justice. A co-op building in the upper Bronx has for years been able to very carefully screen the buyers, keeping them to a very narrow ethnicity, well until just last month. A recent college grad type looking couple, on appearance seem to be able to past their very restrictive appearance test, was invited to purchase a top floor apartment, so they did. What the governing building board committee did not know, nor could they ever know, is of the diversity of the couple’s family and friends. So, it was not unusual, for some long-time residents for the very first time in this building on weekends and sometime late at night, having to spend a few anxious jittery moments, in a small enclosed elevator with people of who knows what ethnic background,  some in extreme religious or cultural garb, at least until the next building shareholders committee meeting is able to find an excuse or reasoning for their eviction, and voting them out, making up some mitigation that will be able to withstand what could be a long term pending lawsuit. It has to be noted that open hostility only invites a hardening of ‘stay put’ newly purchasers, hoping for an expensive ‘please go’ buyout payment…first the table went silent for a long time, continued eating, then opened with loud rowdy laughter all around, that could even be heard as far away as Queens County…

I don’t care how many higher education degrees at the university level, that you hoped would prepare you for an long  outstanding career in broadcast news, must know by now, it was all for naught, unless you agreed to appear on televison reading and delivering the news, with a head full of fake dyed hair, even your journalistic integrity, is being called into question, has come to mean little or nothing, at this stage of your dumbed down career in broadcast news, as just another element on the rung of the ladder of network show business, the pay is good, so, it must be ok? Otherwise, why would they pay me so much, I forget, this is show business and viewer numbers, bringing in large advertising dollars, add up and account for everything…means success, nothing else, your head of hair dye is your worth…and please don’t call me a broadcast news bimbo, can’t a girl just make a living, be it a not so honest one…