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The Story Behind Spring Break
Ever since I matriculated through college in the late-eighties and early-nineties--I realize I'm showing my age-- the media has used this right of passage as an opportunity to warn the youth of America of the dangers that lurk beneath the fun and frivolity. To throw a bucket of ice water on the party, TV networks normally assign a camera crew or three to fly-down from their gloomy New York headquarters, south to the sun-splashed beaches of Florida where fit college coeds in bikinis mingle with beer infused dudes out for (gasp) sexual excitement.
Since rational youthful behavior is not allowed to be videoed, the news teams must occasionally employ clandestine and devious methods in order to make their social arguments. For example, to demonstrate a reckless disregard for COVID social distancing among twenty-somethings, some of the networks use super-telephoto zoom lens shots of South Beach. This creates a distorted illusion that groups of sun worshipers, dozens of yards apart on the beach, look as though they are piled one atop each other like sardines. Gee that's not nice. Meanwhile this past weekend up at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Country Club in Orlando, tons o' beer-filled golf fans, tightly packed one atop another around the 18th green, cheered-on to victory the mysteriously muscle-bloated Bryan DeChambeau, winner of the PGA event. TV cameras didn't need any zoom lenses for that.
Another clever technique in the dirty bag-of-tricks many network news outlets deploy on Spring Break is to interview dumb hot college coeds; impossibly dense, stupid, but really-really cute babes in bikinis. I mean come-on, how the heck did they ever pass high school? College, no way? Viewers at home derisively laugh at their responses to simple history questions...until they come to realize they are sitting in a living room in cloudy, boring Cleveland while the hotties on Spring Break get to bask in the warmth of Florida.
Miraculously, after Spring Break 99.9999 percent of these young people will safely return back to their schools, colleges and universities. And the networks will have satisfyingly high ratings to show advertisers.
Ever since I matriculated through college in the late-eighties and early-nineties--I realize I'm showing my age-- the media has used this right of passage as an opportunity to warn the youth of America of the dangers that lurk beneath the fun and frivolity. To throw a bucket of ice water on the party, TV networks normally assign a camera crew or three to fly-down from their gloomy New York headquarters, south to the sun-splashed beaches of Florida where fit college coeds in bikinis mingle with beer infused dudes out for (gasp) sexual excitement.
Since rational youthful behavior is not allowed to be videoed, the news teams must occasionally employ clandestine and devious methods in order to make their social arguments. For example, to demonstrate a reckless disregard for COVID social distancing among twenty-somethings, some of the networks use super-telephoto zoom lens shots of South Beach. This creates a distorted illusion that groups of sun worshipers, dozens of yards apart on the beach, look as though they are piled one atop each other like sardines. Gee that's not nice. Meanwhile this past weekend up at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Country Club in Orlando, tons o' beer-filled golf fans, tightly packed one atop another around the 18th green, cheered-on to victory the mysteriously muscle-bloated Bryan DeChambeau, winner of the PGA event. TV cameras didn't need any zoom lenses for that.
Another clever technique in the dirty bag-of-tricks many network news outlets deploy on Spring Break is to interview dumb hot college coeds; impossibly dense, stupid, but really-really cute babes in bikinis. I mean come-on, how the heck did they ever pass high school? College, no way? Viewers at home derisively laugh at their responses to simple history questions...until they come to realize they are sitting in a living room in cloudy, boring Cleveland while the hotties on Spring Break get to bask in the warmth of Florida.
Miraculously, after Spring Break 99.9999 percent of these young people will safely return back to their schools, colleges and universities. And the networks will have satisfyingly high ratings to show advertisers.
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