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Television programing
Nov 30, 2007 | 9:22 PM
Category: Entertainment
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When I was young we had movies and radio. The nice thing about radio was we could see everything in our mind. Of course everyone saw it different. We could imagine the scenery and the characters and they were very real. When television came it was in black and white and we no longer imagined how things looked, it was there for us to see.

Television developed until today all programs are alike. The actors mumble so you can’t hear the script and they are always walking to distract you. Advertising is constant. The only time there are no pop up ads is when a commercial is on for a minute or more.

It seems the writers are all 15 years old. The weaker the plot, the more sex.

I have found that reading is much more entertaining. As far as I am concerned the writers can stay on strike.

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rosie read my blog view my photos
Dec 1, 2007 | 9:17 AM

love my tv, wouldnt know what to do without it
lsmlp read my blog view my photos
Dec 1, 2007 | 9:23 AM

I agree jacknife! TV today is disgusting. Full of immoral things that shouldn't be seen or heard. And they leave your brain no opportunities to THINK! All of the answers are thrown at you before you can even come up with the questions!

When we watch, it's always TV Land or Animal Planet. Of course I watch Fox2News, but even that's not for my kids!
connie3212 read my blog view my photos
Dec 1, 2007 | 12:49 PM

I let the kids watch PBS, disney in the morning and whatever I think is bad for them I turn off. I am lucky if I get to watch any TV at all....LOL so busy these days.
crickyann read my blog
Dec 1, 2007 | 8:52 PM

would seem lost if not having a good book to read-especially at night before bedtime, Now reading Eric Clspton's autobiography.
mr_wildflower read my blog view my photos
Dec 2, 2007 | 7:54 AM

Everything is soap opera style these days.... got to watch from week to week.... What happened to when they could get a good story to fit in an hour..

like Gunsmoke....
LadyCardFan read my blog view my photos
Dec 2, 2007 | 1:09 PM

Oh I love my soaps. I've been watching OLTL and GH for 30+ years. Since I record them I can speed through those nasty commercials and the plot lines or character stories I just don't like.

I love to watch HGTV and Food Network shows. Also A&E.
LadyCardFan read my blog view my photos
Dec 2, 2007 | 1:10 PM

BTW, I didn't know that the Wizard of Oz had a part in color until I was almost out of my teens, lol.
_007 read my blog
Dec 2, 2007 | 8:59 PM

People don't mumble on tv, you're just getting old.
stinkabinka read my blog
Dec 3, 2007 | 8:45 PM

i agree. tv is terrible. i have dish network as i love movies, biography channel, cooking channels etc. they can strike forever. as long as they keep repeating the waltons and little house on the prairie i am happy
_007 read my blog
Dec 4, 2007 | 2:26 AM

Last year alone, NBC made a $100 million profit off of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

The company makes the show available on its website and dvd. The writers asked for 2% of the profits and NBC counter-offered a nice round number. Zero.

Also, what did the talented folks who produce a show that can turn $100 million profit in one year get for their trouble?

They got laid off 4 weeks before Christmas.
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I go back 78 years. I have seen the great depression, creation of social security, medicare and medicaid, several wars, creation of the Interstate Highway system, the resignation of President Richard Nixon whose greatest crime was defending his friends of whom only one served time and later became a television personality. The congress has remained stedfast in its duties (building bridges to nowhere, critizing the president and accomplishing little). Harry Truman's campaign was "Give me a congress I can work with".

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