RANT- I cannot watch television anymore

With all this overhyped racial and self identifed victimization being pushed in News and in Hollywood, I am having a hard time watching television anymore without wanting to Elvis my TV. Every single person has a sob story and I'm getting so tired of watching our American culture deteriorate into such that we are becoming a nation of quivering whisker biscuits.


Its an older cartoon, targeted more to GWOT, but it still relates . . .

 

Moved this past year from an area where we could stream, to an area where now we cannot.

 

I'm not watching television for a long time. Cable fees are simply not cost-effective. Having said that...

Which are the "sob stories" you find so objectionable? Give example. It might be I just didn't se those, OR your perspective is just your perspective.

To start off: one event that was rather actively promoted in past few weeks (just because of the date) is Tulsa race massacre of 1921. It this a "sob story", or a legitimate topic for reflection? Tulsa race massacre - Wikipedia

 

I'm talking about something as simple as American Idol. Every contestant has some sob story. Watch something like a cooking competition on the Food Network, every contestant has some sob story. Follow any story line on television today, and they all have some back story making the character out to be someone who overcame some sort of tragedy. Its like everyone is a professional victim and that mindset is being fed to everyone by Hollywood.

Most Americans are becoming hyper sensitive and extremely soft. For those who have traveled abroad, and have seen some of the REAL serious issues others face, it makes our intreputation laughable by comparison.

 

Oh, I can assure you: it‘s not only an American problem...

 

"Whisker biscuits"? I gave up TV when I was twelve.

 

Military term, not main stream.

 

Must be Army. Never heard of it in the Nav.

 

Television is a conditioning box. It makes you believe what they want you to believe instead of what is the truth. Even on the news rather locally and nationally, they talk about black-on-black crime. There is no such thing as that because crime is associated with your environment and who you live around which typically most people live around who they ethnically identify as. When it is white on white, Asian on Asian, Hispanic on Hispanic, etc. it's just called crime. However, for African Americans it is black-on-black crime. We have always been associated with what's negative and negatives in other communities are rarely spoken about in such a negative light. This goes the same way with music and other forms of entertainment in the black community.

 

Television is a dangerous device because it invites people to spend their lives passively watching it instead of actively living their lives. The waste is terrifying to contemplate.

 

The irony for me is that I worked at an Albuquerque TV station in the early '80s. I don't like television but the industry itself is fascinating.

 

No, I think it's more that working in television is not a passive activity like watching TV is.

 

Cut the cord in the 90s. Haven't had cable/sat or even an antenna for the local news since then.... have no interest in ever having it again. Still download/stream a few select shows... but have no interest in 90% of what's out there... and certainly no interest in cable news.

 

It's a statistic that shouldn't be ignored but why do we not hear about anything violent that goes on in the other communities and when we do, their faces are not shown but black faces are plastered all over the screen. It just seems to me that our population is always the face of bad news. That's the main reason I have turned the television off. In addition to that, I don't listen to modern music by the black community either because of the violent, abusive, and oversexed lyrics.

 

I don't think anyone is proposing that it be ignored. What I think is that sometimes those crime statistics are used to imply that blacks are more inclined to commit crimes. What is really going on is that it is not really so much a racial thing as it is a poverty thing. Poor people are more likely to commit crimes. Because of systemic racism blacks are much more likely to be living in poverty.