...a blogsters BEEF with USA Today article...

…I jotted the following down on 5/17/07 (that was Thursday and was to remind me to do something:

- remember to mock USA Today article about “7th Heaven” (USA Today 11A)…below is the article...enjoy...

Slice of 'Heaven' on TV provided lessons, soothed souls

It's about time 7th Heaven got some media attention. The show began when I was in second grade. Now I am about to graduate from high school. Through the years, the show has guided me with its true-to-life plots. Unfortunately, I don't think enough viewers gave the show a chance while it was still on TV (" '7th Heaven' says amen after record 11 years," Life, Friday). My family was drawn to the show because it mirrored our lives so well. Believe it or not, there are parents out there who are still married and they don't get divorced or have affairs. While so many other television shows portray disinterested or self-absorbed parents, 7th Heaven dared to be different. The parents on the show — the Rev. Eric and Annie Camden, who were portrayed wonderfully by Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks — were like real parents. They punished their kids for lying, breaking curfews and getting bad grades. And oddly enough, at times 7th Heaven even got more viewers than the WB's One Tree Hill with its scandalous plots and childish parental antics. While some criticized the show for being too preachy, all 7th Heaven did was try to encourage people to do the right thing. Instead of being like every other show filled with violence, sex and drugs, 7th Heaven tackled issues such as voting in elections, the Taliban's treatment of women before 9/11, bullying and countless other important topics. I learned a lesson from every show. It is unfortunate that 7th Heaven did not get a lot of critical acclaim — not because I believe it should have stayed on television forever, but because I think many viewers would have gotten a lot out of it had they given it a chance. Perhaps, they'll watch it in syndication.

Melissa Marie Sneed
Kingsport, Tenn.
Page 11A


…I couldn’t agree more with senior high schooler Melissa Marie Sneed of Kingsport Tennessee…I wonder what kids of that town do for fun…and you knew I would agree…please scroll down, or find link, to April 15th Sunday Mo Jo...has little snippet about me raving about "7th Heaven"...enjoy...not only should more kids be watching this show, but more parents should…the Camden parents know parenthood isn’t easy…tell me about it…finding Bin Laden is impossible…I can’t even find my kid…creatin’ some heavy duty baby-momma drama….believe that…However, they Camdens pull through and always figure out how to direct their children’s lives by the end of each episode…talk about reality television…if only real parents would write scripts for their children to follow…this generation being born into a world when the “Real World” already existed, and grew up believing that was the real world their parents told them to “just wait for”…if “7th Heaven” isn’t an exact reflection of all American lives the I don’t know what is…just ask New Orleans’ citizens (not refugees…or fugees, Steven Col-bert)…and I know what you people are thinking …I know…you’re thinking if this blogster doesn’t resemble Martin Luther King Jr. then I don’t know who does…Rev. Martin, Rev. Camden (daddio from 7th Heaven) and Rev. Run have been absorbed into this here blog like osmosis…and I suggest we force our democracy to watch “7th Heaven” after the pledge of allegiance, “under God”, every morning and every night before we take a nap for the night…then “7th Heaven” is osmosisized and America can become a reflection of what it already is and if there is a mirror across America there is no doubt we would see the Camden family…tell me that picture above isn't what New Orleans' families were doing before Katrina...

...above the USA Today article about “7th Heaven” is a comic about our new war czar entering the “War Room” that resembles a teenagers bedroom their mom is yelling at to clean up or they won’t be able to go see the new Spiderman…it’s a mess in case that metaphor sucked…and I think that room is a better reflection of American households than the corniest show ever, “7th Heaven”…it doesn’t matter what race or class, or let’s even say country, all families resemble that room at some point…at least mentally…New Orleans speaking, physically, but nobody speaks about that anymore…however, all families try to hide the fact they actually have real problems…problems similar to those on that show…but unlike the show, we can't say cut when something goes awry…film a family watching “7th Heaven” and then afterwards acting like they just learned something, and then they’ll go back to exactly the way they were living before…now that would be reality tv…