There was once a time when the biggest defenders of Meredith Whitney's over the top, doomsday prediction that 2011 would be the year that municipal bonds defaulted in cataclysmic proportions were to be found at a certain business television network headquartered in New Jersey looking to have her appear on-air in order to goose ratings.
Its reports on the UK include tales from austerity-hit Britain, trenchant criticism of the "war on terror" and views on capitalism more likely to be found at an Occupy rally than on a television screen.
When I found myself staring at a television at 10 30 a.m. on August 5, 2012, I felt like a betrayed 8-year-old again.
They even found a television on the street.
If necessary, explain that a news ticker, usually found at the bottom of the television screen on news channels, is running text with news tidbits, weather advisories, sports scores or other types of information.
Within three weeks, she found a fit -- at a television production company, Globalvision Inc., with a good product and a need for someone to turn it into a business.
It's tough to find a television show, at least of the contest or reality show variety, that is content to let viewers just watch the thing the old-fashioned way.
And, anyway, Wales were playing France at rugby, and I needed to find a television.
Roseana Sarney's presidential bid was killed in 2002 when images of half a million dollars in banknotes found at her husband's office were broadcast on television.
Find a television screen, popcorn and strap yourself in.
