[humblegunner]

enabled the media to successfully normalize ease dropping

What is "ease dropping"?

[Incorrigible]

Hey now!

Being from New Jersey, I hardly think flyover country has the exclusive on gawker type shows. “Jersey Shore”, “Housewives of New Jersey”, the crazy bakery guy. I pass by the “Jerseylicious” saloon at least 3 times a week! Though I’ve never seen the show, it’s done wonders for the strip mall it’s located in.

And all the recent Jersey infatuation started with a scripted show, “The Sopranos”.

Of course, our current Governor does what he can to keep the New Jersey mystique alive and well around the country!

[Mad Dawgg]

"Is Honey Boo Boo A Scam?"

The instrument has yet been invented that can measure accurately my lack of "giving a shit" about this particular "reality" show.

[ravenwolf]

In our home you will not find televised programming. No Nightly News (or as some would say-Nightly sNewz), no game shows, no DIY, no infomercials or reality TV. I’ll admit that there are some drawbacks. No golf, no Olympic coverage, no football, baseball, or basketball. There’s no live coverage of any sporting events, but these drawbacks are of little consequence. On each and every occasion in which we travel, and are provided with the opportunity to sit in our hotel rooms and stare at the one-eyed monster, my family and I are reminded of why we dumped televised programming in the first place many years ago.

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Same case here, except since i have never heard of honey boo boo maybe a little longer.

[texas_mrs]

There are very few shows on TV I watch, but I do like Mysteries from the Museum. They tell the history of objects in museums around the country, which involves telling details about an event it was involved in. Like the sinking of the Titanic, Amelia Earharts disappearance, or sometimes events you never heard of.

My husband likes to watch the Cajun guys that hunt alligators or crocodiles, I can never distinguish between them. I have often thought how the elite must view us hicks after seeing these shows, but I also think it's funny as heck how many leftist actors and actresses are not working on sitcoms due to reality TV and how that must tick them off.

[The Great RJ]

What I find disturbing is that even networks like the History Channel and NatGeo are being filled with this reality TV mania. The "reality" shows are becoming like the movie of a few years ago The Truman Show where the entire life being depicted was a total fabrication. Frankly I am sick of shows about guys driving their trucks over the ice, people picking through someone's trash heap to find "treasures", smart aleck pawn shop owners, foul mouthed loggers and gold miners and most disgusting of all idiotic parents forcing their young children into ludicrous beauty pageants. I have long ago quit watching network TV shows, but now find that even the cable networks are becoming every bit as trashy. I am becoming convinced that the movie Idiocracy is as prophetic of where we are headed as was Orwell's 1984

[prisoner6]

What is more striking to me is the fact that many in our society fail to realize that this program is designed to actually ridicule and mock the “country folk“ in “flyover country”, or as some would like to say, “hicks” and “rednecks”, as well as reinforce the stereotype. If viewers fail to see the correlation between the timing of this program and this election cycle-and its historical significance, it’s no wonder America is in over its head.

The author apparently doesn't have the ability to laugh at himself.

I WILL DEFEND "GREEN ACRES" UNTIL THE DAY I DIE!

Meanwhile the author also apparently has no problem with the internet and it's misinformation, propaganda and need I mention PR0N? Don't like Honey Boo Boo? Don't watch it. It's Freedom to choose.

[NormsRevenge]

belly flopping into a mud bog is not being a redneck.. doing it into a nice stinky gooey pig sty and smiling afterwards is. TLC likes gooey and stinky for some reason.;-)

[tophat9000]

So basically it hells version of Sheryl Temple...