tsb247 said:
Oh TLC... You have fallen from grace in such a way so as to be almost completely unsalvageable.
Anyone remember when TLC had Junkyard Wars? Those were the days...
It's too bad the pander to the lowest elements of society now.
Oh man, Junkyard Wars. Those certainly were the days (I'll have to go look up an episode online now).
Personally, I blame it on the growing trend of anti-intellectualism in the US. More and more people don't want to be well educated, they don't want to learn about and think about complex issues, or things with a bit of nuance to them. They want clear, black and white, simple explanations to everything. They want the spectacle, and the side-show antics, of reality television (I *will* admit to watching the hell out of Fear Factor back in the day though ^^; ) instead of shows that actually impart new information, or perhaps change the way you look at things.
Where are those people in that video from anyway? If they're from the South, I apologize on behalf of those of us who aren't a horrible stereotype. People *do* have shirts with sleeves down here.
But yeah, television, especially the good, old channels aren't as good as they used to be.
Cartoon Network has live-action reality shows. The Discovery Channel is about building bikes and various forms of fishing (Although, as stated earlier in the thread, Mythbusters and Through the Wormhole are good). The Learning Channel has a bunch of terrible, MTV-quality reality shows. The History Channel is obsessed with aliens, truck-driving and Mayan Doomsday theories (I do miss when they were the WWII channel. At least it was history). G4 isn't even about videogames and technology any more, as they can't seem to fit shows like that in between re-runs of Cops and Cheaters.
Truly, people who didn't get to grow up in the 90's have missed out on the golden age of modern Television. At least they're all still alive on the internet
