TV sucks. You can't interact with it at all. When I visit friends and they're watching TV, no-one talks to or even looks at each other. What fun is that? Books don't talk back to you like the internet does, but you can use what you've read to start a conversation. But TV's so vapid there's nothing you can take away from it, and while it's on, no-one wants to contribute anything.
Off topic, but in reply to Coffee. A few years back I got to hang out with some real artists and poets at a coffeehouse. There were musicians too (I was one of those). One night we all had a gourmet dinner at one of the artists' homes. I thought, "This is cool. Real poets and writers and artists, just like the Beats or Bloomsbury or whatever." Well, the TV was on. It was the film "Once Upon a Time in the West." That TV just sucked everybody right into it. There were no anticipated intelligent conversations. C'est la vie.
My T.V. hours are reducing weekly. I'm finding cable-tv extremely boring, corrupted, predictable and not very entertaining.
About the only thing I've enjoyed of late is HBO's "Rome". If I lived on my own I'd cancel cable.
I watch quite a bit of internet TV also now, I suspect more than cable... Bloomberg, Mania-TV, CCTV, C-SPAN are all actually worth watching.
thejoyofrex
Dec 29, 2005 7:42am
Oh god I've been looking for this group! Home at last! I'm going to have to find a way of uploading a photo of what I did to my telly onto this discusion... Not pretty!
Nice to see that there are planty of like minded people around. I was aware of most of these things, but I do have one problem.
"... are unaware the Food and Drug Administration does NO testing of food or drugs. They only set guidelines and review the testing corporations do of their own products."
This is not at all true. My wife (a chemist) wakes up every morning and heads to her FDA lab to test food. She tests imported foods that are sold in America for Dioxins, a type of carcinogen. While it's true that the FDA investigates corporations and their methods, it's not the ONLY thing they do. And it is not true that they do "NO testing of food."
I am aware of many of these things, in fact, most of these things are wrongly stated, this is just propoganda to make people think they are more aware but not really.
Still, far less inaccurate than general "informed populus'" perception. You can argue the questionable validity of one or two bullets, but the real 'propaganda' is coming from the pitiful handful of US-based mainstream news sources, funded by people who pay for their own entry into the American zeitgeist.
If you think the that mainstream media is, in the least little bit, involved in traditional, hard-nosed, objective investigative journalism; then the conclusion of the article certainly applies to you.
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