Tropple, your words are eloquent. I whole-heartedly agree. What made me think is your comment about how the programming on even TLC, the Food Channel, etc., is just a pimped up version of gameshows. I used to love watching TLC and Discovery because they actually had programs that I could learn something from. But now, you are right, it is exactly crap; what to wear, how to design a room on $1000...
Although I do enjoy some of these shows because it doesn't cater to negative stereotypical slurs and/or scrape the bottom of the barrel, it does in a way make me yearn for a once forgotten way of tv. And it makes me think how even those programs have been dumbed down for my entertainment. So now a dilema, turn off the tv for good? I mean now that I think about it, nothing on tv really has any real value anymore.
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That is my 2 cents.
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