Too much info on our TVs

It seems as if we just cannot obtain information fast enough these days.

On cable news programs we have banners of information at the top and bottom of the screen. If that isn’t enough, the station’s ID fills either the right or left bottom corner of the screen, some protruding high into the picture. Strange how these disappear during commercials.

Thank goodness for large-screen TVs. If you are lucky, you can sometimes see a pair of eyes peering underneath the top banner.

Sports programs are the same, maybe worse: too many breakaways showing the announcers making idle chatter in their booth while the action continues on the field.

Finally, one of our old reliable channels for children’s programming has added its own reality programs that no small child should view. Conformity, I suppose.

Let’s see, where did I put that old radio?

Granville Ferguson
Marshall, Mo.