TV Watching with the Masses

So I joined the masses and watched Dancing with the Stars last night, until, after about five minutes, the constant emphasis on “How did you FEEL being on this program?” led me to turn it off.

If Dancing with the Stars had a feature in which, instead of asking Bristol Palin how she feels being on the program, they asked me how I feel WATCHING the program, I would tell them that to live in a culture in which DWTS is a mass phenomenon and one of the most popular programs on television does not fill me with delight.

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November 25

IW writes from England:

We have a similar television programme in this country (England) though I don’t think it goes by that name. My wife and daughter watch it and so do their friends and they chat about it. I tend to avoid most television—with the exception of the occasional film or maybe some kind of natural history thing I find television dull. Anyway, to get to the point—I made a point of watching this dancing thing and really it wasn’t as awful as I imagined. I’m not going to tune in regularly, that’s for sure, but it didn’t offend me. There was no political correctness, and that makes a refreshing change for English TV, and the ‘stars’ were almost human. I saw it as light entertainment, not for everybody, that’s for sure, but there was no ‘message’ and I’d much rather that topped the ratings than any of the nasty politically motivated soap operas that rule our airwaves.

David M. writes:

“If Dancing with the Stars had a feature in which, instead of asking Bristol Palin how she feels being on the program, they asked me how I feel WATCHING the program, I would tell them that to live in a culture in which DWTS is a mass phenomenon and one of the most popular programs on television does not fill me with delight.”

It does not fill me with delight that television overflows with emasculate-my-husband-hah-hah-hah programs.

It does not fill me with delight that there are television programs built around humiliating stunts.

It does not fill me with delight that there are television programs wherein white males are portrayed as ignorant or just plain stupid, bigoted, clumsy, uninformed, or inept, and that there is always a black, a female, or a black female to Show Him The Reality.

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