Alright people, let me ask you this. Why do you actually watch television? Is it just something to do? Do you find it educational? Do you watch it for the news? Or do you see through the bullshit that it has become?

Honestly, it's sad... a person I know goes around talking like "Yay, only 14.3 more days until the new season of <whatever> premiers!" People always seem make vague references to other television shows, especially the 'reality tv'. I think television has become a government controlled industry designed to turn the populace into a bunch of idiots, more so than they already are...

Your opinions??

I only use it to watch a few shows. Most of the time i watch the history channel (educational) and fox sports west (so i can watch good soccer teams) If i'm not watching those i'm probably watching a movie or some show like friends or just shoot me.

I am one of the few people that watches PBS (the Newshour with Jim Leher is the least biased news on TV). I like "Law and Order" and some of the older shows like "MASH." I'll watch the History channel sometimes, and "Junkyard Wars" on TLC is kind of a guilty pleasure. I don't know, for all the crap out there, there is some decent broadcasting on.
The one thing I don't understand is the draw to reality tv. If I want the experience of living in a hostile enviroment far from civilization, I'd much rather do the traveling myself than watch those yahoos on "Survivor." One time I caught maybe two minutes of that "temptation island" or whatever the hell it is. I actually felt my IQ drop a couple ticks.

It passes the time. I suppose there was a time where I lived off of it.. kind of. I'm not like that anymore. I still watch it though. Just not all the time. We don't even have cable anywhere other than me mum's room, and it doesn't really bother me. Anywho, back to my point: It passes the time, but I don't live off of it.(and noone shuold)
oh, and movies are way better than tv shows.
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~*~phoebe~*~

i watch tv just to pass the time on occasion. When I'm too tired to do anything, i'll just turn the tv on and just watch.. something that isn't totally pointless.

I agree that those reality tv shows are just bullshit and a half. I've never watched any of them, i refuse to watch them.

TV is just something that people just CAN'T seem to live without, and it's really sad. It doesnt teach you much, and whatever it does teach you, you could just as easily read in a book or on the net. It promotes laziness and turns your mind into a droning robotic piece of crap. It makes us all the think the same way, and conditions everyone to be the "typical all american gal-guy" Commercials are the devil, i won't even get into that.

If i dont make sense, or just sound stupid, someone just kick me in the face, and then maybe throw me into a dirty gutter or something.

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I watch a lot of Discovery channel and Animal Planet. I really like Just Shoot Me too. Occasionally I watch some other stuff too, but the above are the primary basics.

I hardly ever watch TV. When I was a kid I watched Pete and Pete, Ren and Stimpy, and Salute Your Shorts. Those were some good times. But now I watch the Simpsons maybe once a week if that. My family is addicted to the TV though. I on the other hand can't seem to get away from this computer.

Moved from General Discussion to Movies / TV

Lilith

How ironic this is, to see a post concerning TV when I just gave up television for a month, just as a test.
~Ophelia

I don't watch much tv, but once in a while, I'll catch Off Centre or South Park.

I only really watch the news now.... Most of the shows on TV don't interest me much at all.

I watch tv rarely. Sometimes it doesn't get turned on for a week or two.

When I do watch it's mostly Discovery, TLC or occasionally Animal Planet. So mostly documentaries about stuff... and yes, they are actually educational.

Sometimes I'll watch other stuff like Trading Spaces and Junkyard Wars by way of entertainment... and I occasionally watch Maternity Ward on TLC with the thought 'rather her than me' playing in the back of my mind.

Since we moved and don't have Sci-Fi channel anymore I watch even less tv. I'd watch Farscape religiously though. It's just a great show. Now I'll occasionally watch Monk, 'cause it's funny... and sometimes Law and Order or the occasional movie.

Very little news, as I just get aggravated and annoyed by too many things and the idiocy and inhumanity of too many people.

Why do I watch? I watch when I'm bored and lethargic. When I'm too bored or lethargic to work on the computer, play on the computer or read... then I watch tv. And sometimes it's because I'm eating, though I'll have dinner in front of the computer more often than not.

Lilith

I don't watch much tv at all anymore, and when I do, it's usually one of only a few things. Usually, it's SpongeBob Squarepants, Invader Zim, The Cosby Show reruns (I love it, don't know why), or a movie. Occasionally reruns of Taxi, Everybody Loves Raymond, or The X-Files.