Thoughtnami™

“There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them, this is an opportunity. Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!” - The Doctor, "Cold Blood" ( Doctor Who [2005] 5x9) DISCLAIMER: The following is Part One of a nine-part alternate history series about the history of Doctor Who if it was an American-made production rather than a British production. It's purely speculative and a work of fiction, although some real-world elements were included and presented for realistic situations and scenarios. Neither this series nor its author are connected to nor reflect the views and opinions of BBC Studios (the owner of the Doctor Who franchise) or any entity or persons mentioned and does not mean to infringe on the copyrights and trademarks of those parties. - JH Prologue: The Nail For want of a nail the shoe w...

The following was originally published at POST as "There Should Be A National Television Registry" on January 3, 2023. - jh I have a modest proposal to celebrate the television medium historically on the federal level. Do you know how there's an annual list of films inducted into the National Film Registry (2022's list is quite eclectic)? The group responsible for that is the National Film Preservation Board (the NFPB). Formed in 1988, the Library of Congress-based agency has selected films that are deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Similarly, a National Recording Preservation Board (the NRPB) at the LoC does the same for sound recordings such as speeches and music in National Recording Registry.   It is important to preserve our media history, and the NFPB and NRPB do that on the federal level. That said, there should be a similar federal-level board that preserves culturally, historically or aesthetically significant Americ...

Starting today, I'm putting up a few of my older articles I wrote for my Post account.  For those who wonder what Post was, think Twitter, but for journalists and writers who talked a lot about anything. Considering I liked to do that, this was a draw for me. Sadly, Post didn't last and ended earlier in 2024. I'm not going to repost everything I made there (a few were a little too personal), just a small selection of Post articles that still resonate and seem like a good read. Enjoy the following, originally published as " A Public (Television) Embarrassment" on December 19, 2022.  - jh.  I was thinking about how cable television was once used as a tool against public television by Congress only to become irrelevant in educational programming by the turn of the century.  It all began where a lot of weird modern media trends began - the 1990s.  Back in the 1990s, politicians threatened to cut public broadcasting funding and pushed broadcast networks to provide th...

Okay, that was a bit of an overreaction.  I'm tired.  I don't think I can do this anymore. I'm tired. I'm done. I feel broken. I can't do this anymore.  The internet isn't the place I first stepped into back when I first got online in 1996. This isn't the same internet I used to log on a dial-up modem when I got my first home computer in 1997. This isn't the same internet I started my first really successful webpage on GeoCities back in 1998. This isn't the same internet I found a great community of friends back in 1999.  This isn't the same internet I found the love of my life over a decade ago. This isn't the same internet I found many friends through Twitter back in 2008. That internet is gone.  GeoCities died a long time ago. My old webpage is history. That old community has devolved into a group of whiners.  The love of my life died almost three years ago.  The site formerly known as Twitter is now just a white supremacist playground. wh...