top 10 - Kent Ninomiya

Kent Ninomiya - It's that time a year again. The turn of the new year always brings two things to TV. They are: talk of new year resolutions and retrospectives of the previous year. Both inevitably involve lists. Top 10... top 100... etc. These stories appeal to the list makers in all of us as well as tap into the nostalgia we feel when reminded of things we witnessed but forgot about. Even resolutions, which on the surface seem to be forward looking, are really nostalgic. They are way to toss out half hearted promises to correct a previous wrongs. Even an apparent look forward is really a look back. I have another theory about the lists. They are an easy way to fill TV time in a traditionally slow news week. Rehash the file video, do a few man-on-the-street interviews and you have a bunch of fresh looking stories... even if they're not. Don't get me wrong. I don't comdemn the practice. In fact i'm making my lists now. Kent Ninomiya