I was just reading that in the mid 60's an hour long tv show, if you take out the commercials, was 51 minutes long. That's of actual tv show time. As of 2007 an hour long show minus commercials is only 42 minutes long. Nine extra minutes of advertising. Advertising is a networks bread n butter. Ad space on a popular show goes for anywhere from the hundreds of thousands of dollars for 30 seconds to up into the millions for a prime spot in something like the super bowl. Now given those kinds of numbers it seems that either the networks have gotten that much more greedier, or the productions costs (actors, cameramen, stage hands etc) have skyrocketed. I thinks maybe it's a little of both.
I think it's just more 'conditioning' to make people into better little consumers. Dumb tv down to the point you don't even have to think so you become nice and vegetative then bombard you with all that 'buy this, buy that. you can't live without this gadget' advertising. Now mind you i'm all for some mindless entertainment but there is a gar disproportionate percentage of cerebral programming to mindless entertainment shows. Which is sad because these days people get most alll of their information on the tv. If it wasn't on the tv it didn't happen. Right? It's sad but who actually reads anymore? Not many. I just miss the good ole days. When people were "smarter" *LOL*
Where's Howard Beale when you need him?
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