Well, to start off, Television can be good, or bad. The good part for me is the News to see what is going around the world, and the bad side is the "playboy" and violent shows that are bad for children, and maby even for adults! but I still like Tom&Jerry and other cartoons.
I'll agree with you there. I see the conservative, Republican-based, news reports on politics and world news as the worst part about television. I also hate the continuing coverage of pointless crap like the Laci Peterson murder trial garbage. Well, I wish I had the Playboy channel! I don't really care about the "violent shows" though. Actually, now that I think about it, I can't even think of any actual "violent shows" on basic cable. I'm sure there are some, but I never see them. Of course you do! Who doesn't like classic, Saturday morning cartoons? Actually, my favorite part about television are the actual informational and educational programs that you sometimes see on the Discovery Channel and the History Channel. I figure if I'm going to sit in front of the T.V., I might as well learn something. The many reality shows are by far the most pointless things on T.V.
"Actually, my favorite part about television are the actual informational and educational programs that you sometimes see on the Discovery Channel and the History Channel. I figure if I'm going to sit in front of the T.V., I might as well learn something. The many reality shows are by far the most pointless things on T.V." I AGREE WITH THAT 100% and now that I think about it, I kinda want the Playboy too!
Sounds like some of the debates concerning violence on TV in the late 60's. The Anti-Violence crowd cited The Three Stooges and Cartoon shows as examples. What they failed to mention, the Stooges and most of the cartoons at that time were released in the movie theaters 20-30 or so years earlier. What kids in the 1930s would see maybe once a week, if that often (the depression was still going on), kids would watch at home once a day - 5 days a week. If there were a "violence is OK" message, this message was reinforced 5 times a week. Evenually anti - cartoons which were aired as a result failed in the ratings. People, in other words, demanded softer toned programming. When they got it, they didn't support it. I do agree, Tom and Jerry are about the best Cartoons ever made. In Nov. 2001, I took a tour of Mainland China. The tour guide in Beijing mentioned about 8 years earlier they started to recieve American Cartoons, including Tom and Jerry. At first they didn't know what to make of them, but very quickly they gotten to be very popular.
