ah, the new tv season has arrived. this is a good things, since the a's run has pretty much come to an end, so i need something else to keep my mind numb at night. alias is back (yippee!) as is veronica mars. the new geena davis drama actually looks promising, too. plus, it's time for a woman to rock the white house.
what i'm trying to stay away from this year, though, are reality shows. those abysmal excuses for creative programming that encourage people to eat bugs, prostitute themselves (not quite literally) on the streets, or sell out their friends and colleagues for 12 and a half minutes of fame. this might be hard, as i love america's next top model, which does actually award a covergirl contract and cover of a magazine as opposed to the opportunity to be donald trump's 8th right hand bitch for 3 months. but two versions of the apprentice? a family edition of the amazing race? the same contestants (who previously lost) on survivor? white trash moms being swapped for even whiter trashier moms? didn't reality programming used to mean *gasp* the news? news programming was supposed to be honest, factual information that displayed current events in their most "accurate" light, but now, the news doesn't even have to do that. they can lie in order to rake in advertising dollars (research the BGH trials where Fox tried to pull a news story because a local affiliate exposed Monsanto). or tell a greatly-distorted non-truth and pull it off as "opinion." and since the news organizations are all controlled by 2 or 3 people in total, really we're just being fed a bunch of gobbly-gook fried and dipped in ketchup. but now our reality is some sick, twisted form of mental smush meant to disgust, appall, or confuse us. what happened to quality television, tv that combined both entertainment and smarts? and is mythbusters, a discovery channel gem filmed right here in the bay area, one of our only choice outlets for rewarding brain deflation? i can hear it now: pppppppppppppthsthhhhhhspllllt.
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