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Anyone Notice All of the Politics/Propaganda in Television Lately?

Strykervet

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    So they kicked Roseanne off for saying something everyone knows she says already. I forget the particulars anyway. But I saw the show come up on Hulu, it comes on the day after it airs I believe. So it's called "The Conners" and I no-shit couldn't sit through the first episode. That rarely happens. But from the get go, it was so full of "opioid crisis" and "suicide" and "gay is okay" and "mixed families" messages (and probably others!) that it made it just unwatchable. I felt like I was watching the new brand of Soviet propaganda, I really did. I've seen old Soviet era material, the "cutting edge" shit, and both were handled about the same. Sick. It's fucked up, "Roseanne" was actually a pretty good show for much of it's run.

    And of course it was a "think like us or die" way of getting it across, not like the "very special episode of _____" from the 80's and it wasn't just one issue either, the entire show was an issue. I see that SNL has gone full political now, and may not be worth saving since it's Lorne's baby and he's the one doing it. I turned off cable to get away from the messages, indoctrination, fake media, etc., and now just get it imported via content instead. "Daddy's Home 2" was full of this shit, including firearms too. Fucking can't get away from it unless you watch older stuff like Monty Python or just go dark.

    Anybody else notice a huge shift over the last few years in the writing of television shows? Massive amounts of politics and current affairs being written in with the direct intention of telling you how you should feel about it? I can't be the only one.
     
    What is this TV you speak of ? Just kidding . I only watch outdoor cannel ahooting shows and from time to time a shoot em up . If I watched all the other shit I'd be bolemic.
     
    You're not the only one.

    It is REALLY bad, and the one thing I will add to it, is it is all very 'dumbed down' too, for the millennials. We can't believe how some stuff is so stupid, and it is slathered around the tv shows.

    They're making 'em dumber nowadays, that's for sure. And any show that IS good, gets cancelled. We had been watching Superior Donuts, and now it's gone. Just as an example.
     
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    Living in USSR 1988 I saw things I thought I would never see in America.

    I sought out the TACC (TASS) building for a picture because at the time every American knew Soviet news was just a propaganda machine.

    The things that I saw back than as parody are now here in the USA.
     
    If you ask a kid today how many people are gay - what's the percentage? - they will give a number 3-4 times the reality.

    It's because that is what they see on TV.

    Opioids crisis?

    Gov is doing nothing about it. It's a money maker and expands govt reach.
     
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    All I watch is Kojak. Just diapers and catheter commercials.
     
    Exactly right PMCLAINE, been saying this since 2000, we are hading for a gnashing out ala 1989-1991 Soviet Style implosion. Remember who is the enemy of the Constitution these days. I am waiting, I view that implosion as a liberation day, a D Day so to speak.

    Living in USSR 1988 I saw things I thought I would never see in America.

    I sought out the TACC (TASS) building for a picture because at the time every American knew Soviet news was just a propaganda machine.

    The things that I saw back than as parody are now here in the USA.
     
    It’s because aliens have infiltrated us and they are slowly taking over. Getting us to consume and breed. Addicted to drugs and iphones. I just wonder what they really want with us. Curious what deal the human collaborators cut with them.

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    Really bad on the tv side. Can’t speak for the baby boomers or millennials but this gen X’r is tuning out?
     
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    I do know that YouTube hasn’t played a single anti dem video prior to me watching anything. I’m hoping to talk to a reporter or exit poll taker, so I can tell them I specifically voted republican because the democrats made me wait 10 seconds before I could watch any videos.
     
    I agree, it's all like nails on a chalkboard. If it isn't straight up left wing propaganda, it's morally bankrupt characters with no redeeming values that make it impossible for me to care about.

    I've given up on traditional TV from the states. I mostly watch youtube channels, like guys in a machine shop explaining how to do things, nature videos, shooting sports related content, how things are made etc. Or I just listen to a dramatized audio version of the Bible while reloading at my bench.
     
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    About all I watch is Megyn Kelly in the mornings.
    She's not perfect, but at least she can still speak her mind, and she's pretty right/radical for NBC.

    I haven't had a chance to watch this week's shows, but they're on DVR. I'll start watching later today.
     
    TV is so sure of their absolute power to control the thoughts of a nation that they have neutered themselves. The American people can only be fed so much horseshit before they start to get a bad taste in their mouth. Some will begin to acquire a taste for horseshit, but most will go eat elsewhere. JMHO. Never interrupt the enemy when they are making a mistake.
     
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    So what's it going to take, to get a number of bazillionaires (there's gotta be quite a few of them) who're both Republican AND Freedom-Loving, to start up a tv channel or two (there's already a bazillion channels of drivel) that focus on Real values, Real comedy, and Real morals?

    A place where all the 'cancelled' shows can go, and other shows that we WANT to watch/see/learn can be. You know, the RIGHT/CORRECT/PROPER side of reality and humanity. No catering at all to the idiotic, 'multi-colored-flag', blithering allah-peanutbutter-cookies, mindless crap that is purported pretty much everywhere else.

    An oasis in a sea of depravity, so-to-speak? I'm just sayin'....
     
    Yup...haven't watched TV in over a decade. Yer being brainwashed/controlled/manipulated/groomed with every show and every commercial.

    I have worked in TV and know a multitude of producers and technicians.

    Watch TV and yer being groomed by people you do not want to be groomed by. The Evening News has not been about "News" for decades - it's about selling commercials and grooming yer opinions to buy shit they want you to buy.

    Nothing more. Here's the scary thing - America and American have been deliberately set against each other by this Propaganda to keep us from uniting against the Oligarchy and The Government. When we should be coordinating and cooperating with each other we are groomed to hate everything and oppose everything that doesn't suit US. We are divided and we will fall because of it.

    VooDoo
     
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    The hard truth is that the target audience of the propagandist left is financially incapable of supporting the advertisers at a sustainable level.
    It may take a little while longer, but sooner or later they'll begin to realize that the SJW's and Antifa's aren't buying their shit.
     
    So they kicked Roseanne off for saying something everyone knows she says already. I forget the particulars anyway. But I saw the show come up on Hulu, it comes on the day after it airs I believe. So it's called "The Conners" and I no-shit couldn't sit through the first episode. That rarely happens. But from the get go, it was so full of "opioid crisis" and "suicide" and "gay is okay" and "mixed families" messages (and probably others!) that it made it just unwatchable. I felt like I was watching the new brand of Soviet propaganda, I really did. I've seen old Soviet era material, the "cutting edge" shit, and both were handled about the same. Sick. It's fucked up, "Roseanne" was actually a pretty good show for much of it's run.

    And of course it was a "think like us or die" way of getting it across, not like the "very special episode of _____" from the 80's and it wasn't just one issue either, the entire show was an issue. I see that SNL has gone full political now, and may not be worth saving since it's Lorne's baby and he's the one doing it. I turned off cable to get away from the messages, indoctrination, fake media, etc., and now just get it imported via content instead. "Daddy's Home 2" was full of this shit, including firearms too. Fucking can't get away from it unless you watch older stuff like Monty Python or just go dark.

    Anybody else notice a huge shift over the last few years in the writing of television shows? Massive amounts of politics and current affairs being written in with the direct intention of telling you how you should feel about it? I can't be the only one.

    @Strykervet Being that you are a pretty astute poster, I am surprised that you are just realizing this. It has been happening for much longer than a few years. Began innocuously enough through shows like Seinfeld, Friends, etc. All funny comedies that I watched but full of plots that conveyed the new way of life. It was done through comedy so no-one paid too much attention. Another incredibly successful outlet was Nickelodeon. Since I have 5 kids, I saw the evolution of children's TV on Nickelodeon. It is incredible what is being broadcast on that channel as appropriate for children.

    It has been getting more and more overt where now anyone questioning the topics portrayed by TV is called a racist, homophobe, etc.

    It is a full on attack at every level....TURN IT OFF
     
    I retired from the heavy construction/mining contracting industry about 4 years ago. I was essentially the HMFWAIC on any site I was assigned. However, one month it was slow and I happened to be holed up in the district home office. One weekday I was at work complaining about this or that and one of my very wise bosses ask me what I did as I got ready for work. Told him I watch cable news and find out what's happening in the world. He just smiled and recommended that I try and not do that. I'll never forget it "Don't start your day that way, watch music TV or turn on the stereo. If you want to listen to the news do it later after you've done something useful, talked with real people and find out what's happening in this world".

    One of the best pieces of advice I have ever been given.

    Thank you,
    MrSmith
     
    This has been going on for a long time but has picked up momentum since Trump was elected. Almost every program on mainstream TV pushes homosexuality as normal, blows up the % of gays in society, extolles liberal ideology as the best thing ever and generally insults conservatives.
     
    There is only one Billionaire in my whole life that has not looked upon their fellow citizens as tax chattel at best and a nuciance even to be done away with as the norm. And that one Billionaire is DJT, the rest hold us and our country in contempt. They will be must be watched carefully as they want to do away with the one and only America loving Billionaire we have.

    So what's it going to take, to get a number of bazillionaires (there's gotta be quite a few of them) who're both Republican AND Freedom-Loving, to start up a tv channel or two (there's already a bazillion channels of drivel) that focus on Real values, Real comedy, and Real morals?

    A place where all the 'cancelled' shows can go, and other shows that we WANT to watch/see/learn can be. You know, the RIGHT/CORRECT/PROPER side of reality and humanity. No catering at all to the idiotic, 'multi-colored-flag', blithering allah-peanutbutter-cookies, mindless crap that is purported pretty much everywhere else.

    An oasis in a sea of depravity, so-to-speak? I'm just sayin'....
     
    There is only one Billionaire in my whole life that has not looked upon their fellow citizens as tax chattel at best and a nuciance even to be done away with as the norm. And that one Billionaire is DJT, the rest hold us and our country in contempt. They will be must be watched carefully as they want to do away with the one and only America loving Billionaire we have.

    John Hancock was the Bill Gates of his day.

    Financed a nice little revolution he did.
     
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    The day body odor rainbowed the White House, it's been a full on shitshow attack on anything wasp straight. 1984 Orwell full tilt.
    Prior to that under dickwillie and following, it was like softporn, snuck in here, snuck in there....
    But, it's been here all along in the media pushing the "viewpoint" certain big business wanted the serfs to buy into.
    There is nothing new in the world, it's just now a body wave attack.
     
    About all I watch is Megyn Kelly in the mornings.
    She's not perfect, but at least she can still speak her mind, and she's pretty right/radical for NBC.
    I haven't had a chance to watch this week's shows, but they're on DVR. I'll start watching later today.

    We'll they got rid of her good and proper.
    Can't have somebody in MSM that is not totally a die hard Communist.
    The whole network went after her this time, pretty much actively sabotaging their own talent to get some pay back and get rid of her.
     
    MK is a douche.

    I'm beginning to believe there is Karma as she got hers.

    That first Repub POTUS debate........she thought she would skewer Trump.

    Too funny, she was the first "win".

    Used to like her at one point, now can't wait to see her at the trailer park, sadly it will be the $60 mil trailer she is in.
     
    If you ask a kid today how many people are gay - what's the percentage? - they will give a number 3-4 times the reality.

    It's because that is what they see on TV.

    Yep, how about 4 inter-racial couples on The Walking Dead? And the 1 non-inter-racial couple the man s a murderer. And let us not forget all the gay couples, including an entire lesbian community. LOL
     
    The day body odor rainbowed the White House, it's been a full on shitshow attack on anything wasp straight. 1984 Orwell full tilt.
    Prior to that under dickwillie and following, it was like softporn, snuck in here, snuck in there....
    But, it's been here all along in the media pushing the "viewpoint" certain big business wanted the serfs to buy into.
    There is nothing new in the world, it's just now a body wave attack.
    As a side note, I commend thee. body odor (all lower case) is even better than 'the obombination', and henceforth I too shall use that one. Thanks.
     
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    No matter what you are selling in your commercial these days you better include two dudes on a couch snuggling with tea mugs.

    Strange the ladies don't get as much exposure unless it is two of them at a wedding ceremony.

    So gay guys snuggle with tea and gay women marry.

    That's what I'm learning.
     
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    The Marxist media controls the schools, and the universities
    They control your children
    Thus They control the future
    Soon they will control U
     
    Home school, cease federal funding of universities and force school choice.

    Universities have become a black hole for federal dollars and the curriculum for a degree a travesty of money spent on bullshit that has nothing to do with area of study. I with you Jerry, let’m Sink or swim?
     
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    No matter what you are selling in your commercial these days you better include two dudes on a couch snuggling with tea mugs.

    Strange the ladies don't get as much exposure unless it is two of them at a wedding ceremony.

    So gay guys snuggle with tea and gay women marry.

    That's what I'm learning.


    You forgot the glorification of drug dealers and criminals.....so F’n done.?
     
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    How many people were rooting for Dexter? A serial killer that they wanted to get away.
    How many people were rooting for Sons of Anarchy? Gun-Running M/C that near everyone idolized.
    How many people are rooting for Mayans? Drug-Running and Whoring M/C that many are idolizing.
    And I'm not even going to look in the direction of all the "good place/multi-colored FlAG'S/harmony-izing/Everyone-Gets-A-Hug/sing-along" BULLSHIT that is slathered everywhere.

    I may not be the smartest chisel in the drawer, but I do prefer to do my own thinking for myself. Many years ago, when I was in University, it was for a "Double-Honors Major in Physics and Chemistry with a Minor in Biology". True story.

    Question is, WHO DOES THAT anymore? Who even talks about it? It's all about 'underwater-basketweaving' and 'social aspect of ancient mesopotamian art techniques' and if it has anything to do with agriculture then it is "what color corn goes best with your farmhouse paint at sunset"?

    And THAT is what is wrong with society as a whole. But I'm not bitter...........
     
    How many people were rooting for Sons of Anarchy? Gun-Running M/C that near everyone idolized.

    I always wondered what was going on in the heads of those writers.
    They start out with kind of a rebel outlaw type character that might have some redeeming qualities or at least be kind of likeable.
    Then by the last season they turn him into a psychopathic killer, that basically kills off his own entire family, all his friends, lots of innocent people and then stages a grand suicide.
     
    So what's it going to take, to get a number of bazillionaires (there's gotta be quite a few of them) who're both Republican AND Freedom-Loving, to start up a tv channel or two (there's already a bazillion channels of drivel) that focus on Real values, Real comedy, and Real morals?

    A place where all the 'cancelled' shows can go, and other shows that we WANT to watch/see/learn can be. You know, the RIGHT/CORRECT/PROPER side of reality and humanity. No catering at all to the idiotic, 'multi-colored-flag', blithering allah-peanutbutter-cookies, mindless crap that is purported pretty much everywhere else.

    An oasis in a sea of depravity, so-to-speak? I'm just sayin'....

    I can tell you why that won't happen. I was told that only four, FOUR people (or corporations) own all the channels. I'm guessing by now you know which way most of 'em lean. I think another guy bought into it so it may be five now. This was years ago but I doubt much has changed.

    I wish though. I thought that the History Channel was gonna be it in the 90's. But they proved me wrong! So has every channel since, every single one that starts out on history or science quickly turns into aliens, ufo's and monsters. WTF? Or some conspiracy bullshit anyone with a computer can go find to be false (like the hunt for Hitler in Argentina). Why waste time when there are so many other REAL subjects that could be explored?

    I don't know. Maybe I bitch too much, I thought of that too. It's hard to put in words, but I just don't see things going as well for mankind as it should be, and nobody is willing to do what's needed to fix it. What that is depends on the person, but I'm sure most people are aware of it.
     

    THIS pretty much says it all, yeah? Wasn't this movie yanked from theatres all over early on for suspicious reasons? Wanna say they said it didn't do well, but I'd bet they didn't advertise well either. That movie is an icon and sums up totalitarian capitalism run amok.

    Probably one of the best indictments of American culture. The fight scene? One of the best. It looks stupid if you view it as him fighting about wearing the glasses. But what the fight is really about is the struggle between indoctrination and total control vs. enlightenment and seeing the truth. Most people don't want to see the truth, they'll fight and go to the mat to keep their illusion. It's an opiate of the masses.

    The movie is too deep for many people to get unfortunately, despite their efforts to make it as overt and approachable as possible. That's sad.
     
    I saw the BS years ago in the MASH series, Archie Bunker, Maude, on and on and on. Hell one of my favorite movies is Blazing Saddles but there's some very questionable scenes worked in there near the end that leads you to wonder WhyTF did they even bother to put that in there unless it was pushing an agenda? Oh, and the last time I saw that movie actually broadcast without censoring was on none other than the BET network.
     
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    Years ago, the Evening News was about journalistic integrity and in keeping American up to date on the latest issues.

    Now (remember I work in the industry and know many Producers, Writers, and Actors) it is *all* about "Agenda" and that Agenda is grooming you to buy what they are selling. The Evening News is about the commercials and the stories. graphics, scripting, etc is all about grooming you to buy shit from the people who paid for the commercials and produced the show/own the media outlet.

    Virtually everything you read, see, hear, has been stocked with graphics, colors, sounds, plots and faces to manipulate you. America is owned and wholly commercial - if one wants to know what the "Agenda" is just follow the money and research the producers and advertisers.

    Yer not watching The News or enjoying a Movie- yer being manipulated mentally, physically, and spiritually. Your not watching a commercial about the virtues of a new exciting product...yer being played and physiologically programmed using extremely sophisticated means.

    Wanta hoot? Watch the evening news from the US about world events and then watch Al Jazeera, the BBC, or another global based news source and notice that the US gets drivel and the stuff you see on a Global news source has information Americans have no clue is going on, much of it purveyed by our own Government.

    Haven't watched TV in years for this very reason. It's all propaganda.

    VooDoo
     
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