Posted on 12/21/2013 7:26:47 AM PST by steelhead_trout
Enter Duck Dynasty, a magically lucrative institution that simultaneously 1) is a reality show and 2) features conservative Christians. It was a money-printing machine for A&E until — who could have predicted? — one of its redneck stars did something one may have expected a redneck to do and our nation faced its greatest peril since, say, the Cold War. Has Western civilization ever confronted such an existential imperilment as the suspension of man-on-man-sex-eschewing Phil Robertson? A pretty big sector of the Internet submits that it has not.
There are perfectly understandable reasons to be upset about Robertson’s suspension. But I, for one, am thrilled about it. I only wish A&E had gone further and suspended everyone on that stupid show, and also suspended everyone on all their other reality shows, and that all the other channels on TV that have reality shows had suspended all their stars too. Barring that, I wish great success to the Liberty Patriots who are boycotting A&E over Robertson’s suspension, and I hope all other Americans, regardless of their patriot status, will join the A&E boycott, and that the A&E boycott will spread to include all the other channels that show this kind of nonsense, and that we can finally just get rid of it all for good, forever and ever amen. I want everyone suspended. I want every channel boycotted. I want every show shuttered, and permanently. I want to watch it burn.
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Simple. Don’t like - don’t watch.
You need to stop paying your cable bill. If you pay for cable you are giving money to MSNBC and the rest, far more money than the commercials do.
Junk food for the mind.
I blocked A&E from my TV this morning. Then called the cable company and told them what I did. Any advertising from them will not get into my house. It’s easy to do without them.
I’m glad Betsy signed her name to this article so I know who to boycott
“Shut Everything Down!”
So say the Fascist Homos.
I have no interest in reality shows I never watch them. Same with contest shows whether dancing, jungle surviving or singing. I don’t care about these people....but if folks want to watch them go right ahead.
“Reality” show seems like a misnomer, since just about all of them are scripted to some extent. The networks don’t like it when that fact is brought up, but it’s true.
Reality Shows are because TV producers are lazy and lack imagination.
There has been some great TV but this is not it. This is time -slot filler. They say “Hey lets follow a bunch of hicks around 24/7 and edit the funny parts for on-air viewing.
This is how you get “cup-a-fart” as entertainment
Soon there will be a hit movie in theatres called “Ass” (see the documentary “Idiocracy”)
The Left is getting its royal ass kicked over DD, so now all reality shows have to suffer. There was no outrage over that gay dude on Survivor or people eating pig's lungs and horse testicles on "Fear Factor," no siree but along comes a Christian man stating his beliefs and now everybody needs to suffer.
How do the Kardasions manage to stay in the news almost daily. I have never seen the show and find what I see on the news offensive.
Concur.
Except that many channels cannot afford any other type of programming. They could revert to retro programming, but we are already inundated with those.
Several cable channels add a few scripted short-season programs. Those programs have moderate successes. The TV/Cable TV industry are still trying to figure out an effective model for income production while competing against the Internet.
Three decades ago, a broadcast network frequently got over 20 million viewership. Now, they struggle to get 10 million. Most of them actually own several cable channels.
Reality shows are cheap to make.
In the 70s, soap operas got better ratings than game shows (in general), but game shows were cheaper than soap operas, so they proliferated.
That depends on the reality show. Sone are better than others.
The author does speak truth. We don’t have TV in our house, but I occasionally tap the remote in a hotel room. Watching reality TV, including DD for just a few minutes, I have the physical sensation of intelligence leaving my body.
You go, Nazi Girl, you go!
If you block A&E, you probably need to also block these channels in the A&E Networks:
A&E
Bio
Crime & Investigation Network
History
H2
History en Español
Lifetime
LMN
Lifetime Real Women
Military History
Don’t forget the Masturbation Network and Monday Night Rehabilitation
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