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MTV is the opiate of the masses. There are a lot of 20 somethings who are lulled into the sheer idiocy, but even more teenagers who are. And if you turn on MTV2, those videos are pure garbage.
There are people who are totally brainwashed by it though, who think that life should all be about promiscuouty, drugs, and money. No appreciation of art or wisdom or any intangibles. It is really disgusting. If and when I have kids, I'm probably going to block out MTV as well as probably Nickelodeon (just because Nickelodeon has becomed so dumbed down.)
Anyone remember when television was intelligent? When you could turn on TLC or the Discovery channel and not see bullshit? Now all the educational programming is no longer on basic cable- now you gotta go to Discovery Science, which is on expanded cable or whatever.
Oh, and Comedy Central has gone waaaay downhill. They have so much good original programming that they cancelled, and now they show MAD TV reruns? And the Daily Show and Colbert Report 5 times a day? And Blue Collar TV? That should be on CMT. And 4 episodes of scrubs a day?
Don't get me wrong- Scrubs is funny, and so is the Daily Show and the Colbert report. But they should only be on once a day. Comedy Central should be split into like 5 different channels- News, Stand-up, movies, originals, and sketch comedy.
Cartoon Networks been going downhill too. Adult Swim has been boring as of late and the daytime programming is abysmal.
Cartoon network is split into 2 channels: Boomerang and Cartoon Network- but it should really be like:
Cartoon Network for 12 year olds, Adult swim, anime dorks, classic cartoons, and crappy cartoons that were made in the 60's that currently take way too much time away from classic cartoons on Boomerang.
Although it is probably a good thing that TV programming is such shit. Otherwise I'd be glued.
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