Re: What Are You Sick of Seeing?
TV has become a waste land....my favorite show is "Swamp People"..at least the people and the alligators are real!
"When television is good, nothing ? not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers ? nothing is better.But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your own television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a
vast wasteland.You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And endlessly commercials ? many screaming, cajoling, and offending. And most of all, boredom. True, you'll see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, I only ask you to try it."
A speach given in 1961 by then FCC chairman Newton N. Minow... Not much has changed.
Other things that I'm sick of seeing;
-When traffic stops or slows on the highway, some take it upon them self's to turn the break down lane into their own personal lane. Usually the elitists driving a luxury European vehicle who feel they are above all others on the road.
- As mentioned before, celebrities who are celebrities because they are celebrities; I.E. my daddy was on OJ's defense team long before I "mattered", or my family owns a large hotel chain.
- These mentioned "celebrities" blowing more cash than I will probably make in my life time, on anything (such as a wedding for a marriage that lasted 2 months).
- Celebrities in general telling me how to live my life, or attempting to influence political decisions made when they are completely out of touch with the common persons reality.
