Cape Karen
I'm getting more and more frustrated watching the ongoing reports of devastation in the southern states. It is just sickening! Why would anyone (Oprah) insist on going into the coliseum to view the dead bodies and smell the gross filth left behind?
What redeeming value was there in doing that, Oprah? To burn into our minds freakish images we can have additional nightmares about? Give me a break! Makes for 'good televison,' I guess? And, isn't that a tragic statement about our culture?!
Speaking of television, I am also really sick of all the ads from drug companies for their prescription drugs that assault our minds, and the minds of our children, every ten minutes.
Last night, during dinner, I saw six ads in a row while trying to watch the nightly news; from itchy hemorrhoid remedies, with people squirming in their seats, to a product for curing a putrid toenail fungus featuring, "Digger the Hermatophyte." I quickly lost my appetite.
And, I really don't want to know about the drug's side effects, like diaherra and constipation either. (I can hear the song in my head and see those idiots butt-dancing now.) And all those ads about too long-lasting, 4-hour erections (such a problem!?) and the dangers of acid reflux, etc., just make me cringe.
In my day - a few decades past, alcohol and cigarettes were advertised constantly on televison and in magazines- and look where that got us. Children today, those who do watch television without parental restrictions, are getting the continual message: "Pop our pill and all will be well." (Scary to think what their futures hold.)
Thank goodness for my remote and its "mute" button. Thank goodness for the PBS station. And, most of all, thank goodness for my new DVD player from my son and daughter-in-law!
I'm going blind from playing 'catch-up' watching all the movies I missed in the theaters.
But ~ there are no commercials!
Posted by Karen at September 7, 2005 11:45 AM