TAB THINK
The selection of tabloid style newspapers on the stands near the checkout counters at your local super market are a changeable lot. They come and go. The stories they headline are mostly based on being timely rather than true. They often jump ahead of actual events, at times with suggestion of what might happen if things remain as they are ,which seldom happens.
Initial purchaser of such gaudy journals is based on spur-of-the-moment buying. The display is located at a place where someone who finds something of interest cannot really examine it without being on display while doing so.
There are three or four titles which seem to bloom for a time then fade away, only to come blazing back with a new set of fabrications. After years of telling what they claim to be the :real: story about the death of Princess Diane, new rumors or potential nonspecific. The mostly unlikely people are being show to us this week to snag additional takers/.This type of tawdry journalism is the lifeblood of more than one facet of our home entertainment. Several well know network personalities , who's names you would recognize readily, are producing and starring in TV shows dedicated to showing all they think they “can get away with.” And, they do , too. “get by with it” for s time. Scraps of nudity, sexually oriented body movements, profanity, flawed language terms, body language and sexual innuendo, are becoming common to most such shows and both runs and endless re-runs draw millions. of viewers - or should that, perhaps be read as “voyeurs”?
Segments of the Internet offer the same selections of journalistic sewerage.
Many realize this trend is not one which should be enlarged. Most seem to feel it should be curbed. We have not yet learned the simple truth that one of the most fundamental of re-runs is that it is very difficult to legislate morality.
We displayed a very impressive national display if “shock” recently when Janet Jackson choose to bare one half of her bosom be for those watching the half-time tab-type show during the Super Bowl Game. At that very moment far greater violations of the female image on other TV channels and on lewd Internet pages maintained specifically for Tab-Think persons - both men and women of all ages =
those who chose to watch them. The news stands went right on restocking the shelves without causing any great manifestation of nationwide shame or shock
Who stands, ready and willing, to cast the first stone?
A.L.M.. February 20, 2004 [c436wds]
