02-17-2004, 04:38 PM
Hi,
I almost wanted to smash my TV and strangle the retarded network execs for cancelling it in the first place.
That's two cases of shooting the messenger in one sentence :)
Pretty clear that your TV isn't to blame for the trash it receives. As Gallagher says, "There's a brightness button, but it doesn't seem to work." :)
But the network execs aren't to blame, either. Broadcast TV is a for profit business. Profit comes from the price the network can get for advertising time. That, in turn, is determined by the size of the audience. If a "quality" show is run against some "reality" or "wrestling", guess where the audience goes?
So, if you want to blame something for the crap that is 99% of TV, 98% of movies, 95% of books, etc., then blame the ignorant audiences that demand crap instead of sustenance. Blame the "cult of ignorance" that is and has dominated Western "culture" for the past half a century. It's just another example of pure crap driving out mediocre crap.
--Pete
I almost wanted to smash my TV and strangle the retarded network execs for cancelling it in the first place.
That's two cases of shooting the messenger in one sentence :)
Pretty clear that your TV isn't to blame for the trash it receives. As Gallagher says, "There's a brightness button, but it doesn't seem to work." :)
But the network execs aren't to blame, either. Broadcast TV is a for profit business. Profit comes from the price the network can get for advertising time. That, in turn, is determined by the size of the audience. If a "quality" show is run against some "reality" or "wrestling", guess where the audience goes?
So, if you want to blame something for the crap that is 99% of TV, 98% of movies, 95% of books, etc., then blame the ignorant audiences that demand crap instead of sustenance. Blame the "cult of ignorance" that is and has dominated Western "culture" for the past half a century. It's just another example of pure crap driving out mediocre crap.
--Pete
How big was the aquarium in Noah's ark?