{"id":8024,"date":"2011-10-05T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T04:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=8024"},"modified":"2011-10-05T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T04:43:09","slug":"reality-shows-i-agree-they-are-for-boobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/reality-shows-i-agree-they-are-for-boobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality shows &#8211; I agree they are for Boobs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/badnickblog.com\/2011\/10\/just-what-we-need\/\" target=\"_blank\">Just What We Need<\/a><\/h2>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/view\/feed\/http%3A%2F%2Fbadnickblog.com%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Nick<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Nick Russell<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Addressing the National Association of Broadcasters convention on May 9, 1961, Newton Norman Minow, then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, referred to much of commercial <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>television<\/strong> as a \u201cvast wasteland.\u201d\u00a0 Minow believed that broadcasters were not doing enough to serve the public interest, and was never quiet in his criticism of the industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, his message was not well received by its intended audience, and the resentment on the part of the industry was no secret. Some claim that the\u00a0<em>S.S. Minnow<\/em>, the ship wrecked in the old\u00a0<em>Gilligian\u2019s Island<\/em>sitcom, was a sarcastic reply to Minow\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, those words were never truer than today. Let me state <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>right<\/strong> up front that I enjoy <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>television<\/strong>. And not just the National Geographic channel or PBS. While I do watch a <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>lot<\/strong> documentaries and History channel programming, there are also a few excellent dramas, and a handful of sitcoms that I look forward to every week. And being a <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>news<\/strong> hound, I spend a <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>lot<\/strong> of time watching the different <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>news<\/strong> programming to get the different sides of an issue.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is also an overwhelming amount of what I consider to be absolute <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>garbage<\/strong>. Really, how many \u201creality\u201d shows do we truly need? I kind of wish those dancing stars would two step <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>right<\/strong> off the stage and land on a survivor wannabe and put a <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>lot<\/strong> of us out of our misery.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bad enough that 75% of what is on the boob tube is beyond stupid, but they can\u2019t even come up with an original thought. They are all too busy copying whatever the next guy is doing. Isn\u2019t <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>one<\/strong> \u201c<em>Housewives of<\/em>\u2026\u201d <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>show<\/strong> enough?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently not, because besides brand new dramas about Playboy bunnies and Pan Am stewardesses, the latest junk food for the brain to be announced is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/badnickblog.com\/The%20Trailer%20Park%20Housewives%20of%20Las%20Vegas\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Trailer Park Housewives of Las Vegas<\/strong><\/a>, which is described as a reality series that will feature six housewives living in a <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Las Vegas<\/strong> trailer park.<\/p>\n<p>Just what we need, <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>one<\/strong> more celebration of white <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>trash<\/strong>. Hand me the remote control honey, the new season of<em>The Biggest Loser\u00a0<\/em>just started. Now,\u00a0<em>that\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0entertainment!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just What We Need from Bad Nick by Nick Russell <\/p>\n<p>Addressing the National Association of Broadcasters convention on May 9, 1961, Newton Norman Minow, then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, referred to much of commercial television as a \u201cvast wasteland.\u201d Minow believed that broadcasters were not doing enough to serve the public interest, and was never quiet in his criticism of the industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, his message was not well received by its intended audience, and the resentment on the part of the industry was no secret. Some claim that the S.S. Minnow, the ship wrecked in the old Gilligian\u2019s Islandsitcom, was a sarcastic reply to Minow\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, those words were never truer than today. Let me state right up front that I <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/reality-shows-i-agree-they-are-for-boobs\/\">&#8220;And Now the Rest of the Story &#8211; &#8220;Reality shows &#8211; I agree they are for Boobs&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reality shows - I agree they are for Boobs... - And That was How it Went<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/reality-shows-i-agree-they-are-for-boobs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reality shows - I agree they are for Boobs... - And That was How it Went\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just What We Need from Bad Nick by Nick Russell Addressing the National Association of Broadcasters convention on May 9, 1961, Newton Norman Minow, then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, referred to much of commercial television as a \u201cvast wasteland.\u201d Minow believed that broadcasters were not doing enough to serve the public interest, and was never quiet in his criticism of the industry. &nbsp; Understandably, his message was not well received by its intended audience, and the resentment on the part of the industry was no secret. 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