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Congressional Hearings Have you watched Congressional (or Senate) hearings lately?   I have.   They're not pretty. Unlike only a few decades ago, most Congressional interrogators come armed only with talking points or staff generated questions.   The quality is usually poor; the delivery automatic; the responses are either submissive or arrogant.   Television does not help the quality of the event, diminishing the findings mostly because it gives national exposure. We offer several categories of questioners.   Most are dedicated to various forms of grandstanding, emotional displays, partisan attacks, and irrational utterances. All questioners are given only a few minutes to make points or make questions. They must be quick. Nimble? Forget that. The List. A. Pepper spray – Offering a barrage of questions giving little or no time for answers. B. Passion fruit – I feel so intense about this injustice to the American people and want to make you accountable. You bad person

Like pearls in the ocean, talent is hard to find.   We   hear every day of the latest multi-billion dollar media company developing its own contents for streaming. Include Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Hulu, and more.   There are so many, you can find top-ten lists.    They are spending multiple billions on their ventures, making serials, documentaries, games, and films with large budgets.   Thus, in addition to Hollywood, cable and broadcast television, we have a host of Internet contenders.   It might be considered when only Hollywood and TV were the only sources of entertainment, there was a surprising number of flops and B-movies. Some TV series lasted only a few episodes before cancellation.   Some Hollywood movies never make it to the theaters but are sold off to the networks.   Why???   Talent.   There is just not enough. For the current crop of providers, talent is needed to create huge volumes of entertainment media.   One result is the large number of unscripted talk and

Hacking undone .  How to prevent hacking?  Take your system off the Internet.  This is exactly the situation with the 99 active nuclear power plants in the US.  Recent evidence establishes Russian hacking into US nuclear power plants. Among the targets this time, US officials say, the Wolf Creek nuclear plant in Burlington, Kansas.  (This, according to a recent report by NBC news.) But, and finally a wonderful but, the operational platforms of these plants are not hackable because they are off the net.  Perhaps the perps got emails and billing records, but not the plant operations.  Well done.   Might I suggest the creation of a second Internet channel, one not in any way connected to the main stream.  It should be built from the ground-up with no possibility of a breach built-in.  Televisions  and their commercials.   If you watch a TV show on commercial television, you get commercials about every 7-8 minutes.  The commercials last about three minutes, one after the other.  If