Reality TV
Reality TV - the Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Bachelor Pad, Big Brother, The Housewives of wherever (take your pick), Jersey Shore, 16 and Pregnant, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, and on and on. This is not reality - it is cheap programming. The people they are following and filming are not showing their true lives, they are putting on a good show for the cameras - looking for their 15 minutes of fame and hoping to get rich quick. Seems that so many want to peer in on other people and their bizarre behavior. I can't imagine that their own lives are not more interesting than watching this.
Then we have the true crime shows such as The Investigators, 48 Hours, Body of Evidence, and many more - where they show the most horrific things that humans will do to one another. Not sure if they are going for the shock of it all or if they are giving the already deranged more ideas. No matter which one you look at it all comes down to both money for the studios (programs cheap to produce), and a society that for some reason finds this interesting to watch.
I know that many would laugh if I mention Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver, Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore and so many of the old shows that now run on stations like TV Land. However, these were all amusing, harmless shows where you saw the simple problems of life and the abundant humor of every day life and families. The children and teens of today would find these shows corny or "lame" as they say, but at least the people in these shows were good to one another.
Even though we will not go back to the shows of the 50's, I truly hope that some day society will grow weary of watching all of the "reality" shows and the strange behavior portrayed. Maybe some day we will expect more out of Hollywood - programming with intelligence and uplifting humor more in line with true every day life. One can only hope.
Then we have the true crime shows such as The Investigators, 48 Hours, Body of Evidence, and many more - where they show the most horrific things that humans will do to one another. Not sure if they are going for the shock of it all or if they are giving the already deranged more ideas. No matter which one you look at it all comes down to both money for the studios (programs cheap to produce), and a society that for some reason finds this interesting to watch.
I know that many would laugh if I mention Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver, Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore and so many of the old shows that now run on stations like TV Land. However, these were all amusing, harmless shows where you saw the simple problems of life and the abundant humor of every day life and families. The children and teens of today would find these shows corny or "lame" as they say, but at least the people in these shows were good to one another.
Even though we will not go back to the shows of the 50's, I truly hope that some day society will grow weary of watching all of the "reality" shows and the strange behavior portrayed. Maybe some day we will expect more out of Hollywood - programming with intelligence and uplifting humor more in line with true every day life. One can only hope.
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