{"id":1586,"date":"2007-07-15T09:21:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T14:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/dis-credit\/"},"modified":"2007-07-15T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T14:22:09","slug":"dis-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/dis-credit","title":{"rendered":"Dis-credit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought the DVDs of the first 2 seasons of News Radio<\/a> a few months back. Amazon had it for around $15 (it’s $30 as I check now). It’s one of those shows that I never caught regularly, but every rerun I’ve stumbled across has made me laugh pretty hard. So, since we had a double-strikeout last night with Netflix — Art School Confidential<\/a> (terrible: we gave up and turned it off after 40 minutes) and For Your Consideration<\/a> (even worse: we gave up after 10 minutes) — we decided to go back to Foley, Tierney, Hartman, et al. and have some guaranteed laughs.<\/p>\n

There are only two problems with watching News Radio<\/em> nowadays, and they’re both in the credits:<\/p>\n

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and<\/p>\n

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To paraphrase Tom Petty, I can’t decide which is sadder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought the DVDs of the first 2 seasons of News Radio a few months back. Amazon had it for around $15 (it’s $30 as I check now). It’s one of those shows that I never caught regularly, but every rerun I’ve stumbled across has made me laugh pretty hard. So, since we had a … <\/p>\n

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