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Originally Posted by Raddo
That good stuff still exists, but it doesn't generate viewers, listeners, or clicks, which are the only things the media is concerned with.
There is no meltdown. It is just media causing the gullible sheeple to focus on (and click on) the bad stuff. Plenty of good is still out here.
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Its' rather sad that after all these generations, the Media has not gotten past the "If It Bleed's, It Leads"...
However, it does not diminish the vile in society, in some ways between the media, and commercial TV with all the "shows depicting some type of crime" or "destruction"... our society no longer promotes cultural concerns of the tonality that once was promoted.
Even though back in time there was not enough diversity in TV programming, but at least the themes of the shows still conveyed a 'family viewing tonality".. the only thing truly lacking in the 1950's and 1960's shows was "promoting cultural and ethnic diversity"..
IF we had set the modeling to promote imagery that met all of America that would have been good, but also to stick with "themes" that defaulted to family values, ethics and such things.
Even the Old Westerns, had "ethic based themes in a wide variety of their shows".
I never cared for Soap Opera's as it was always people who did not work, or they worked in areas that was pretentious, and the over riding tonality was, adultery !!!! swindling, scheming to create Adultery, and people caught in psychological crisis behind Adultery and Money all "wrapped in a spin of vanity's consumption".
Reality TV came with crazed stuff like Jerry Springer, and Justice was made into Mockery with the Court Series type shows. Show like Springer ushered in "belligerence amplified", with the promotion of debauchery of any and every type, displayed with the consumption of all ethnic groups.
Then came the "DRUG" that far exceeded the drug culture of the late 1960's !!! The 1980's DRUG Culture
did not miss any segment of society, we even had a switch up, to the old concept of the Housewife imagery, to flip and become attired as the once street walker, and the street walkers became to be a mix of all things, including Burlesque Imagery on the Street.
People rarely left home to even go to the corner store without checking their grooming standards to ensure they made the best presentation of themselves.
Even Jobs, there were standards that were just generalized in the business environments. If there was a Uniform, it was to be worn tidy and laundered.
What is more interesting is, how many Foreign Nations adopted those standards in area that did not already have it... and we began to move away for it, to the "anything goes".
We now have kids with tattoo's when the system claims one must be 18, that has been fairly much ignored. We have now teens who do not require corrective plastic surgery, but are getting fad cosmetic surgery, even before their normal adult looks have established itself of their person.
Underage sex and drinking only applies to the poor, as the wealthy indulge freely at a far younger age and commercialism promotes it in high frequency and broad saturation. Then we wonder why in the so called Main street American Kids gravitate to emulate what is presented to them in media content.
Even Fashion, they no longer wait to present imagery of women, they pursue girls the minute they turn 14 and make them up to push high fashion, as if their bodies will be the same when they are matured adults, which in turn.. makes matured adults send themselves into psychological spins, trying to look like a undeveloped 14 yrs old, in face and body imagery. Many claim depression when they can't make themselves of such imagery.
The media focused on all people "younger than 40" as if that is the make up of society. Now when one is 50, they are practically made to be 'unemployable", simply by age and matured imagery.
We need more promotion of what is good and real and some methods to build media in this age of technology that presents more full spectrum that focuses on the good people do. One might find one "Good Character" story in a few weeks time, but most get no traction and fade into the background, after the first group of advertiser push their products, and the advertising profits are not rising, it is pulled in an instance.
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