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The Disappearance of Saturday Morning

Posted by timothy on from the where's-your-brain-slug dept.

Ant writes "Saturday morning no longer means kids in front of TV sets across the country, glued to the latest in hip cartoons. Why? Gerard Raiti investigates the death of an era." As a former Saturday morning TV addict, this doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.

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  1. Re:Remember nothing by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There is a wide, yawning gulf between a father who takes an interest in his child's life in order to be a part of it, and a father still plays with (today they call it "collecting") toys because he never grew up in the first place.

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  2. Re:A new Era by Afrosheen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't know if having your kids drinking coffee at 7am with a bunch of faeries is an improvement over saturday morning cartoons or not.

    Let me know how it turns out.

  3. Does anyone else... by Sanity · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ...think that discussion of the "brand loyalty" of a 2 year old is a somewhat scary concept?

    Start the corporate brainwashing early I guess.