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TV Viewers in Sharp Decline as More People Awaken to the Idiocy of Television Programming
Natural News ^ | November 15, 2012 | J.D. Heyes

Posted on 11/15/2012 8:14:00 AM PST by Bon of Babble

It began with traditional newspaper circulation about a decade ago, and now the phenomenon has spread to television: Like millions of Americans who shun the daily paper, many are voting with their remotes and are turning off network TV.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: culturewars; hollywood; liberalmedia; trashtv; trends
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To: TomGuy

TVLAND also cut out one of my favorites on Fred Sanford, where he says “there is enough n****s in here to make a Tarzan movie”. That was done to make room for PC, I’m sure. :>)


121 posted on 11/15/2012 11:21:21 AM PST by WKB ( Remember "Bush Lied and People Died" Now it's "People died and Obama Lied")
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To: Ammo Republic 15

Hey, Hey, what you tawking ‘bout da Fat Albewt, he’s my fwiend, he kept me away fwom the dwugs and Bill Cosby too!


122 posted on 11/15/2012 11:31:04 AM PST by IslamE (epiphany)
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To: Bon of Babble

Too late. The zombie society rules.


123 posted on 11/15/2012 11:34:50 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery, IXNAY THE TSA!)
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To: discostu

I didn’t say hubby liked “Walter White”. I said he likes Bryan Cranston (the actor). He likes him as an actor because he puts everything he has into his character. So, yeah, WW has become a truly terrible human being. Bryan Cranston has made that seem entirely believable.


124 posted on 11/15/2012 11:39:13 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: kevkrom; LibertarianLiz
No, no -- WKRP's Les Nesman, "I thought turkeys could fly".

About 4 years ago I mentioned a show to my daughter who wasn't even alive whem it aired. I started describing the skit and we did a search on the Internet and found the WKRP episode. Now it has become an annual Thanksgiving Morning tradition, seeing the Macy's Parade sucks now days.

125 posted on 11/15/2012 11:40:23 AM PST by Wilum (Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
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To: kevkrom

Oh the humanity!


126 posted on 11/15/2012 11:43:47 AM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: dfwgator

Thanks for the head’s up on the show “Connections.”

Ascent of Man and The Day the Universe Changed are two of my favorite shows ever and this looks to be along those lines.

There are definitely shows worth watching on PBS on occasion despite its uber-PCness.

We are watching Call the Midwife at the Moment and everyone loves it — my 89 year old mother thinks it’s a bit graphic though, LOL. Otherwise, great show.


127 posted on 11/15/2012 11:49:55 AM PST by Bon of Babble (The Road to Ruin is Always Kept in Good Repair)
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To: WKB

Funneeee!!

Thread winner!!

Your post made my day a lot brighter — it’s cold, dark and overcast here and threatening rain....


128 posted on 11/15/2012 11:51:35 AM PST by Bon of Babble (The Road to Ruin is Always Kept in Good Repair)
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To: Hacksaw

“After the contract is up, I am getting the hell rid of it.”

We dumped DirecTV after 10 years with them. They’d drop a good channel from the lineup the same month the bill increased by $10. (Yet, we continued to receive LOGO homo station.) Enough. We ended that and went to Comcast, and we do like it However, we’re planning to dump that due to the relationship with NBC, Obama, et al.

The HDTV antenna option seems interesting. I’m trying to get as much info as possible about that option.


129 posted on 11/15/2012 11:56:30 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: prof.h.mandingo

The roku is a tremendous little device. If it weren’t for the Phillies, we’d get rid of our cable now that we’ve got the roku. We’ve got amazon prime anyway for its free two day shipping and we subscribe to Netflix - we stream free movie and tv shows all the time.


130 posted on 11/15/2012 11:57:25 AM PST by old and tired
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To: HamiltonJay
By the 80s they were still relatively family friendly, but starting to slide.

You sure about that? I recently caught an old rerun of The Golden Girls and they sprung a vibrator joke on me two minutes in. I thought "Whoa....twenty-five years ago? Seriously?"


131 posted on 11/15/2012 11:58:33 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: LibertarianLiz

“I thought turkeys could fly”.

“Oh! The humanity!”


132 posted on 11/15/2012 11:58:40 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The Golden Girls was the geriatric version of “Sex and the City.”


133 posted on 11/15/2012 12:00:14 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: LibertarianLiz

Ahhh, yeah totally agree. Cranston is an excellent actor.


134 posted on 11/15/2012 12:02:11 PM PST by discostu (Not a part of anyone's well oiled machine.)
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To: Ammo Republic 15

The weirdest thing about Fat Albert, was that when they would do their song at the end of show, Fat Albert’s singing voice was nothing like how he spoke.


135 posted on 11/15/2012 12:03:06 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: kevkrom
Poor Les was just giving a vividly accurate on-the-spot description of the turkey carnage, but it was "the big guy" who had the "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" line.

Based by the way on a TRUE STORY (happened at a station in Denver in the 1960's. Have a friend who worked for the guy who said it, upon whom Carlson's character was based).


136 posted on 11/15/2012 12:04:25 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: discostu
Most of the shows that have that female character they cheat

It's a lot wider than that. The same girl who played the robot was also on Firefly. You may have seen Scarlett Johannson in The Avengers. There are many, many more. And they don't cheat. They just defy the laws of physics. Just as a small motorcycle won't knock a sedan off the road unless it's just flying, a woman won't kick a man down who outweighs her by 100 lbs or more.

I don't get worked up over it, but I don't know why it's so popular right now EXCEPT to make it look like men are unnecessary.

Which, btw, was the impression I got from the few episodes of SCC, so I stopped watching.

137 posted on 11/15/2012 12:22:22 PM PST by ArGee (Reality - what a concept.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

BTW: Wild turkeys CAN fly. Those things that they overfeed to sell us in the supermarkets just weigh too much.


138 posted on 11/15/2012 12:27:19 PM PST by ArGee (Reality - what a concept.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

BTW: Wild turkeys CAN fly. Those things that they overfeed to sell us in the supermarkets just weigh too much.


139 posted on 11/15/2012 12:27:27 PM PST by ArGee (Reality - what a concept.)
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To: Bon of Babble

Glad to be a help!


140 posted on 11/15/2012 12:32:11 PM PST by WKB ( Remember "Bush Lied and People Died" Now it's "People died and Obama Lied")
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