Since starting a few new jobs, I haven't had much time for TV. Friday night I took an opportunity to veg-out in front of a few mindless shows, and the censorship caught my attention. I was watching a movie that had been edited to be shown on television, and I noticed that they had dubbed over all the swear words. Obviously, this is not a new revelation, but what set it apart on Friday night, was the fact that none of the violence had been edited out.
Interesting that we deem cursing as behavior too inappropriate to show on television, but fighting, blood, and killing are ok.
The other thing that was making me antsy was that in EVERY commercial break they played an advertisement for the Bad Girls Club with Amber and Amber. I had never heard of the Ambers before (pardon my ignorance, if this is a household name), but it looked AWFUL. There are TOO MANY trashy reality TV series. Ewww.
So perhaps the period of absentia made these things stick out like glaring sore thumbs, but I was not impressed. Does that make me old? Or uptight? Or wizened? Or enlightened?
1 comment:
We have noticed this, too since giving up our antenna. The couple times we have watched something we notice the power of marketing (a Mansanto commercial with green fields and glittering streams - disgusting!!!) and also the temptation to watch more. It is better for us to just have it off entirely!
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