The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.
It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.
Television can be a very fickle place.
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
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.
You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
The gap between film and TV is narrowing, and that's great for us all.
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