Back on May 5, 2008, I posted a blog note about the sleazy TV show - "Gossip Girl." Well, Gossip Girl is in the news again - see the article in Newsweek. It appears that the geniuses who produce this sleazefest have decided to quote the show's critics in advertising posters promoting the new season of raunch. So, for example, one ad quotes Parents Television Council which had called the program, "Mind-Blowingly Inappropriate." If you have the maturity of a 14-year-old boy this is probably mind-bogglingly clever.
I prefer to see these ads as another a piece of evidence that this country needs cable choice (a la carte) more than ever. Parents need to be able to block networks like CW - even though it is a broadcast channel - from entering their home. Perhaps then the folks at CW and Gossip Girl will be less like likely to mock the decent Americans who really do care about the welfare of teenagers and young adults more than the prospect of selling ads and making buckets of money. Oh, sorry, I should have said - producing great art.
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Some may decide to round figures to 3 decimal place, some may choose to round to 2 decimal places etc. Genevieve Figures
July 25, 2008 12:07 AM | Comment Permalink
I really have no opinion about "Gossip Girl" one way or another. It appears to be just another teenybopper show that I'll never watch ... although any show that causes such wailing and gnashing of teeth at the Family Research Council can't be ALL bad.
One thing I will agree with you about, though: Cable choice. If I could pick which channels I wanted to receive, I'd save money. GONE would be all the home shopping channels, the sports channels, and best of all, all the religious channels like CBN, TBN, and Fox News.
July 26, 2008 7:04 AM | Comment Permalink
Yes, I work at FRC and just wish to note the utility and wisdom of this comment. Cable choice is neither a conservative nor liberal issue; it is a matter of restoring a genuine free market in the pay TV world. Technology may get us there inevitably but a policy push is needed now to accelerate this process. If I don't wish to watch and pay for 150 channels, and my neighbor has a different 150 channels on his or her list, we still have the principle of choice in common. Now that the XM-Sirius merger is through the FCC gauntlet, we have a new model for choice (picking and paying only for select channels) on satellite radio. We can do the same for television - and the presidential candidates should be asked what they would do to bring this to pass.
July 26, 2008 3:47 PM | Comment Permalink