{"id":936,"date":"2025-12-26T18:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pizzanpopcorn.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:24:11","slug":"news-blames-golden-girls-ai-ugly-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pizzanpopcorn.com\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"News Gets Ugly Blames Golden Girls  Over AI Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pizzanpopcorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1.png?resize=259%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-937\" style=\"width:323px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I have more than enough to eat at home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\"><strong>(NNTN) &#8211;<\/strong> In today\u2019s <em>hold-on-to-your-slice, that sh!t might be hot<\/em> headlines, a controversial <strong>60 Minutes<\/strong> report that was yanked from U.S. TV has been spreading online like spilled popcorn at a Marvel premiere \u2014 thanks to the preppy and ever so polite Canadian news platform that accidentally served it up with a side of \u201c<em>Oops eh\u201d<\/em>. Both journalists and internet sleuths are insisting it\u2019s not <em>clickbait<\/em>, even though parts of this whole saga feel like the <em>Matrix<\/em> glitching mid-battle scene when the cat appeared twice, even Rob Ford stated \u201cI never said I wanted to eat her pussy\u201d I guess he meant who let the cat out the bag. Meanwhile, ABC News and other outlets are reminding everyone there\u2019s <em>actual real world stuff<\/em> going on too, like millions hitting the road post-Christmas amid coast-to-coast storms and the perennial question of <em>why we ever drive anywhere in winter<\/em> in the first place, but sports gambling has now upped the ante to life gambling. Imagine <em>The Weather Channel<\/em> meets an existential crisis and Draft Kings, with extra buttered popcorn for its greasy effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across the pond and around the globe, BBC News and other legacy outlets (yes, the ones your grandparents still trust more than your group chat) are broadcasting to millions worldwide \u2014 probably because people love hearing about foreign events while simultaneously scrolling for celebrity news updates (Jonas Brothers adding tour dates, anyone?). Popcast sources also note that news consumption has gotten so personalized that there\u2019s now apps aggregating content from ABC, CNN, BBC, and more \u2014 basically turning your TV into <em>Netflix but for world chaos<\/em> (and fewer dragons, sadly). So as headlines keep piling up faster than pizza boxes at a Super Bowl party, humanity\u2019s enduring takeaway remains the same: you can\u2019t predict the news, but you <em>can<\/em> predict that somewhere, someone is streaming it in 4K while eating popcorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WE WANT TACOS NOT TRENDS <\/strong><br>And in a continuation from yesterday\u2019s article on AI across the digital landscape, artificial intelligence keeps leveling up faster than an unemployed gamer with a caffeine drip, it has now replaced the defunct TV Guide and has been recommending TV shows <em>and<\/em> the perfect popcorn seasoning for your Friday night binging of the Golden Girls. British voices (very BBCesque) are calmly telling the masses that this is \u201cevolutionary,\u201d while others (very ABC News, very American) scream \u201cWhat about jobs?! Robots don\u2019t have families!\u201d, obviously non have experienced shopping at Wal-Mart where the self-checkout AI has been shaking down shoppers and employees alike begging for tips, accepting bribes, and even hustling some of the patrons. Somewhere between the fresh vegetables and frozen pizza bites on Aisle 16 something went left. Meanwhile back at Planet Popcast, people are still arguing whether robots will free humanity or take our pizza jobs first leaving us a state of deep depression. Experts say the answer depends on if they can prevent a Marxist AI from becoming possessed by the ghost of Hitler, or even worse begins to speculate whether pineapple belongs on pizza or anchovies, recreating the pizza topping war crimes circa 1942 that American fought and died for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SNACK BREAK REALITY CHECK<\/strong><br>And in the <em>bittersweet but still buttery<\/em> corner of life, folks around the globe keep doing what humans do best: celebrate small wins with snacks. Whether it\u2019s grabbing popcorn during a chaotic zoom call, quoting <em>The Office<\/em> to make sense of geopolitics, or debating if <em>The Mandalorian<\/em> counts as historical documentation, one truth remains: life is weird, news is weirder, and pizza is forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI has been shaking down shoppers and employees alike begging for tips, accepting bribes, and hustling the patrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[89,92,96,98,90,101,99,91,97,100],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-climate","tag-dramas","tag-gambling","tag-global","tag-golden-girls","tag-hitler","tag-leaders","tag-rob-ford","tag-tv-guide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pizzanpopcorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1.png?fit=259%2C194&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgXSPI-f6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1636,"url":"https:\/\/pizzanpopcorn.com\/?p=1636","url_meta":{"origin":936,"position":0},"title":"Serious Suits, Hope, Heartbreak &amp; Stand-Up","author":"admin","date":"January 13, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"(NNTN) - \ud83c\udf0d World Stage World leaders met again to discuss \u201cglobal cooperation,\u201d which translated to Joe Biden saying \u201cfolks\u201d a lot, Emmanuel Macron looking like he wandered in from a cologne commercial, and Xi Jinping calmly reminding everyone that patience is power\u2014while holding the biggest bowl of popcorn in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Not Necessarily the News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Not Necessarily the News","link":"https:\/\/pizzanpopcorn.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pizzanpopcorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-15.png?fit=455%2C249&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":929,"url":"https:\/\/pizzanpopcorn.com\/?p=929","url_meta":{"origin":936,"position":1},"title":"Chaos Spreads As Global Leaders Outsmarted By AI","author":"Colin Martin","date":"December 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"World leaders congregated to discuss pressing global issues but were sidetracked by distractions during the meeting. 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