TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.
Reality TV rots people's brains.
But reality television is here to stay.
I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.
Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.
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