Has TV gone off the deep end

[FishermanTim]

We as a society, have allowed our entertainment to dictate what we watch instead of us dictate what they will show.
I do not watch anything on tv except sports, old westerns, old "family shows", some of what the History Channel considers "history-related", some of the antique shows, a couple of comedies and of course sports.

If I watch a murder mystery, it's an old one.
If I watch a crime drama, it's old as well.
Heck, I even look for old classic movies when I have the time to watch it.

As for any of these celebriality / trainwreck /tiny people / baby's momma-daddy tramp shows / glorified medical abnormality shows / basic insult-my-intelligence shows, they can all just go to hell!

I want to be entertained, to be challenged by wisdom and knowledge, not insulted by vulgarity and violence for cash and immorality for fame's sake (ie. kardashians, linsay lohen, anyone on E and MTV).

We are truly doomed as a species if our intelligence is dictated by the lowest IQs in the world, ie... the entertainment industry!!!

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

We as a society, have allowed our entertainment to dictate what we watch instead of us dictate what they will show.
I do not watch anything on tv except sports, old westerns, old "family shows", some of what the History Channel considers "history-related", some of the antique shows, a couple of comedies and of course sports.

If I watch a murder mystery, it's an old one.
If I watch a crime drama, it's old as well.
Heck, I even look for old classic movies when I have the time to watch it.

As for any of these celebriality / trainwreck /tiny people / baby's momma-daddy tramp shows / glorified medical abnormality shows / basic insult-my-intelligence shows, they can all just go to hell!

I want to be entertained, to be challenged by wisdom and knowledge, not insulted by vulgarity and violence for cash and immorality for fame's sake (ie. kardashians, linsay lohen, anyone on E and MTV).

We are truly doomed as a species if our intelligence is dictated by the lowest IQs in the world, ie... the entertainment industry!!!

Whatsamatter wit you? You don't like titties?

[piemma]

The first time Clammer was on my boat he dropped his shorts and Mooned me, he-who-cannot-be-mentioned and everybody at Oakland Beach.

YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT A REALITY SHOW!!

[FishermanTim]

Originally Posted by MakoMike

Whatsamatter wit you? You don't like titties?

Oh, I likes 'em....I likes 'em a hole bunch!

Unfortunately the head attached to them is usually unbearable!

Kind of like putting a Wallmart reel on an expensive rod.

[Jimbo]

I just returned from a week and a half at the family compound in West Dennis. My house is the oldest (around 125) and least upgraded. No phone, no cable, no wireless. there isn't a three prong electrical outlet in the whole house. My brother and his daughter were out from Seattle area and going through absolute withdrawal. I said, "Hey, you guys like NatGeo? The History Channel?, American Pickers?" "Oh yea, that's cool, we like that." "Well in the front room there's a ton of National Geographic magazines from the 60's to the 80's, Yankee magazines, Life magazines there's even Boy's Life and Ranger Rick from when we were kids, as well as old books (is there anything better than the smell of a musty old book), history books, old historic novels on the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, paperback novels, romance novels for the beach crowd. There's closets full of old stuff to pull out and look at and try on or tey and figure out what something is." I didn't miss TV or my computer one bit. Couldn't contain myself when I got back to the world, but for 10 days I was E-less except for the daily update to the family to let them know I hadn't hurt myself in any way and my blood pressure had even dropped to acceptable levels (but I also attribute that to my daily swim in the soothing, healing waters of Bass River). Yea, long winded way of agreeing, "What the heck's up with TV these days?"

[Raven]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

We are truly doomed as a species if our intelligence is dictated by the lowest IQs in the world, ie... the entertainment industry!!!

actually the GOVERNMENT holds that Title