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3 comments
May 2, 2014 at 6:55 am
anonymous
Nice, very nice. Thanks for that.
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May 2, 2014 at 9:53 am
syrbal-labrys
There is more than television to blame. I grew up watching television at every opportunity; but I did not stop reading books while doing so. (Often did the two at once, actually.)
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May 3, 2014 at 3:08 am
bleatmop
Good video, thought provoking at least. Though I do like the children’s programming that we have for my daughter (as does she). Wonderful shows such as Peg + Cat, which teaches a love of math; Toopy and Binoo with its messages of acceptance with a gender bending rat (that I particularly take delight in my conservative peers hysteria over their kids loving this show); and Super Why, a show that actually encourages children to read.
Of course there is a lot of intellectually vapid children’s shows, educational fast food as it were, for my kid to watch. But even these are few and far between. Most shows, if not edutainment usually try and teach some ethics, fair play, friendship, loyalty, ect. that I can approve of.
As far as adult television goes though, I think this video is spot on. Of all the shows on this list :
http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-25-best-tv-shows-of-2013
I can only think of a few that I could defend as not being completely intellectually vacant. And I watch a lot of these shows. They are basically a big fat greasy burger with a vat of french fries smothered in ketchup and a barrel of cola on the side, if television programming were to be food. And beyond that, most of the 24 hour news channels are just about the same. Now that we are reaching of something like the second or third month of CNN continuously having breaking news about some passenger plane that dissapeared without actually having any new news I think we can say they are nothing more that the circus to go along with the aforementioned bread.
Sorry for the wall of text. I guess the video was more effective at provoking thought that I originally assumed :)
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