Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:38:34 +0100, Hadron wrote:
>
>> "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> It's a crying shame, as we're likely to end up with US-style
>>>> television, at which point, you might as well junk your television
>>>> and do almost anything else instead.
>>>
>>> It's nearly like that already.
>>
>> Come to Germany. It's like they buy ALL the worst ideas and then get
>> some cheesy 70s pop icon to present them. The BBC is, however, going
>> that way unfortunately. Just listening to Radio 4 I can see hear
>> difference from 10 years ago. I avidly read the BBC news pages every day
>> - they're getting more and more sensational and "bracketing" everything
>> in order divert anything that might be seen as provocative or
>> inaccurate. A crying shame. It was one of the last "G"s in GB.
>
> TV in the USA sucks.
> Reality shows, MTV garbage and the same movie re-runs over and over again.
>
> The only things I watch are History Channel, Discovery and National
> Geographic. I also like Nick at Nite /TVLand which runs older shows from
> the 50s, 60s and 70s.
>
> Other than that, they can keep the other 400+channels.
Actually I quite like Bayern TV and Phoenix. Phoenix is good for
documentaries but tends to concentrate too much on Germany's role in the
past two world wars. It can be quite disconcerting to be eating dinner
to look up and see a bulldozer piling up starving corpses for the 1000
time in a month. The rest is generally complete junk. They have taken
"reality" shows to a new level - half of them aren't even "reality"! The
court room ones in particular (featuring people who appear to be right
off Jerry Springer) are a con as they are all actors - but their subjects
are a hoot "I caught my wife in bed with a black man and now I want her
to pay me money for life" and so forth (and you know they all have stone
washed jeans and mullets).
http://www.mulletsgalore.com/
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