MTV, Both Sleazy and Sour

Townhall.com ^ | December 11, 2011 | Brent Bozell

[Chode]

looks like NOW finally got what it wanted...

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

” I have noticed the animation is so realistic - small kids must find it difficult or impossible to distinguish between fantasy & reality “

When I was a little kid, Gumby freaked me out. Scared me! I knew people/things just didn’t move like that! Wouldn’t watch it.

[Tex-Con-Man]

Around 1995, I divorced and ended up with sole custody of my 10 year old son.

MTV was the reason I never allowed cable in my house after that. We read instead. My son now has his own sizable collection of books.

[palmer]

What you are wishing for exists, it is all on the internet. It can be a chore to find all those topics you listed, but it is worth it. There is no justification for having broadcaster do that for you, you should choose everything. I got rid of my TV in June 1999 and while I used to watch at friends I don’t even do that any more (I can hear it from the other room). It is almost all crap now, including some of the channels you named.

[palmer]

I was in a hotel last week but left the TV off. I used to turn it on for old times sake, but I just don’t see the need anymore.

[palmer]

Have there been any studies relating this phenomena to autism? Visual overload? Passive non-interaction with the characters?

It is without any doubt bad for young kids, the younger they are, the worse it is. Also "Educational" TV is just as bad as any other.

[Scotswife]

we just got dish network - family package.

It’s cheap.
There is no mtv or vh1

So far the kids seem pretty happy with Nick and Animal Planet.
I’m happy I finally to get to watch Fox every now and then.

[junta]

The right critique of this kind of trash and the people who produce it could destroy the pop culture juggernaught in very little time.

[hopespringseternal]

Both of the TVs I have owned in the last ten years have let us block and password protect channels.

Garbage like MTV and ABC "Family" never sees the light of day at our house. Plus we don't center our lives around the TV.

We watch movies that are entertaining and uplifting that all of us can watch, then we turn the thing off and do something else. Days can go by without our TV being on.

[Donkey Odious]

“I (don’t) want my M...T...V.”

[jmacusa]

“Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”” “Men are so honest/so throughly square/historically noble/eternally fair...’’ Apologies to Professor Henry Higgins.

[LostInBayport]

I have for years wished that there were some way of having cable or a Direct TV-type setup where you could order only the channels you want

It has been bandied about for a long time; it's called "a la carte programming". I too would love the chance to pick 8 or 10 channels and reduce my costs.

The reason it is fought is because so many channels filled with utter crap (think MSNBC, LOGO, BET, Oprah, etc.) would have to close down because not enough people would pay to have them. As it stands now, they get a dime or quarter from your bill because you are a forced subscriber. That is how they survive.

In other words, in a market where consumers truly could choose their cable/satellite content, lots of channels would have to change their content to attract subscribers or become extinct. The left knows sane people will not pay for their junk.

[edzo4]

have you checked out hulu.com they have several food network shows and others that you can watch online for free, and by hooking up an hdmi from my laptop to the big screen I can even watch them on the big tv

[GeronL]

They watched all that and they stayed sane??

[wintertime]

When we travel we watch netflicks or Hulu, but do check in briefly on some of the cable channels to see what is going on in the culture.

[little jeremiah]

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Responsible parents very carefully monitor what their children watch. Including teenagers. People (including adults!) are affected by what they take in through their senses - that's why advertising works; if it didn't affect people they wouldn't spend gazillions of dollars on it year after year. That's why propaganda works. No one can claim that they are not at all affected by watching or listening to junk, any more than people are immune to eating poisonous mushrooms. And Hollywood is just as disgustingly evil as TV, the whole entertainment business whether TV or Hollywood, is entirely corrupt and loathesome.

[Newtoidaho]

I spent all last week in hotels also, never turned the damn thing on once. I used to turn it on for sports but even that has become insufferable, especially the idiotic espn network.