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who hates reality tv

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Maybe if a new New World Order can dumb us down later on we are easier to manipulate. I wonder who funds reality tv, the soapies, sport so we get hooked and become vegetables.
Posted by Gibo, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 1:08:16 PM
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All things come in waves. Yes, reality TV is cheap, but if you consume too much of something, people yearn for something different.

Reality TV isn't going away, but perhaps its supremacy will someday. Even if television becomes totally dumbed down, there will still be niche programming available for more intelligent people - presumably, there will always be advertisers who are targeting more intelligent individuals, so there's your niche right there.

Besides, as long as they don't axe the ABC or SBS, we should be okay.

Anyway, you're distracting me. I've gotta go get back to watching 'Dancing with the Biggest Survivor.'
Posted by TurnRightThenLeft, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 2:57:12 PM
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The dumb ones are those who complain about TV, when if they were really concerned they could just turn it off. The folk who find it entertaining obviously have more in their lives than them whose sole purpose in life seems to be to criticize the discretionary viewing habit of strangers.

Personally I quite enjoy watching police chase and border protection shows, dislike “dancing” and “idol” shows (so I don’t watch them). I enjoy some costume dramas but have never got into soapies like Summer bay or Ramsay St (so I do not watch them either) actually one of my favourite shows at present is Boston Legal, whilst the court bits are bland, the interplay between the James Spader, William Shatner and the other characters I find very amusing.

As for “dumbing down”, I would certainly prefer to watch TV than sit in a corner and read the bible or similar texts, a perverse practice. Feeling pious and worthy from ingesting the regurgitated machinations of religious propagandists.
Posted by Col Rouge, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 3:00:50 PM
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Col

Turning off the TV has already been mentioned it still doesn't mean that a person can't complain about the lack of quality TV (in their opinion). This forum is titled Online Opinion.

One can still have an opinion about something even if they don't partake (eg. porn, eating chocolate covered ants or lacrosse) and even if they know where the off switch is.

My concern is also for the younger generations who might think this diet of reality TV is the norm and that there is nothing better. But as TRTL rightly points out we will muddle along regardless until something else comes along.

The choice between reading the bible or watching Big Brother...Mmmmm tough one.
Posted by pelican, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 4:30:37 PM
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pelican “Turning off the TV has already been mentioned it still doesn't mean that a person can't complain about the lack of quality TV (in their opinion).”

We get what we pay for, hence the term “Free to air”.

“This forum is titled Online Opinion.” Yes and I am expressing mine.

“One can still have an opinion about something even if they don't partake (eg. porn, eating chocolate covered ants or lacrosse) and even if they know where the off switch is.”

Oh yes, I have an opinion about lesbian sex, yet find myself unable to fully participate.

“My concern is also for the younger generations who might think this diet of reality TV is the norm and that there is nothing better.”

I think “concerns” for the “younger generations” is a matter best left with the parents of the “younger generations”

“But as TRTL rightly points out we will muddle along regardless until something else comes along.”

Or we switch it off, he said listening to a rendition of “the bell song” from lakme.

“The choice between reading the bible or watching Big Brother...Mmmmm tough one.”

Both absolutely mind numbing, I would have thought
Posted by Col Rouge, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 5:18:15 PM
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I was once in a TV reality show in Australia
Although it increased our private investigator business it did draw out all the losers and the critics who had a lot of time on their hands to bikker.

Charles Rahim private investigator in Australia
Polygraph Examiner
Posted by Chaz _8, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 7:31:11 PM
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