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"Why cannot people who don't enjoy this sort of program just switch off."
I dunno ... if your domestic television networks were airing child pornography, is that what you'd say?
Some of us think that the quality of the programming being sent out over the public airwaves matters, to society and thus to us.
I think this kind of programming is garbage. I think it is detrimental to society. I think it distracts people from genuine problems in society and interferes wtih their ability to care genuinely about people who suffer from those problems.
Baby Jessica is one example. In the two days she was stuck in that well, with the full resources of her community and her society devoted to getting her out, and people all over her country and the world glued to their teevee sets and "caring" about her, thousands of children just like her died of malnutrition and preventable diseases and had their lives destroyed by civil wars and tyranny. Did any of the people "caring" about and weeping over Baby Jessica give one of those children one thought?
How about all the "make-a-wish" type charities, that send sick kids in wealthy countries, kids getting all the medical care money can buy, to Disneyland? When people donate to those charities, do they stop to think what their money could buy for a kid at risk of dying from lack of food or lack of a simple vaccination? Life, that's what it could buy. Instead of more money in the pockets of big corporations like Disney.
If I don't like that, I shouldn't donate to it? Well I sure don't, despite the multiple spam solicitations I've been getting from that particular "charity" in the US lately. But how genuinely could I claim to care about hungry, sick kids in the world if I didn't speak out against manipulative profiteering like "make-a-wish"?
Get out your hankies, folks, we have a sad but heartwarming tale to tell you.
Don't you worry that we're all making a handsome profit from the sales our tale generates for our sponsors, both from you when you buy the dish soap from our sponsor and from all the desperate people who think that buying our own product is going to find them the happiness they deserve.
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"Janet I agree with you.entirely. people seemed to expect too much in this type of programme. they watch Big Brother and the Celebrity in the Jungle and make no comment on that"
Who exactly are these people?
We are all entitled to our opinions are we not?
How about I say 'if you don't like this thread stay out of it'? Not nice eh? But no different from the old cliche "if you don't like it don't watch it".
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Island I would think that the only difference about my statement saying if you don't like a certain program don't watch it and your thought that if you don't like this thread stay out of it, is that if a program is switched off then there is no connection between the transmission and the reception of the viewer.
Unlike these boards all can receive the written word so it cannot be compared to a dormant television . So I would say that it is different. -jl
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Wha' ??
Don't turn on your television, don't click on the thread.
Seems pretty simple to me.
Not that I recommend either as a solution to a perceived problem.
Feel free to express your opnion about what's said in the thread, and I'll feel free to express my opinion about the subject of the thread.
If it's all the same to you.
That is: I won't recommend that you click on by as a response to your displeasure with what's said in the thread, and I'd be grateful if you would not recommend that people turn off their television if they are not pleased with what it is showing on it *over the public airwaves*.
There's an actual distinction, you see.
This is a conversation among people who pay for the use of this website.
Television programming is broadcast using a medium owned by the public: the radio-television spectrum. If anything is a fit subject for comment by anyone, I'd say that is.
Of course I anticipate the standard advice that I keep my nose out of domestic affairs.
In pre-emptive response to which I refer gentle reader to my comments about this type of television programming in general, and how it affects humanity at large.
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Janet, I wasn't actually addressing you. I was quoting another poster.
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There are some programmes I just will not watch because I know I won't enjoy them.
There are some programmes which I begin and then realise they are not my 'cup of tea', so I switch them off.
However......
If a programme comes on and, after a while, I find the content deeply unacceptable then I will make a complaint to the powers that be either by email or a phone call. If enough people make the same complaint, one would hope they would take it on board and, at least, I have made my feelings known - I have tried.
To be fair, if there is something which I thoroughly enjoy, then I am equally quick to send a message of praise and thanks in the hope that we get more of the same quality.
Just switching the tv off only makes us feel better at the time, it does not achieve anything in the long term.
Cx
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I do enjoy a bit of trash telly often but this programme just didn't appeal - if I watched if I'm sure I would have blubbed and been hooked but I'm glad I've avoided it
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Sorry for you that read my post on GRFB page as I may be reapeating myself...
For the first 3 episodes I loved it, yes I did think it was a tad cheesey, but I got a bit bored as it was the same concept week in week out....
There was no timescales given for the searches and foot work involved..
There was no real follow up 3 mths after the reunion , like the knock on effect these sort of reunions can cause through out a family, siblings reactions of the reunited but not directly involved.
The presenters was constantly re capping on the story, and voice overs, Nicky Cambell did give some supporting advice, but on one part the camera walked to someones front door with Davina and then shot was the camera behind the person opening the door...a tad picky I know but then it just looked far too scripted.
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