Any attempt to rein in the filth on television is absurd; more so when the effort is only directed at offensive words:
Going after pictures on television where:
ain’t going to happen in a country where the porn industry’s sex movies is a multibillion dollar industry.
And it is insulting to even say that the airwaves belong “. . . to all Americans . . . ”:
FACT: The airwaves belong to the advertising industry. The cat was out of the bag when the government did away with analog television transmissions. Americans who supposedly “owned” the airwaves did not get a vote when hundreds of new advertising platforms were created by digital transmissions. The switch going from analog to digital was akin to a one-page newspaper increasing its size to ten pages for the sole purpose of creating more advertising space.
The only way to rein in offensive words and pictures on television is to eliminate the tax deduction for advertising. That is not going to happen because product and service advertising pays for every minute of political propaganda filth.
I doubt if there is a way eliminate tax dollar political propaganda without triggering the anger of product and service advertisers. As far as I am concerned to hell with them. They always knew that their tax deductions paid for every bit of the garbage television spewed on this country from the beginning. So I repeat: To hell with them.
No one (except me) is calling for the elimination of political propaganda. Indeed, television news is out-and-out political propaganda, while the content in entertainment shows contain a liberal dose of liberalism.
Finally, advertising on the Internet is also a tax deduction. On the plus side, the government and TV propagandists have been burning the midnight oil for at least two decades trying to come up with a way to censor free speech on the Internet without damaging television’s income. Basically, if tax deductible advertising is eliminated to get at the Internet television will die the death of a thousand cuts while freedom of speech on the Internet grows stronger.
p.s. Motion picture industry tax dollar subsides are kissin’ cousins of tax dollar funded political advertising, while subsidies deserve a thread of their own.
p.p.s. Porn movies are the only movies that do not need government subsidies for survival.
America may no longer be the world of Opie Taylor on “The Andy Griffith Show” and the Beaver and Wally on “Leave it to Beaver,” but a television monitoring organization is expressing disbelief that the nation has decayed to the point that the words “a–, b—-, butthead, douche, slut, slut shamer, slut bag and slut basket” are acceptable content – for just one sentence on just one television show for children during prime time.
Going after pictures on television where:
. . . nudity is acceptable.
ain’t going to happen in a country where the porn industry’s sex movies is a multibillion dollar industry.
And it is insulting to even say that the airwaves belong “. . . to all Americans . . . ”:
“For most of the 20th century, the entertainment industry acted responsibly in keeping entertainment appropriate for all audiences, in the awareness that television was ‘a guest in the home.’ From 1934, when the Federal Communications Commission first set up statutes regulating the airwaves, to the 1970s, when the Supreme Court reaffirmed them, and up to the present day, it has been the law that the airwaves are public property belonging to all Americans,” the report said.
Whoa! TV content hits new low in 1 sentence on 1 show
Posted By Bob Unruh On 04/07/2016 @ 8:14 pm
Whoa! TV content hits new low in 1 sentence on 1 show
Posted By Bob Unruh On 04/07/2016 @ 8:14 pm
Whoa! TV content hits new low in 1 sentence on 1 show
FACT: The airwaves belong to the advertising industry. The cat was out of the bag when the government did away with analog television transmissions. Americans who supposedly “owned” the airwaves did not get a vote when hundreds of new advertising platforms were created by digital transmissions. The switch going from analog to digital was akin to a one-page newspaper increasing its size to ten pages for the sole purpose of creating more advertising space.
The only way to rein in offensive words and pictures on television is to eliminate the tax deduction for advertising. That is not going to happen because product and service advertising pays for every minute of political propaganda filth.
I doubt if there is a way eliminate tax dollar political propaganda without triggering the anger of product and service advertisers. As far as I am concerned to hell with them. They always knew that their tax deductions paid for every bit of the garbage television spewed on this country from the beginning. So I repeat: To hell with them.
No one (except me) is calling for the elimination of political propaganda. Indeed, television news is out-and-out political propaganda, while the content in entertainment shows contain a liberal dose of liberalism.
Finally, advertising on the Internet is also a tax deduction. On the plus side, the government and TV propagandists have been burning the midnight oil for at least two decades trying to come up with a way to censor free speech on the Internet without damaging television’s income. Basically, if tax deductible advertising is eliminated to get at the Internet television will die the death of a thousand cuts while freedom of speech on the Internet grows stronger.
p.s. Motion picture industry tax dollar subsides are kissin’ cousins of tax dollar funded political advertising, while subsidies deserve a thread of their own.
p.p.s. Porn movies are the only movies that do not need government subsidies for survival.
