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Is 2 or 11 better these days? I grew up watching Dave Ward, Shara Fryer, Tim Melton/Bob Allen and Ed Brandon.

That is a sickening story and frankly more and more little kids are going to be completely screwed up by their libtard agenda-pushing parents.

And F ck Ktrk for pushing this nonsense. It is insane that the media panders to a tiny, mentally ill demographic.

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I also grew up on the names you mention. Watching the new team has really puzzled me as to whether a) there's also been massive turnover in the production staff, or b) Dave Ward & the others were just incredibly good and we took it for granted.

The amount of bumbling/fumbling through scripts, mistakes in camera work, talking over each other inadvertently etc is unbelievable. It's like something I'd expect from a college campus channel or something. My wife and I shake our heads every night.

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Is 2 or 11 better these days? I grew up watching Dave Ward, Shara Fryer, Tim Melton/Bob Allen and Ed Brandon.

That is a sickening story and frankly more and more little kids are going to be completely screwed up by their libtard agenda-pushing parents.

And F ck Ktrk for pushing this nonsense. It is insane that the media panders to a tiny, mentally ill demographic.

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I also grew up on the names you mention. Watching the new team has really puzzled me as to whether a) there's also been massive turnover in the production staff, or b) Dave Ward & the others were just incredibly good and we took it for granted.

The amount of bumbling/fumbling through scripts, mistakes in camera work, talking over each other inadvertently etc is unbelievable. It's like something I'd expect from a college campus channel or something. My wife and I shake our heads every night.

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Disney has owned and operated the station since early in 1996. The entire industry is in decline, but in the case of 13, it really ramped up in the summer of 2014 when the long-tenured and capable newsroom management left and were replaced by the people that used to produce shows such as Debra Duncan and other society/fashion/lifestyle programming. These are the folks that have been running the newsroom for the last five years. Add to that the departure of a ton of talented, long-tenured staff from both sides of the camera, whether by their choice or otherwise, and you're left with today's product. There are actually still a number of talented journalists there, but for the most part, it's a bunch of inexperienced young people who, quite frankly, have never learned how to do it right to begin with. Add to that, a lot more work that has to be done by a much smaller staff... that's where you start to see a lot of errors in execution. Seven hours of news a day (M-F,) plus all the digital content, put together by fewer people than ever... not a good recipe.

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Also, what exactly is the point of these stunts?

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It's mostly about the moms needing attention. Look up "Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy."

For a smaller group, there is a bizarre drive to normalize the sexualization of children.

All different forms of child abuse.

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The point is the vast majority LGBTQ community suffered quite a bit growing up from bigotry and mistreatment for being who they were. Because of that a portion of them encourage these stunts because they think it helps the LGBTQ kids of today from the abuse they did. Plus I'm sure there is some living vicariously, imagining getting praise for being the way they were as kids as opposed to being ridiculed or punished.

It is kinda like pushover parents who overcorrected for having overly strict parents.

Are y'all really mad at this or just internet mad?

I'm sure 13 had a slot to fill w/ a LBGTQ story to go along with Pride weekend/month/parade and this was an easy story to pick.

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These children have ultra liberal parents who I am sure pimp their kids out (not literally hopefully) for attention and liberal SJW street cred.

I would think even the gays on Texags would be vehemently against this vile sh**.

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Of the ones I know of. They are.

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In reality they just endorsed sexual abuse of children.

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Not much different than the parents that paint their 6 year old daughters up for beauty contests that have swimsuit contests and ****.

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I've only seen one case where they actually performed in a gay club.

The whole drag queen thing is weird to me, but I can see there is a community that like it and it's not always sexually driven. It's more about the show.

Beauty pageants are about sex appeal when it comes down to it. Cheerleading is about sex appeal when it comes down to it ultimately.

But kids see adults doing something that looks cool and fun and they want to do it too, and adults put together ways for their kids to do it and they just tell themselves that it's all for fun and there's nothing wrong with it.

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Tell me you really don't believe this and are being contrarian because that is what you think your schtick has to be on any social topic.

Because if you really believe this, good lord you are either naive as F or flat blind to the realities of garbage like this.

You don't think there are naive parents out there who allow their kids to do inappropriate things?

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You don't think there are naive parents out there who allow their kids to do inappropriate things?

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Sure, but that usually becomes an issue in middle school or high school. At storytime age, it's 100% the parents are deciding what they think is "cool" for their kids and what will make them "cool parents" in the eyes of their social media peers.

You don't think there are 7 year old girls out there that see beauty pageants and want to be in them themselves?

I have plenty of experience with friends and family where their kids under 8 are into completely different things that their parents are. I have a friend with a daughter who hates Disney movies and both parents love them.