Friday, March 28, 2008

Poison TV

It is shocking! Television is now become poison! (I mean TV station in my country). That is true. According to my experience during my last one month staying at home for preparing my delivery time, I get nothing but poison from this living little box. Started from early morning, the news mostly is the yesterday ones, so the news is just repetition from yesterday. And then followed with infotainment or gossiping time, I can see a horrible world. We call them here “celebs” although we never sure whether this definition is right or not, this magic box mostly presents all the bad side of their life. Look, for example we can see them fighting each other, after married for some times, they get divorced with the classical reason “no more fit one to another” then some of them make a peace divorce without arguing of fighting but mostly they break up with the very dramatic or if I can say “too much over” sad ending. They often then tell the bad side of his/her ex husband/wife. Even they talk about the marital heritance. We can also see celebs get caught because of drugs. Not enough, recently we are ‘entertained’ by many news about some celebrities nude photos or actions in the web, some of them admitted that it is them but the rest didn’t admit it even though the public knows how they acts daily never show good and clean attitude. The celebrities mostly just want their star above all the time so they made some sensational ideas.
Not enough, we can stay tune to see soap opera oh no this name is just too good for it, let’s call it cinema electronics which presents tears, anger, hatred with so many angles taken, from below, above, left-right side to see the dramatically situation. The story is not important, the production house even use dubbing for this kind of living action (it’s not cartoon). Dumb!
The TV shows for kids are not many. Even worse, there is one private TV that showed kids singing competition but mostly kids sing ‘adult’ songs and the TV presented boy band with adult songs too. The rating is now becoming ‘king’ so many TV station don’t take responsibility of the content of their menu. As long as the rate shows high, they keep the show go on. They don’t have empathy any more. Just so confusing how TV now becomes poison for the audience. We only find, fight, hatred, fake, what else….something unnatural and kind of boring. So, if I can choose I better have an MP3 or ipod and newspaper in my hand everyday than watching TV. There is no benefit from TV now. Except Oprah Winfrey Show although it’s imported from abroad and one more, Kick Andy –one of few high quality product of Indonesia private TV station ever.

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