All TV is bad?

[David Bodman]

I also find that on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, etc. That it's
very madding when the return from a commercial that the "review" the last
few bland comments over and over...Bleaach! Com'on, guys, I ain't THAT
brain-dead! 

Unfortunately, they seem to have hooked my wife, she spends HOURS watching
that stuff...

David

BTW...When the announcement for the Southern NH LUG meeting comes out, could
you please add the town the meeting is in? I'm a stranger to these parts!
Thanks!


> >
> >    The last time we had a TV set up was 1987.  I gave up on the
> >"history channel" type programming just after the news and just before
> >WKRP reruns.
> >
> >    The educational documentaries have two problems: information rate
> >and information depth....
> >
> >
> >
> Ditto. I get frustrated with most documentaries I've seen lately,
> including a recent one at the IMAX about a trip through Africa. Very
> dumbed down, very little depth in the material, and highly yawn
> inducing. Way too much time was spent on the visuals, not nearly enough
> on content. The visual stuff does not impress me. They normally don't
> even come close to what my own mind and imagination is capable of.
> 
> Information rates always seem at the level of a 300-baud modem in the
> age of high-speed Internet. Slooooow.
> 
> TV was largely designed for the masses, and the lowest common
> denominator at that.
> 
> -Fred