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-They don't want stability. They don't want mtv and vh1 standing for music all the time. A&E standing for arts and entertainment. TLC promoting learning (Sarah Palin "I can see Russia from my house" is the antithesis of quality learning!). "They" (the govt, big media), don't want you falling into reliable habits. Of being able to depend on the same old thing, day in and day out. It'll always be there and you can rely on it. No, no, no. They want this subtle undercurrent of change, sci fi becoming syfy, vh1 becoming this. MTV not even standing for music anymore. But they still want your attention and want you to watch it. They make these changes so subtly and gradually, they want you to get use to it and accept it.
Hmmmm. Sound familiar to what's been going on in the last 10-15 years? Things not standing for what they seem?? The TSA? Airport security? Threats in Iraq? WMD's? Jose Padilla? Constitutional infringements that seem so minor. What's the big deal? Sound familar? What's the big deal about these little changes. The two are not an idle coincidence. I think the big media conglomerates, and the government want this undercurrent of instability and change, while keeping this surface level facade that everything is ok.
-2nd, the dumbing down of television has gone right in tandem with the schools. They don't want little Johnny sneaking out of class (and actually learning something, gasp!) on tlc or a&e or biography. And raising his IQ by 10 points. No. They strip out content in books, just as they strip out what they're going to watch after school and at night. The dumbing down of school children has gone beyond the classroom. The 2nd teacher in America now is Snooki. These extra "teachers" ensure that 1/4 of highschool kids won't be able to pass a military entrance exam, that literacy rates remain low, remedial classes remain high, etc.
-3rd. They want idiot consumers, as it legitimizes the junk being sold. Do the big media conglomerates really want young consumers who can discern what quality music is? Of course not. So they get rid of the classics (nick at night, old songs from the 60's, real music on mtv). Suddenly the junk being produced by record companies is "good". Media greed goes unnoticed because consumers don't know what quality is anymore.
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