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Who’s Your Daddy?
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Plans to air a television game show in which an adopted woman picks out her father from a panel of impostors have thousands of people deluging Fox TV with letters and e-mails to get the show shelved.
The “Who’s Your Daddy?” show, in which a young woman given up for adoption as a child gets a $100,000 prize for picking out her biological father from a line-up, is the latest in America’s obsession with reality TV programming.
News of the show sparked both a grass-roots campaign among adoptive parents and protests from national adoption organizations who called the idea offensive, voyeuristic and exploitative. Six episodes have been filmed but so far only one has been scheduled for broadcast, on Jan. 3.
So that’s why I don’t bother with TV any more…
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So thats why I dont bother with TV any more
Right, it must be because there’s nothing else on and you lack the technology to control what you watch and when.
On the contrary, I do have the technology to control what I watch – that’s why I hardly watch any TV, since the technology in question is usually called “off-switch”
There’s decent content to be had. (Case in point: The Daily Show, which we know you like to watch. Also: The Simpsons, The West Wing, CSI, etc.) Pointing to one or two dumb programs and saying “that’s why I don’t watch TV is like pointing to FoxNews.com and saying “that’s why I don’t get my news on the web anymore”.
I watch the Daily Show on the web, I doubt I would bother to watch it if it were on TV. Getting it on the web makes it convenient enough to watch the good bits (the early monologue, lewis black, this week in god, your moment of zen) that the bad bits (the interviews, most ed helms stuff, and probably the advertising breaks) don’t turn me away. I wouldn’t call the other shows you mention decent content, but that’s a matter of taste. I don’t watch any of it. As is in fact most of this is probably about taste, since some people would call Who’s Your Daddy “decent content” as well.
I watch the Daily Show on the web, I doubt I would bother to watch it if it were on TV. Getting it on the web makes it convenient enough to watch the good bits
Like I suggested in my original comment, it’s all about using available technology to control what you watch and when. You could do it with a cable box and a TiVo, or you can download it off the web, but the bottom line is YOU DO WATCH TV, no matter what you pretend.
A friend I visit shows me a DVD on his computer every now and then. Usually it’s a movie that will at some point in time be broadcast on TV. Does that mean I’m watching TV?
Pffff.
The Daily Show is made-for-TV content, produced by a TV channel for broadcast on TV.
Look, you pointed to some stupid content and said “that’s why I don’t watch TV”, but there *is* TV content you do watch, you just sneak it into your house in a different way.
So it all comes down to the semantics of what constitutes watching TV. Is it only TV if it’s live? Is it TV if it’s off a TiVo? Or if you buy a whole season on DVD? *shrug* I was making the point that there’s good TV content too, and that it’s all about picking and choosing.