Warning: Old Zebster rant.
When I worked in sales for a cable company, several times a day I would hear complaints that "there's nothing on TV," while you glance at their television to see it's on a "reality" show or some junk like Entertainment Tonight and copies of the worst tabloid rags are lying around their home telling you who's sleeping with who or who's pregnant with an alien baby or who has a crack habit.
America, you can complain all you want about what's on television but it's a simple matter of profit. Media companies only deliver what you and your neighbors watch and read. Advertisers will only spend their bucks on media that's being viewed by large numbers. The more sensational and scandalous, the more likely you are to want to know about it and then to know more about it. Your crap habit is out of control and the media companies don't mind as long as it's profitable.
Why are our television shows, newspapers and magazines filled with salacious stories about celebrities? Because for some reason that I'm unable to fathom, you want to know about that shit. Just last night my local NBC affiliate showed a segment during the 6:00 news where they were trying to get a peek of Taylor Swift filming a music video in Kennebunkport, ala TMZ. At least they led with the fatal shooting by police officers of a Marine veteran shooting a gun outside the VA Hospital in Togus, but then again that still fits the profile. To you sheep it's less a news story and more a sensational story.
Here's something for you to chew on: In the three years I was selling cable I was in thousands of homes. If I was in a home that had scandal rags lying around and they also had a cable news channel turned on, every single time it was the same one. I'll let you guess which one and you can decide for yourself what to make of that.
You claim to hate the paparazzi but they're the ones feeding your insatiable appetite for crap. There's obviously money to be made stalking celebrities.
So don't complain to the networks or your cable salesman, complain to your neighbors and take a look in the mirror.
1 comment:
My friend you have perfect timing. I had to exchange my DVR box and because of an outage they could not reprogram it with the channels I signed up for for several hours. I got stuck watching Entertainment Tonight and I was treated to a double dose of Dina Lohan and Kate Gosselin back to back. I kept screaming at the television "Stop the Linsanity!" every so often but all was well when NHL Network came back on.
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