This is a new one

Im sorry, I do not fully follow the media. Swallowing the propaganda it creates. If something happens and we work the problem, be it a tornado etc. Otherwise Im ready for tomorrow. For example, if you lived in my home there is no telephone or politics playing on my television. In 2008 we were robo called by politicians and that was the last straw. Pull the land line and change the channel. This election will be over soon enough.

 

They had a law repealed or written to release the old world war two rules against either fantasy or creating of such fabrications and lies a few years ago.

 

Laughed at the Communist BS propaganda during the cold war & now the same has been/is happening in less & less subtle ways nowadays over here...

 

I tell you what's on TV. Drivel. And the occaisonal basket ball, baseball or football to quell the masses. Locally here.

On the higher channels in Dish, it's reruns. They have managed for every friday, saturday and threaten to do sunday the same content they did last week, the week before that and the month before. Over and over and over. Offering only new content about once a month with a total of about 10 episodes for a whole story such as Ice Road Truckers etc. Then it's back to reruns. Im fixing to ditch the dish. Im sick of it.

Then what? Well the net. Hmm.. well there are thousands, tens of thousands of sourcing for whatever you like. Im not sure if I want to subject or transfer the feed to the big screen in the other room the internet content, Im looking into it. Im tempted to do it.

The VCR is dead, they finished production pernamently last spring. Our local libraries have dumped a few hundred of the remaining stocks of VCR tapes to clear the shelves pernamently, we managed to capture most of them if not all so that others in our building with 20 dollar 5 year old VCR's and too poor to afford Blue Ray DVD can still enjoy some of them for a few more years until the tapes itself give out.

Storm coverage is improving in our area. But it's not often spotters come here because we are hill and valley country and storms follow the riverbed most of the time. Or the ridgelines. For the last serious storms I have been here on net tracking them every time radar refreshes in 5 minutes. Ergo open 5 radars from 5 sources and they all refresh at different times online. The television locals do not broadcast until there is a proper killer on the ground, and only then do they break in.

Ive said enough. I remember Park and View from way back plugging in and having a dispatcher call me and wife in our bunk was cool. Then it became an aggravation. Toss it, we never sit long enough to get it.

9-11 was probably the very best of broadcast. Most television analog was 30 to 60 miles range depending on height of transmitter. Ours in Redfield is 2000 feet south of little rock and at one time the highest object in the free world for the 60's then. A record holder and a world wonder. Now satellites carry coast to coast without static. But never free. Always some kind of subscription.

Back to 9-11 The Nation started to activate many transmitters saved for nuclear war and it became possible to leave Toledo Oh east on 80 in the mid day after the towers fell watching the live programming on any number of channels in the bunk that played constantly for three weeks, never losing the signal anywhere ont he east and midwest. We actually still have that little TV set in the corner and it still works well.

A few years ago, things got really bad and we are discovering that perhaps the Net will be the source of the future. Just don't know just yet. It covers pretty much everything else these days.

 

One thing is certain. Back in 1961, Newton Minnow, former HMFIC of the FCC, referred to television as "a vast wasteland," in an address to The National Association of Broadcasters. This was 55 years ago.
Since then, TV shows have declined exponentially in both content and quality. The networks that dictate what is shown, have become nothing but cheap prostitutes, selling themselves to anything and anyone, that is able to increase their bottom line.
I am certain that this"dumbing down" of the populace of our country is due primarily to the so-called entertainment industry. And not just TV, but every form of entertainment. I remember the arguments about violence on TV and in movies, being harmful to young minds. This, of course, was hotly denied by Hollywood.
But how many school shootings occurred back then? We are reaping what we have sown!
While it is true that there has always been violence, and tremendous inhumanity in the world, it is clear that the sheer number of incidents of massive violence is increasing. When you are fed nothing but violence and sex, or violence with sex, for that matter, you start to become hardened to it. It takes more and more to shock people, and the shock factor is what sells everything from games to movies and TV shows.