It used to be
bad manners to "
air your dirty laundry" in
public; now it's a
billion-dollar national
affair. Just one more little
proof that
money can and will just run right over any sort of
morality,
manners, or
class that get put in its way.
Let's see...first, there's
Divorce Court, one of the great
travesties of our time. Billboards for this
cheap gossip are splashed all over
my city, and quite a few others, I'm sure. Nice
warmfuzzy slogans like "When 'I do' becomes 'I don't'!" and "Weren't invited to the
wedding? Don't miss the
divorce!" inundate us and our kids all day long (but we have a problem with
South Park). The show itself is
ninety percent fat, ugly, stupid and worthless people
bitching at their fat, ugly, stupid and worthless
counterparts about how they're fat, ugly, stupid and worthless. Oh, and somebody--probably
coerced by the
producer or something--almost always starts yelling about how their partner
specifically sucks in bed. Even IF the show was at all
interesting or
worth a shit in the first place, the
visual of fat, ugly, stupid, worthless people
boinking would make me
change the channel anyway.
And then, of course, let's not forget
Who Wants To Marry A Multi-Millionaire, which is either
dead or
dying as I write this, thank the gods. On THAT show, we got to see
women even Bill Clinton wouldn't touch trying to prove that they were "
good enough" to attract the favors of men who--in spite of being
bloody filthy rich--STILL had to go on a
game show to get hitched. Ooh,
hold me back. Granted, this one show had the
bonus of being incredibly
degrading, not to any group in particular, but to the
whole human race at once. That takes
work.
Now, what type of
public flogging would it take for a) the
pathetic people to quit whining on
national tv, and for b) national tv to quit
depressing everyone by constantly focusing on pathetic people?
Anyone? Hello?