Recent Comments

Yes.
It was purely driven by advertisers looking for a more "sophisticated" market. -their words.
That was exactly and precisely the time I started watching less and less TV. By the mid-1970's I was watching exactly ZERO TV!
I found a real life, and it didn't involve spending endless hours sitting in front of the Idiot Box.

Thanks for checking it out.

well, the "big guy" is getting HIS 10% from all parties

Great idea, but I'd rather see NPR shut down forever.
Fire the scum who've been vomiting lies for 5 decades.
Ditto for FBI, BATF, IRS, EPA, DoEjakashun, DoEnergy, and every agency created since 1913.

"You are stating that reality and truth are racist." Nonsense. That is an absurd assumption.

"Another thought just occurred to me. When, exactly when, did this 'subject' and the whole idea and concept of 'racism' as a shameful and even criminal 'thought'---not action, just thought---become sensitive?" Good question and suspect it goes back to antiquity. However, IMHO, in our country it seems to begin its current manifestation in the roots of the abolitionist movement in the late 18th century although it was a counter point to race based slavery.

Here I am, bending your ear again. But I went back to Wikipedia---and you're right, there are not many reference notes---but I saw that when he went to I think NBC or CBS, after ABC, his programming was pretty much a failure, But when he got to CBS by the late seventies, his programming was more successful. I'm not sure that that is correct, but for now it is a working hypothesis.

At any rate, I realized that this was the time the media in all its many manifestations began to use social cognitive theory, you know the theory that what people see other people doing is what they think is the 'right' thing to do. I asked copilot a few questions, and it finally came up with this:

"The application of reciprocal determinism [social cognitive theory] in advertising and television began to gain traction in the 1970's and became more widespread through the 1980's and onwards. During this period advertisers and media creators increasingly leveraged the concept of observational learning [social cognitive theory] to influence consumer behavior..." Apparently, copilot would not admit they used it to influence moral behavior.

It seemed fairly straight to me, I just glanced through it, wanting to know who hired the Silverman character, and found the programs Silverman had the good-always-wins replaced with. But that's as far as I went. I might replay it.

Which programming, Fred? Maude, or what was the name of that show with Candace Bergen?

The media took moral absolutism out of the picture and inserted moral relativity. So now we have woke. Are you surprised?

I mean, which program, Carl? And I'm not sure you understand the exact nature of 'human nature'.

Can't speak for Fred but all the programing was Morally based, Conscious humans do not need reminding (it's built in-unless deprogrammed) but it's nice to know one is not alone. It's not subjective, it's common knowledge but again, nice to see how each situation plays out.

Remark below about America losing it's innocents during WW2 is true, as we learn now days, we were played like fiddles,
Wars should always be defensive first, offensive once we're sure the enemy is not giving up.
Can't remember where I read or.heard that.

Why not? I'll never forget seeing Obama's vice-resident on TV telling a reporter, "Yes, we can spend our way out of debt."
So let's spend even trillions and trillions more! Spend, spend, spend! Until we're debt free! Whee!

Haven't had the chance but it might be interesting how this plays out on Wikipedia, would image all kinds of "Edits". or, maybe they play it straight?

Found this:

https://books.google.com/books?id=EV0...

(Watching While Black, book by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade. Wonder if she's related to that gal who wrote Project 1619, I think that gal was a Smith Hyphen too.)

Oh, no. That gal was a Jones: Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Guess they had to remove good v evil, where good always wins and substitute Roots. Where white guys are the bad guys.

You have a strange idea of what 'late in life' means. Mid-forties is nowhere near 'late in life'.

Welcome.

Looking at Freddie's Wiki bio, though some of his programs were probably not bad, in general the intellectual level was geared for a more childish audience. Do you see that too?

I wonder who the people were, the behind-the-scenes people, who hired him to replace the other guy, Matt Something-or-other.

Fred Silverman. Thanks, a name. I'll check up on him---do some research. (A lot of so-called 'smart' people do not understand the meaning of 'research' and actually believe 'real' research is some kind of scientific experiment, for which they have no true knowledge of how to do.---Not you, Carl).

After World War II, and the boys came home, mystified and unbelieving---I read somewhere that America lost its innocence in World War II---they needed the American Westerns, where the good guys wore the white hats and always beat the bad guys; for instance The Lone Ranger. It restored a belief that evil can always be overcome. After the sixties changed everything, 'Ain't I Right', by the seventies the westerns: good vs. bad, and anything with a tree in it, as Pat Buttram said, was taken off the air and moral relativity became the new 'right', shoving moral absolutism right down the toilet. But these rural shows were giving in to the liberal progressive hogwash by that time anyway. Arnold Ziffel on Green Acres in the last season of that rural show, was shown in a sketch being discriminated against in a school classroom because he was unfortunately, a pig. I enjoyed all the seasons of Green Acres until the last one.

As Cecil Sharpe, English folklorist said about the Appalachian people: they came face-to-face with reality on a daily basis. The folks in the rural shows were that kind of people, they knew reality. Arnold might have been a pig; but they knew he was a pig and it was funny to see a man with his boy, a pig. They knew it wasn't real.

I'll check up on Freddie boy.

Think Dana White knows? doesn't care? or feels he's far enough away from Their activities.

Also, do not see that they are still active terrorist, not that any inactivity absolves them of anything.

Thanks Brother, I'll check it out

Working on ITMTyme: "After Glow" edition. seems an after glow can be a painful disinfectant as well as a warm everlasting special memory.

Information warfare. Alex Jones is like a reusable cruise missile weapon .He targets emotional triggers and blows them up real good as the fishing musician Jon Candy used to say. BTW check this short video from another great post ignored . Posted by Dobrien 0 minutes ago on Ever wonder why so many Celebrities and athletes are flaming liberals

Controlled by Rahm Emanuel’s brother Ari. After merging with William Morris agency this power house represents the majority of Stars in sports in movies in Tell a vision . Funny both we offspring to Jewish terrorists in Palistine during the 20’s and 30’s . If you don’t act woke you don’t work. P Diddy comprising party’s were one way of control. No job is another. Casting couch control.

I think, for the first time in my life, I might even watch it if that happens.

. . . but I wouldn't hold my breath.

looking for a meme for Friday about this.

https://collider.com/television-rural...

The fedgov has about $5 trillion revenue and was about 33% over that budget. That is the example they followed.

Are you sure you're not in some kind of science fiction story?

This was hands down one of the best Bee stories in the days immediately following the beatdown. I've got one hell of an imagination, and I can't imagine how anyone could be given a billion dollars and still not stay w/in the budget.