SHOULD TV BE OUTLAWED?
- Thread starter POLTERGEIST
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TV is a great way to keep the masses 'dumbed down.' Average TV dialogue and content is coveyed at a 3rd or 4th grade reading level.
TV runs off of corporate conglomorates which advertise and misrepresent products harmful to our well being yet assume no responsibility.
The news and info. transmitted to us are so biased, that the truth is not represented, rather the corporate interests of the programs sponsors.
If half the people in this country READ 1 minute for every 5 minutes spent on TV we'd be a helluva lot more educated, and F*** reading required by school, educate yourself on some topics relevent to your life or interests... iShhhh
TV (and advertisers) manipulate images and inspire 'Material Wants' into 'Material Needs' Look at the correlation of products/services advertised on TV in the US to our rate of depression, and myriad of other anti'social disorders TV has bred...
Imagine if a percentage of those advertising dollars were re-allocated to community programs which emphasize the arts (visual, audio, theatricle, ect...) or sports? I guess that's not very capitalistic though....
TV perputates stupidy. For so many it is the end all of answers and problems, and everything that is broadcast is truth...
However, it is nice relax with the bong and some munchies and watch a cool sitcom, movie, some bs news or whatever I won''t disagree (although I don't do it that much, in fact I boycott cable and don't subscribe myself)
I mean there are too many people out there who know what color panties Paris Hilton wore last tuesday night, but have know idea about what these politicians and corporations are doing hand in hand to dictate your future.
So let me rephrase my earlier sentiments by saying that TV shouldn't be banned... we should just have a moritorium until we have some major proactive and progressive media reform...
now click these links
www.mediacarta.org
www.adbusters.com
HOLLA!
TV runs off of corporate conglomorates which advertise and misrepresent products harmful to our well being yet assume no responsibility.
The news and info. transmitted to us are so biased, that the truth is not represented, rather the corporate interests of the programs sponsors.
If half the people in this country READ 1 minute for every 5 minutes spent on TV we'd be a helluva lot more educated, and F*** reading required by school, educate yourself on some topics relevent to your life or interests... iShhhh
TV (and advertisers) manipulate images and inspire 'Material Wants' into 'Material Needs' Look at the correlation of products/services advertised on TV in the US to our rate of depression, and myriad of other anti'social disorders TV has bred...
Imagine if a percentage of those advertising dollars were re-allocated to community programs which emphasize the arts (visual, audio, theatricle, ect...) or sports? I guess that's not very capitalistic though....
TV perputates stupidy. For so many it is the end all of answers and problems, and everything that is broadcast is truth...
However, it is nice relax with the bong and some munchies and watch a cool sitcom, movie, some bs news or whatever I won''t disagree (although I don't do it that much, in fact I boycott cable and don't subscribe myself)
I mean there are too many people out there who know what color panties Paris Hilton wore last tuesday night, but have know idea about what these politicians and corporations are doing hand in hand to dictate your future.
So let me rephrase my earlier sentiments by saying that TV shouldn't be banned... we should just have a moritorium until we have some major proactive and progressive media reform...
now click these links
www.mediacarta.org
www.adbusters.com
HOLLA!