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Honey Boo Boo

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I can't tell you how much it bothers me,that I know
what the original poster was referring to.
I happened to catch something about it on a talk show,
& was repulsed by it.I won't waste my time watching garbage
like that.
We are the country that made Paris Hilton,Whatshername -
Ritchie,& the Kardashions famous.WHY?

- Doug
 
Never heard of the show (just looked it up), don't think I'd watch one second of it... :lol:

I'll agree that TV standards are deteriorating, A&E no longer does compelling programs just a bunch of reality stuff, how many times have I seen that same episode of Storage Wars? It's only been shown 1,000 times by now... :crazyeyes:

And OLN here in Canada hardly shows any stuff about the outdoors, what does ghost hunting have to do with the outdoors? I could keeping going but I won't...
 
FCC Chairman Newton Minow, at the May 9, 1961 annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters:

He excoriates the industry for its "procession of game shows, violence, audience participation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, Western bad men, Western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons, and, endlessly, commercials, many screaming, cajoling, and offending, and, most of all, boredom ..."

But take a look at the network (ABC, NBC, CBS) Sunday-Monday evening fall lineup. What a difference from today. You could watch everything with your parents and your children, and not be embarrassed.
 
NutmegCT said:
But take a look at the network (ABC, NBC, CBS) Sunday-Monday evening fall lineup. What a difference from today. You could watch everything with your parents and your children, and not be embarrassed.
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Couldn't agree more, but, I feel compelled to make two points.

1. When it comes to TV these days we are really the product not the customer. We can't ever forget that the shows are the fillers in between the commercials and not the other way around.

2. No business model in the world includes the sale of something no one wants. These shows aren't on because TV producers are sick and depraved they are on because there is demand and people watch them which sells ads and brings revenue and gets us back to point #1 above.

Here's why they make Honey Boo Boo:

The series premiere episode attained a 1.6 in the 18–49 demographic, attracting 2.2 million viewers.[2] The series was one of TLC's highest-rated shows in its first season.[3] The fourth episode, airing on the third night of the 2012 Republican National Convention, attracted almost 3 million viewers and scored a 1.3 rating with those 18-49, the highest rating that night with the age group of any cable program.

Like it or not, we have seen the enemy.....
 
JPSmit said:
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Like it or not, we have seen the enemy.....
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And the enemy is ... staring at us in the mirror.

Public entertainment for fun, instead of education for improvement. If we keep buying tickets, the entertainment will continue. If we keep ignoring what our youth are taught ...

sigh

T.
 
NutmegCT said:
JPSmit said:
<snip>

Like it or not, we have seen the enemy.....
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And the enemy is ... staring at us in the mirror.

Public entertainment for fun, instead of education for improvement. If we keep buying tickets, the entertainment will continue. If we keep ignoring what our youth are taught ...

sigh

T.
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Bread and Circuses my friend - sigh indeed.
 
JPSmit said:
1. When it comes to TV these days we are really the product not the customer.


Like it or not, we have seen the enemy.....
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You are more correct than you know. Without going down a rabbit hole, media is the largest tool of social engineering. There are reasons certain shows are on and it's not sales. Well, it's not sales in a monitary sense but we are being sold a bill of goods none the less.

Try this experiement. Start watching TV with the sound off and just look at the images. What message is it conveying? Watch it with the sound on and look at the lead characters of different shows, what do they have in common?

There is a reason Kim Kardashian is bigger than Paris Hilton now even though Kim started off as Paris' friend...and they both became "famous" for the same reason.


....and it's all a distraction to keep the hamsters on the wheel of commerce. It tells them what they want and how to live.



....iphone 6 anyone????



kellysguy said:
(plays across loudspeaker)

"Please stay in line and swiftly follow the swine ahead of you over the cliff" :yesnod:


:whistle:
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Ahahahahaha! I just ran across the Kimmel clip. :laugh:

That's gonna leave a mark. :eeek:

I'd rather have bye bye birdie mad at me.
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That's just too funny.



Prediction: America sits and watches the making of a strip club day girl. :whistle:

Mark my words boys and girls, mark my words. That's exactly the way it's gonna go down :wink:
 
JodyFKerr said:
I don't think we're seeing any real societal change here.

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Actually Jody we are. I just watched the Boo Boo clip posted in the other thread and it make more sense now than ever.


It's really simple, follow the money. Look at who now has the most power, top media coverage and money in Hollywood. We're being sold a mindset, a paradigm shift if you will.


Yeah, we're seein' a side that we wouldn't have before, but ~why~ are we being shown it more and more? :whistle:
 
NutmegCT said:
JPSmit said:
<snip>

Like it or not, we have seen the enemy.....
Click to expand...

And the enemy is ... staring at us in the mirror.

Public entertainment for fun, instead of education for improvement. If we keep buying tickets, the entertainment will continue. If we keep ignoring what our youth are taught ...

sigh

T.
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Too true. Walt Kelly was correct. :wink:
 
NutmegCT said:
Public entertainment for fun, instead of education for improvement. If we keep buying tickets, the entertainment will continue. If we keep ignoring what our youth are taught ...

sigh

T.
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You'd be a big hit at a party Tom! LOL! Goodness, I'd not want to live in a world where there was no "entertainment" for fun. That's the definition of entertainment! The problem, as I see it, is not that there is entertainment on television but rather how base the "entertainment" has become - catering to the lowest common denominator. Television can be both educational AND entertaining, and I wouldn't want it any other way. After a 60 hour week pouring over data and writing test reports, I sometimes like to come home and just be entertained. Sure, I watch mostly news and current-events based programming, but sometimes, I just want to watch some mindless fun. I think we all need that escape sometimes.
 
Basil said:
but sometimes, I just want to watch some mindless fun. I think we all need that escape sometimes.
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That's why I spend so much time here! :devilgrin:
 
Kelly likes the Law and order type shows. problem is, I hear " Dant Dant" too much in one night. I miss the programs of the 70's and early 80's like M.A.S.H, Cheers and such.
 
"Genuine metal with an antique dome!"

How quaint.
 
Doc, I saw that commercial today.
 
Mickey Richaud said:
Basil said:
but sometimes, I just want to watch some mindless fun. I think we all need that escape sometimes.
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That's why I spend so much time here! :devilgrin:
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Thats why I watch the beards :yesnod:
 
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