If ever I feel the need to watch daytime TV, feel free to shoot me. TV has become utterly banal; maybe it always was but today it seems that the programming has been designed for those in care homes.
My first experience of TV was at my grandparents house when I was very small. memories are very thin but I do recall a tiny black and white screen that took an age to warm up and when switched off, the picture diminished slowly to a small bright dot that gradually faded. The only think I remember seeing was a program called What's my line? in which a group of posh people were required to guess the occupation of someone from the real world. Much later, when we were teens probably, my parents rented a TV and we began our absorption of whatever garbage was pumped into the house.
We are all influenced by what we see and hear, the news is carefully edited and filtered so as to make us think what we are meant to think and do as we are meant to do. In the meantime we sit on our sofas and get fat and unfit, consuming more and more garbage.
Radio is more stimulating in many ways and with digital systems there is so much to choose from. We recently bought a SONOS sound system and can now access digital radio stations or the music stored on my computer from all over the house. Listening to music means that I can forget about Brexit and Trump for a while and remember better times.
There is a petition around that is calling for the government to sell the BBC on the grounds that it has lost its independence, the right think that it is biased to the left and the left think that it is biased towards the right. Maybe they are both right and that it lies somewhere in the middle. We do need an information system that provides truth, though for many people the truth is what they want to believe, and I believe that daytime TV is the beginning of the end.
My first experience of TV was at my grandparents house when I was very small. memories are very thin but I do recall a tiny black and white screen that took an age to warm up and when switched off, the picture diminished slowly to a small bright dot that gradually faded. The only think I remember seeing was a program called What's my line? in which a group of posh people were required to guess the occupation of someone from the real world. Much later, when we were teens probably, my parents rented a TV and we began our absorption of whatever garbage was pumped into the house.
We are all influenced by what we see and hear, the news is carefully edited and filtered so as to make us think what we are meant to think and do as we are meant to do. In the meantime we sit on our sofas and get fat and unfit, consuming more and more garbage.
Radio is more stimulating in many ways and with digital systems there is so much to choose from. We recently bought a SONOS sound system and can now access digital radio stations or the music stored on my computer from all over the house. Listening to music means that I can forget about Brexit and Trump for a while and remember better times.
There is a petition around that is calling for the government to sell the BBC on the grounds that it has lost its independence, the right think that it is biased to the left and the left think that it is biased towards the right. Maybe they are both right and that it lies somewhere in the middle. We do need an information system that provides truth, though for many people the truth is what they want to believe, and I believe that daytime TV is the beginning of the end.
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