Quoting Horse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [Platt] > > You mean you have to pay to listen to Big Brother? Orwell is rolling in his > > grave, poor chap. > >
[Horse] > Well, comparing the Quality of the garbage that gets shipped in from the > USA and the much higher Quality programming which the BBC produces, > give me Big Brother any day (not the reality TV show crap). Most of the > US stuff is aimed at the lowest common denominator and the problem there > is that you get the lowest common denomination. There are a few US > produced things which aren't too bad but most of it really is dire and > it seems to be little more than filler in between the ads. Your program > producers also seem to try and turn anything vaguely popular into a > soap. God help us if that's the future of TV! At least the Beeb does > provide a large amount of good comedy, documentary, satire, music, plays > etc. and doesn't seem overly concerned about upsetting some with > unpopular or different points of view. And they also have the advantage > that they don't need to worry about if and/or when they might upset some > company which pays the bills through advertising. That's where the real > problem lies with advert sponsored TV such as you have in the US. > So thanks but I'll stick with Big Brother, no ads and high Quality > programs and you can keep the programs which don't offend the precious > corporations. Far be it for me to defend the quality of U.S. television. It truly is a vast wasteland. Come the moral revolution, the lowest common denominator will no longer prevail because through education and tough love, there won't be a lower denominator. But, that's a ways off. If you like Big Brother's TV more power to you. As for me, no thanks. With their good stuff comes their propaganda stuff that I would just as soon live without. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
