Letter to NBC.com

Hi there,

Just letting you know that I'll never be coming to your site again. I had some nice classical music on to ease my sick child, then went to your site to see what the programming was going to be and

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Your oh-so-attention getting ad for The Poseidon Adventure woke up the kid, who is now screaming like hungry bats are gnawing out his eyes.

You may want to reconsider forcing people to listen to LOUD AUDIO immediately upon visiting your site, where, I'm guessing, the majority of your visitors are simply seeking information and not a chance to put their tachycardic grandmothers in the grave. Or maybe they are; I really can't speak for such odd people with such devious plans for their extended family.

Nevertheless, I was just looking for Law and Order information, not a reason to actually call Eliot Stabler, though perhaps I could, since, trust me, waking this kid up like that has got to be a crime, at least in some southern states; what if the kid really thinks that hungry bats are in his crib? You're right, 13 is probably too old for him to still be in a crib, but that's the kind of thing that happens when you raise your sister's kids on TV. No offense.

Needless to say I won't be back to the site...and now I won't even be able to watch the telly tonight, since you decided to advertise LOUDLY to my sister's child that a hackey remake of "The Poseidon Adventure" was going to attempt to pass for viable entertainment in the near future.

Hey, just a quick question: There have been, oh, about a skillion disaster movies made in the last 5 years or so; tell me frankly, as a devout member of the public that really enjoys disaster movies but has found himself really, really numbed by it all at this point (which can be found at TPTREDMBHFHRRNBIAATP.com), does the network really think anyone gives a holey (not holy) sock about a boat flipping over? At least in the original we got to imagine Shelly Winters in the role of "chum."

But I digress.

Perhaps in the future you would consider making the sound an option that can be turned on? Or even better, not making really, really horrible remakes of already horrible 70's disaster movies? Just a couple thoughts.

Thanks,

Tomorrow's Man

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