Why are TV channels manipulating us.
Posted by: Gerry1945
8th Mar 2013 10:13am
Why have Commercial TV channels made watching TV so painful. Start program 10:36 finish 11:03 and even advertised times are rarely met except for those labeled 5 o'clock news etc. Why do we just accept it.
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edna
I agree absolutely. I really dislike ads that are put on twice in one ad break. They are so boring and repetitive. I change channels. I get up and do the dishes, put the kettle on. I watch very few of them because they credit us with so little intelligence. In fact I avoid some products simply because they have been thrust in my face so many times when all I wanted to do was watch a decent program. Sometimes I mimic the people the way they use their hands, head movements, smiles and facial expressions. I reckon I could do a good skit on advertisements. Even the beauty before and after looks, stand full on for 'before' and sideways for the 'after'. Look 'sad' for the before and look 'happy' for the after pose. Oh and you have to remember to shout. People will buy your produce apparently if you shout.
edna
Yes especially the lady with an English accent. It's not the accent but she has such a harsh nasal voice. I wonder if she needs tonsils or adenoids seeing to.
Gerry1945
Yes I agreee, screechy annoying voices I mute the TV ..face cream ads they always blur the phots so you have perfect skin, NOT.
flippe
'We' are the silent majority! Sometimes we get what we deserve. Suggest we do not watch commercial TV (we do not have to) and go to books or other things that are most likely more beneficial and more rewarding than watching TV. Some of us are trapped into the TV habit. Not all of us grew up with TV and are possibly more resourceful in entertaining ourselves or keeping busy/occupied.
TV is more an advertising medium than an entertainment source. That is how commercial TV survives or operates. They are not there for our benefit, simply their own and advertisers benefits.
Anonymous
The TV is the MOST Powerful Mind Numbing tool used to not only make you buy some thing you really don't need!! But also for conditioning the masses through Disinformation & Propaganda!!! Stop watching the idiot box & start getting your news, views, & info on the internet that's relevant to our very survival. If we all changed our ways & waked up out of our TV induced trance we could change this world around & stop this Control Grid of Oppression!!!!! Wake up to the New World Order & Agenda 21 people we are sleepwalking into our own enslavement!!!!