Posted by admin | Posted in tack | Posted on 17-09-2010
Tags: auction, cheap, cowboys, people-cutting, saddle, western, westernreiten
Is entertainment catering to the lowest common denominator?
So the most popular television shows are things like Desperate Housewives, "To Catch a Predator" or "The Awful Truth", which people regularly admit are bad, but a "guilty pleasure". I'm not some right-wing nutso, but these shows don't promote very good values, and provide entertainment value that relies on people responding to their greediest, most base desires.
Based on how television and movies are based on entertaining us and roping us in no matter what it takes rather than quality or intellectual merit, do you think that we're losing our dignity?
The only thing entertainment caters to is $. It's a business, and it goes with what sells. Everything else is us, the consumers, fault. Mainstream programming based on quality and intellectual merit is long gone, that is, if it ever existed. And plus, it's not like all other types of TV shows disappeared. I'm an avid History channel watcher and I dislike reality TV and shows that keep you hooked by having a cliffhanger at the end of every episode. To answer your main question though, I think the change in TV says more about us than it does anything else.
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