Thursday, February 2, 2012

Revolt From Television

Just a few more comments with regard to television. Consider cancelling your cable for awhile, just to see how well you live without it. If enough of us do that from time to time, we can influence our corporate masters. (Gore Vidal turned me on to the term "corporate masters", while convincing me that they indeed are).

We can respond to them that we insist on better intellectual content, and a reasonable limit to advertising time. This business of having 22 minutes of commercials for a one hour program is a bit, shall we say, "over the edge"?

Throw a few good looking gals on the screen, stress 'em out, let 'em argue and fight, over sex and money, switch to commercial.   Shock, seduce, sell. The magic television formula of our corporate masters. If only it didn't work quite so well...

Just try to get some high quality intellectual content on television.. See what happens. Or go ask Buster Keaton,Orson Welles, Rod Serling, Ray Bradbury, Gene Roddenbery, Alan Alda, and a host of other writers, what happens when artistic creativity and quality dare seek an audience.

The decision makers'll send us right back to the buxom blonde bashers.

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