IN YOUR VIEW We seem to be in a period during which we are hearing more-and-more criticism of current TV programing. The wireless worry warts seem to be everywhere!
Seldom is there one complete day with some complaining about the loss of a favorite program, or the strange popularity of a specific show which, to them, has no merit whatsoever.
Most of the time, the person making the charge has someone in mind whom the "blame" for the proper judgment about poor TV shows. It might be "the big TV production companies", "the Hollywood" or they blame "the big TV production companies", "them Hollywood movie makers..." and others for poor programming very much as we are blaming "them big oil company's" and others as being the cause of our paying the highest gasoline prices we have in decades.
Seldom do we find that it can be we, ourselves be, at least a part, of the steady decline of American television in recent years and has been eating away at the bone and marrow of the industry for some time. It has, just recently experienced a hard kick in it's technology gut with marked advances in the "wireless" side of the communications world. Much of the TV scene is being shifted about. You may even have noticed the appearance of the letters "H" and "D" along "T" and "V" in the corner of your local station's ID frame and even painted on the sides of their service vehicles you see around your community. The letters tell you they have made required technical modifications necessary when we, as a nation, shift over to "high definition" television - exclusively.
The technical change upcoming for everyone - viewers and broadcasters alike - will modify such industry areas as programing. The fate of channels, as we know then today in doubt. In fact the entire aspect of the phenomena we know TV to be is in a state of constant change to something which it has never been. It remains to be see how we use the newer HD TV mode.
Much of what TV and the Internet are going to mean in our future depend to a large extent on what the standards of attainment become for educational potential for all citizen the nation can, and will, maintain. The educational advancement of the nations population must be safeguarded and revised for us to make best used of our technical attainments. We are self-contained now within an era in which find a multitude of vies say they prefer th 30-to- 50 year-old series programs being shown steadily on many non many channels. It appears that TV and our schools have stranded them there without guidance to newer, and potentially better level of attainment.
Andrew McCaskey May 20, 2006 [c 472wds]
