Reply #24: There are a few factors at work

[teryang]

The first is demographic. People over fifty generally don't like television because it isn't targeted at mature interests.

The second is the content. Listening to news broadcasts and "serious" talking heads is like listening to non-stop propaganda. Listening to public officials is listening to non stop lies. It's a complete bore, not just because of the content or ideology. Most of it is just dumbed down clap-trap. The experts are there to tell us how to interpret events. Why? I feel like someone living in totalitarian Russia. There is rarely any genuine dialogue, just bullet points from the media trained with snappy retorts and jingos. The token progressives are ... well I won't say for fear of offending some, but they appear to be charicatures of real people. Their dialogue has to be carefully monitored or they will be jettisoned like passports on a highjacked 757. It is not edifying in least, so why watch? Many of the hosts and guests are downright offensive. If they acted as they do on camera in public, someone would just tell them to shut the f... up. You reach a stage when you know your institutions and government are just a corrupt and cruel farce.

Who wants to invite that garbarge into their home? That's what it really is garbage. I don't even read the posts that refer to these people on television. Hey did you hear what so and so said? No, I don't give a s..t in the least.

The entertainment isn't very good either, sometimes I watch the comedies and the classic movies. I'd shut the cable off, it's not worth what it costs, not just in money but in commercial output, it's wasting my time. But others in the family like to watch cartoons, the food channel, and the weather.