Summit Up 09-05-10: Where television is hated

Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column bored with television. What's wrong with us? The programming is intended to deliver what the audience most craves. But we find ourselves madly flipping through channels through nothing but garbage. Animal Planet, for example, was running nothing but "Pit Boss" from Saturday afternoon until the wee hours of Sunday morning ...

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