"What you observe is a great wasteland."

[longship]

5. Since when was it in the people's interest to make them ignorant?

That's what Minow was trying to say.

What a great tool modern media is. One can use to help people to learn, or one can suppress people with ignorance.

The only Sitcom I ever watched regularly was Seinfeld. In spite of its insipid --and apparently obligatory-- laugh track, it was the best because it relentlessly skewered the sitcom. It was a very risky endeavor and Jerry Seinfeld wrapped it up when he felt that he did as much damage as he was ever going to do.

Even now comedies have a laugh track. It's like having some gross dude sitting next to you elbowing you in the ribs every time he thinks something is funny. Of course, almost all the comedy is sophomoric, adolescent humor. No one dares cross over the line.

For Christ sakes, Seinfeld had an episode on penis shrinkage. I dare TV to reproduce any semblance of that.