A NEW MOVEMENT: I am starting a movement right here today. It is for the salvation of all Americans. The movement will BAN reality television! The American people are getting dumber...

Menkaure Loc: Michigan

I am starting a movement right here today. It is for the salvation of all Americans. The movement will BAN reality television! The American people are getting dumber than the couch they are sitting on!
Write your congressman! Picket the White House! Change your channel before it's too late! Save our last remaining brain cells!

Michael Hartley Loc: Deer Capital of Georgia

I SECOND the motion!

Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

Here, here! The most real thing about reality TV shows is that they are NOT real!!

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

It's not just reality shows, most of what's on TV is senseless garbage. The "Gossip" shows (Inside edition, et al), the phony awards shows, it's all garbage...

papayanirvana Loc: Kauai

Menkaure wrote:

I am starting a movement right here today. It is for the salvation of all Americans. The movement will BAN reality television! The American people are getting dumber than the couch they are sitting on!
Write your congressman! Picket the White House! Change your channel before it's too late! Save our last remaining brain cells!

Do we really want to gut the 1st amendment? Banning reality TV will just send the populace to monster-truck rallys and whatever...

I think you just need one of these:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Toshiba_Remote_Control_CT-9863.jpg

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

I am usually influenced into having a "new movement" of my own every time one of those stupid programs comes on. ;)

papayanirvana Loc: Kauai

MT Shooter wrote:

I am usually influenced into having a "new movement" of my own every time one of those stupid programs comes on. ;)

it might have just been that pepperoni pizza :)

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

papayanirvana wrote:

it might have just been that pepperoni pizza :)

Ohhhhh, now ya done it, snowing outside and pizza sounds good!

Ambrose Loc: North America

Menkaure wrote:

I am starting a movement right here today. It is for the salvation of all Americans. The movement will BAN reality television! The American people are getting dumber than the couch they are sitting on!
Write your congressman! Picket the White House! Change your channel before it's too late! Save our last remaining brain cells!

Indeed. The irony is that these "reality" shows are themselves often scripted and contrived - and yet they are still void of anything contributing to culture or the betterment of the country.

"Good TV' these is extremely rare these days. I would consider the following as excellent television:

- Sherlock
- Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson
- House of Cards
- Rake (Australian version)

papayanirvana Loc: Kauai

Ambrose wrote:

Indeed. The irony is that these "reality" shows are themselves often scripted and contrived - and yet they are still void of anything contributing to culture or the betterment of the country.

"Good TV' these is extremely rare these days. I would consider the following as excellent television:

- Sherlock
- Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson
- House of Cards
- Rake (Australian version)

if you like unpolitically correct spy cartoons... check out Archer on netflix

tschmath Loc: Los Angeles

I has a friend whose son has worked on several of these shows, and he assured us they are all heavily scripted. There was one about using a metal detector to find buried treasure. My friend's son's job was to go bury stuff so that they could find it later. He buried some old bullets in the yard of a house that George Washington purportedly slept in, and the searchers magically discovered the bullets, which were then "verified" as authentic by some imposter.

cz3056 Loc: Somewhere in Michigan or Texas

Danilo wrote:

Here, here! The most real thing about reality TV shows is that they are NOT real!!

I agree. Just watch the news and watch what happens in DC. It just the same as a reality show. Nothing true!

DJ Mills Loc: Idaho

Menkaure wrote:

I am starting a movement right here today. It is for the salvation of all Americans. The movement will BAN reality television! The American people are getting dumber than the couch they are sitting on!
Write your congressman! Picket the White House! Change your channel before it's too late! Save our last remaining brain cells!

Good idea. Will you grant an exception for the conventions every four years?

Red Bear

Many of us are old enough to remember when all TVs were called "Idiot Boxes." It keeps becoming more obvious why that was aid. I remember an old ad on radio where two guys were arguing "radio" VS. TV. One said that they both "expanded the mind" - the the other said that TV only expanded the mind up to 21"

Tho only difference now is the larger screens - my mind gets "expanded" up to 72" now - and I have such poor eyesight that I can't watch it. I come here, or turn on a good radio station or read a book (I can see up close) and my mind expands throughout the universe.

kridlon Loc: massachusetts

I agree-we really should not ban them, even though they are really all garbage