His arguement falls apart when we consider that all these networks respond to viewers wants and desires.

No one frankly wants to see how planes bomb the shit out of people.

People would rather see tits and ass.

Imposing ones own perceptions about what people ought to do, think or say is just as bad as a society that willingly shuts its eyes to reality.

We simply love living in an illusion. Because its safe and comforting.

And that is a good part of the reason I find the world in general so depressing.

"I am Nott Good."

Obviously addressing men specifically, but I don't think he even realizes it. I would be in that gallery if there was something to look at other than tits and asses, if it were worthwhile. So would many others. We all like 'sexy' things but sexy is relative. Tits and asses? That's an extremely 'masculinist' point of view.

Man, this guy could really start a backlash against Britney. Leave her alone!

>> ^Farhad2000:
His arguement falls apart when we consider that all these networks respond to viewers wants and desires.
No one frankly wants to see how planes bomb the shit out of people.


I see how you can come to that conclusion, but as I listened to him, I think his point wasn't that you should show actual nasty things, but how the flaky happy stuff they show us is its own kind of nasty. I don't think the dots were connected to well but that's where it took me.

I'd say that he's espousing some strong *femme-inist thinking in a very classical/'good' sense.

Adding video to channels (Femme) - requested by Krupo.

Moving this video to Raigen's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

"Most people do not pray; they only *beg."
-George Bernard Shaw

Sending this video to Beggar's Corner to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Raigen.

all i could think about when i saw this title was this song from a chorus line. so yeah, the argument's been made before

Matthew Good Band "Underdogs".. one of the most underrated albums of all time if you ask me. Each song is classic in its own way.

>> ^Farhad2000:
His arguement falls apart when we consider that all these networks respond to viewers wants and desires.

I disagree. Newton Minow ranted about this in 1961 because he saw what was coming. If television was a vaste wasteland back then, it's an infinite wasteland now.

To quote him.

"I do not accept the idea that the present over-all programming is aimed accurately at the public taste. The ratings tell us only that some people have their television sets turned on and of that number, so many are tuned to one channel and so many to another. They don't tell us what the public might watch if they were offered half-a-dozen additional choices. A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them. Unfortunately, it does not reveal the depth of the penetration, or the intensity of reaction, and it never reveals what the acceptance would have been if what you gave them had been better -- if all the forces of art and creativity and daring and imagination had been unleashed. I believe in the people's good sense and good taste, and I am not convinced that the people's taste is as low as some of you assume."

End quote.

Television networks don't respond to viewers wants and desires, they create them. I think that abdicating their power onto the shoulders of the people indemnifies them from any responsibility, and that's disingenuous at best. Although that's exactly what they would want you to do.