What has happened to my
television?
I know a lot of you watch reality TV. So if you are a huge fan and love reality TV,
this is not going to be for you. I have never liked reality TV from its
inception. If they were after making the world a better place, they would never
show reality TV because, in their reality, people are petty, vindictive, sneaky
and just dishonest. These people should be ashamed to be a member of the human
race when such shows as the housewives of whatever city they're showing tonight
display some of the worst behavior in the world. They treat their partner like
they are just a commodity. The cast members are overbearing and hateful to
everyone around them and especially their spouses. I'm sure that some of you even
let your children watch this kind of reality show but what kind of message does
this send to these little boys and little girls? Is bad behavior what you want
your children to think is normal.
There are shows where they have prospective brides or grooms
that are looking to marry someone and there's either a harem of men or women
trying to make the bachelor or bachelorette pick them. I have to say that that
concept doesn't sound that bad, but when you see what these men and women will
do to try and get the attention of the opposite sex, and what they will say and
do to each other, it’s disgusting. Not only do they improperly seduce the
person that they're trying to woo, but they lie, scheme and cheat to get their
way to the top of the list. I guess that's why most marriages in this country end
in divorce because, I'm here to tell you, that's not how it's done. The
families that they pick to show in reality television are not from reality. The
“Kardoofusses” are a disgrace to womanhood. Talk about women using their men to
get where they want to be in life.
Now there were recently 10 people killed in the crash of two
helicopters in a French reality show called Dropped where they would drop the
contestants in the middle of the worst surroundings in the world and see what
it took for them to get back to civilization. Now I just want to ask you, is
that scenario not asking for disaster to happen and do you think that your
entertainment should be based on how dangerous it can be made for someone else.
Shows such as Survived stupidity, the Amazing Rat Race and any of these other
shows put people in various scenarios that could go horribly wrong and
eventually will. David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration said," it's remarkable that
production companies can use ultra-advanced technology to produce spectacular
entertainment but too often they won't spend the modest amounts of money
necessary to make sure their workers are not injured or killed on the
job." Injuries and fatalities went down for a while in TV and movie
production but recently injuries and fatalities have gone up again and it's
been blamed on reality and situation shows such as these.
I cannot stand to watch shows that pit people against each
other to win enormous amounts of money and encourage them to do whatever it
takes to win the game, however deceitful, malicious and wrong it may be. That
is disgusting television, not reality television. It used to be we taught our
children and ourselves and everyone we could teach that it's not whether you
win or lose its how you play the game. This was preached to us when we played
sports when I was a kid back in the 60’s and then as I got into high school, I
could see it changing at the college levels where everything depended on
whether you won that game or not. I don't know about you, but I don't want to
teach my sons and daughters and grandchildren to do whatever it takes to win.
It's not right and it's not ethical. I will give you a for instance.
There is a reality show where people travel throughout the
world and they are paired off in two’s. One of the pairs accidentally left some
money and some of their property lying around and another pair found it, and I
want to make this part perfectly clear. The group that found the money and
property knew exactly whose it was and they kept it and did not return it to
the pair that had lost it. In any court in the world, if you take something
knowing that it belongs to someone else, it is theft. I have never seen an
apology or punishment shown or written anywhere from the pair that stole the
money and property. I could go on and on about that one but it seemed to me
that they should have been brought up on criminal charges whether it was only a
TV show or not. They are now and for evermore criminals.
It should never in anyone's lifetime be alright to betray,
connive, steel or hurt anyone to win a game, especially one that's being broadcast
on television for everyone to see in prime time, including kids. I know you're
thinking, well, not everything has to be for children and I do agree with you,
but the thing that I want to impress on you is that kids are watching this sort
of stuff. Women do not have to act like, well excuse me I hate this word but I
can't think of a better word to use (and I have already cleaned it up), harletts,
to get their way in this world. Men do not have to treat their women poorly
either and they do not have to cheat on their spouses. You don't have to lie
and steal to get your way in this world and unfortunately the shows are
teaching just that.
I am not a prude, I do know that these things go on and
they're done every day, but why must we subject ourselves to this and call it
entertainment. Is a life worth the entertainment value that the shows give you,
is it worth teaching young girls to act like the women in these shows, is it
really good values to put winning first before anything else. If the producers
of these shows think that I am too harsh then why did they publicize the fact
that this couple that stole the money was not punished nor were the people that
lied or cheated? In other reality shows people were also not punished because
of evil acts that they were the perpetrators of. If you say well that's what
makes it fun then I want to ask you what has happened to your values. I
remember when I watched television when someone stole something from someone
else they were brought to justice. On today's TV landscape, if you steal
something for somebody, you're rewarded and they say you were thinking
out-of-the-box. Seems to me you had your fingers in someone else's box where
they shouldn't have been. I hear so many times people say let's put God back in
our government. I say before we put God back in our government. Let's put God
back in our lives and demand that these types of shows cease and desist with
immoral and unconscionable acts. Seems to me when someone should be voted off
the island, it would be because they had cheated and connived and went behind
each other's backs. I know a lot of you will dislike what I have written, but I
can't help how I feel and I feel that the shows are tearing down the moral
conscience and compass of our country.
If Andy Griffith had done something wrong and little Opie
Taylor confronted his dad about it, he was man enough to admit he had done
wrong and would make it right. In today's TV, it would have been accepted because
the end result justified the means. God help us when our favorite shows on
television have no morality at all. What is the world of entertainment coming
to.
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