The Television

Many of these posts will come from a point of view of one who remembers how things were decades ago. At one time television offered a few channels with very basic fare. News programs that offered just the news,not overtly biased and slanted input,variety shows,dramas, comedies,as well as cartoons and children's shows comprised television programming. Let's not forget that the television offered no shows after 1am. The stations invariably ended the day with a stirring rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.
In this 21th century we have hundreds of channels running 24 hours a day. Filthy talking,gross sexual content, and the portrayal of every kind of decadent and immoral lifestyle is no longer confined to the "cable" stations but is the norm on the three major networks as well. News shows are blatantly biased and slanted,usually to the liberal side. The so-called conservative stations are doing the same by injecting their biases as demonstrated by their support of one of the worst Presidents' ever(my opinion), George W.Bush. Can't they all just read the news and let us form our own opinions?
Philosopher William Gayley Simpson had this to say about the television and it gets to the heart of what is wrong with television: "People who know what it is to have a life of their own,as do all real persons,all real individuals,all really healthy people,have far too much that they want to be up and doing,to waste time watching other people do something."