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	The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. - Ray Bradbury	September 28, 2005	Tom Petty (singer) had this to say about television and Hollywood: "Only a sick culture would sexualize young girls. It's disgusting. It's not just pop music, it's fashion, it's TV, it's advertising, it's every element of our culture. Young women are not being respected, children aren't being respected. Why are we creating a nation of child molesters? Could it be that we're dressing up nine-year-old women to look sexy? And even if we're wrong, let's not do it anyway. I really don't put it past these advertising people to say, 'Well, look, we made a lot of money when we brought the nine-year-old out and made her look like a hooker. Let's do it again.' "

TV AND HOLLYWOOD Over the years I have found myself watching less and less television. I sometimes cause people to look at me funny when I respond to the inevitable "Do you watch..." questions with a firm shake of the head and "I don't watch tv." Near the end of my tv addiction, I was watching the news and C-SPAN. The news was depressing and slanted so far left that I felt insulted every time I turned on the tv. A magazine article by John Leo one day hinted that our outlook on life could improve just by turning off the tube. I tried it and haven't looked back. Here are some interesting facts: According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube. Percentage of households that possess at least one television: 99 Number of TV sets in the average U.S. household: 2.24 Percentage of U.S. homes with three or more TV sets: 66 Number of hours per day that TV is on in an average U.S. home: 6 hours, 47 minutes Percentage of Americans that regularly watch television while eating dinner: 66 Number of hours of TV watched annually by Americans: 250 billion Value of that time assuming an average wage of S5/hour: S1.25 trillion Number of minutes per week that parents spend in meaningful conversation with their children: 3.5 Number of minutes per week that the average child watches television: 1,680 Hours per year the average American youth spends in school: 900 hours Hours per year the average American youth watches television: 1500 Lemme tell you what I see, though. I see too damn many cliches for tv to be anything but intellectually insulting. Try these on for size: Business is bad. The evil corporations are always out to screw the innocent. (Corporations are public entities, owned by the average Joe-Schmuck on the street, and answerable to the public. Corporations are bad in Hollywood's view because they represent public* ownership of business, not government-owned socialism.) The government is always in a conspiracy to get you. (Hollywood likes this because it turns the viewer against anything governmental in the current US - easier to promote a change to socialism that way.) Religion is for the weak, hypocritical, or intellectually stunted. (How many movies have we seen where the religious people are sour hypocrites who are out to ruin other poeple's lives? The religious "J" word only makes an appearance as a cussword or to portray a really backwards believer. Hollywood has their own "J" word savior: whenever the world needs saving, get a Journalist.) Conservatives are always* the evil government villains. (I can't name a single movie where the government villain was a democrat. Can you? No, I didn't think so.) Gay is always better. (Homosexuality is always portrayed on the screen as wonderful, enlightened, "wholesome," and morally superior to heterosexuals. Nothing is ever mentioned of the promiscuity of the bathhouses and the thousands of "partners" the average homosexual goes through in just a single year, or even the slew of anal-related diseases so prevalent... Gay is "good" because it tears away at the moral fabric of marriage and the values of this country.) Women do everything better than men. (Lifetime especially cliches this one to death. Men are totally useless buffoons who can't even be proper cops. It's always up to the woman to do it right. Men are so stupid on the screen that you have to wonder how a male-dominated society for the last 2,000 years was able to progress at all.) Unlimited sex is great. (Sex in all forms is portrayed on the screen as something everyone does with everyone else. Adultery is good, prostitution is good, incest is good, pedophilia is good, and lesbianism is especially good in Hollywood's opinion.) Communism is always portrayed in a wholesome, romantic light. (Nothing is ever mentioned about the 100million+ deaths in the last 100 years directly due to communism, or the starvation, misery or suffering of those who disagree with communist ideals. To Hollywood, imprisoning journalists who expose the atrocities can't be done quick enough.) TV judges are almost always older, black women. Social workers are always kinky-haired black women with concerned worry wrinkles. (I've met a child protective services social worker. HE was a fat, bald man who happened to be white. You'll never see the reality in Hollywood.) The US Military is always wickedly mean and evil, but can never seem to win any battles due to their total lack of intelligence. (I can't recall a single movie in the last twenty years that portrayed the military or veterans in a good light except for the movie "Uncommon Valor.") Conservatives are always trying to censor sex out of everything. (This one is especially stupid since the commission they all refer back to is the Gore Commission - remember Tipper leading the charge to ban all sorts of crap she didn't approve of? HINT: Tipper Gore is a DEMOCRAT and wife to AL GORE.) Cigarettes are the devil, but marijuana is great. (I'm rather sick of hearing about smoking dangers and now second-hand smoke. Funny how second-hand smoke is somehow worse than smoking after its already been filtered through someone else's lungs. Yet, pot is wonderful with apparently ZERO smoke effects - everyone light up and sing kumbaya!) Parents are stupid, especially dads. Only the children really know anything. (Every single TV show I've seen with a traditionally structured family portrays the dad as a bumbling idiot who can't argue his way out of a paper sack. It makes you wonder what the hip, sarcastic, jaded mom ever saw in the idiot to ever marry him and have smarter-than-God kids.) If the anti-christ is portrayed in a movie, he's always American. ALWAYS. (The anti-christ never comes from the Seleucid portion of the old Greek leopard empire as according to prophecy in Daniel, no... that would mean the area currently within the boundaries of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Jordan. That would mean painting muslims in an evil light, and Hollywood would never do that.) If God and the Devil are portrayed, the devil is always a white man [never a woman - unless Hollywood wants to portray the devil as sexy], and God is always a black man. (I don't care what color God is portrayed as, but when it's always the same, every single time, you begin to see the message.) Conservatives are always labeled "right wing," "far right," or "radical conservative." (You never hear "left wing," "far left," or "radical liberal." When a liberal is described, it's almost always "moderate.") Did I list enough familiar cliches? Don't get me started on the non-political ones. Of course, the "media bias" rumor that liberals love to deny somehow keeps rearing its ugly head. Consider this: Bush won the popular vote over Kerry, 51-48. Among the supposed self-proclaimed "mainstream" media describing themselves as "moderates" and neither liberal nor conservative, only 19% could bring themselves to vote for Bush. These people claim to be mainstream? These people claim to be middle-of-the-road? The reality is that they are so far out of touch that they no longer understand what objectivity means. I find nothing redeeming in current tv programming, entertainment or news related. The much ballyhooed Fox news that is so very hated by the left ignores many stories that paint liberals in bad light. But they have no problem painting conservatives in bad light when it's all the rage. If any media source is "moderate," then it is Fox news. The other news sources are so pathetic that they aren't worth watching. So if not even the news is worth watching on tv, what is? Reruns of Lost in Space? Maybe. But for all the crap that TV spews at us every minute of every day, I have to ask myself if I would rather watch tv or eat out of the toilet. I lean towards the latter. What is there to do besides have your brains sucked out while you drool on the couch in a lobotomized stupor facing the tv? "Don't tell me to read a book." Well, why not? Not only does it exercise your brain, but you can read all sorts of subjects that you will never see on tv. Man has lived without the tv for thousands of years; claiming that the lack of tv would ruin your life or deprive you somehow is not grounded in reality. Other than watching my DVD collection of Millenium or X-Files, I keep my tv turned off. My life has been enriched without it. One final thought about the anti-American agenda of Hollywood and its attempt to destroy what we Americans value: Every time you buy a movie ticket or rent a video you are casting a vote and telling Hollywood 'That's what I want. Give me more of that kind of material.' Don't buy the ticket; you won't like the movie, anyway. Television "Culture" has an agenda... Did you know that the following Hollywood television and big-screen female fashions are all originated in the LESBIAN culture? Slashed jeans, flat shoes, mannish jackets... The "Meg Ryan" haircut... *Trucker hats, wallet chains, cowboy boots and straw Stetsons.... Details of that are HERE. HERE is a link showing the plethora of homosexual and lesbians that were included in most of the popular boob-tube shows. Return to the Index