I don't think you can blame the media.

If nobody WATCHED the show, it would have been gone within 10 episodes. I never bothered to watch it, myself -- couldn't imagine what was entertaining about it, either. Come to think of it, there's a lot of shows that I don't watch.

The Internet is changing the face of the media, though -- even Youtube channels help fuel the demand for types of shows.

Well exactly what I mean its more of a message simply don't watch the garbage. We are condoning these types of reality shows, because our society has evolved into the stuck up housewives, where they are pampered with money, jewelry, and everyday is a manicure or a shopping spree. Also you have Jersey Shore or Keepin' up with the Kardashians. Garbage, yet people tune into these shows. These shows can be stopped by simply not watching them, however; parents of America need to wake up, and keep an eye on what their children watch. Children tend to be what they see on television every girl wants to be a Snooky, or a Kim, and males want to be the pimp mack daddy who think just because they act like those Jersey Shore fools think they can spit game. Soon I hope to see these shows disappear. Simple act of war by using the philosophy of Bruce Lee "The Art Of Fighting, Without Fighting." Blood will not be shed, but hearts will be broken once these shows are cancelled.

Originally posted by KonquestAbySS
You can see how this affects the human mind. Someone who was portrayed as a violent person in a show ended up having depression or violent behaviour in real life, yet we allow these awful shows to continue. The media is definitely taking a toll on mankind. If we continue to allow shows like these to be aired there is no telling what will happen to our society in years to come. We shouldn't be worrying about other countries, we should be worrying about the media.

I never watch television. It causes severe decay of social fabric & extreme dischord in our existential outlook. I live in the UK.. sometimes I may turn on the news, the bbc news & listen to the most inhumanely orated news item thinking to myself WOW this society is going to take a loong time to recover & wake up from this hypnosis we have been put under by the illuminati media. They control perception therefore they control everything. This war is long overdue!

Although people will never admit it, everyone is greatly influenced by the media. Imagine how most people would dress if there was no such things as TV, magazines or anything that dictates fashion. Everyone would probably look very different.

It's even worse when it comes to music and music video's, namely hip hop and rap videos that promote violence and crime. It does nothing but influence EVERYONE who likes rap and hip hop to take on such attitudes in life. Society needs to reject such perpetuation of violence if they don't want it in their own plain and simple. I remember how France banned "violent" hip hop after they had riots. Why hasn't America done anything like that when they have the highest incarceration rates in the world?

GORE VIDAL(1925-), the master essayist of our age, has been called the best all-around American man of letters since Edmund Wilson(1895-1972). He has written a great deal about American society and its media. He began his writing career at nineteen in 1944, the year I was born. In 1962, the year I prepared for my university entrance exams, and begin my own serious literary and academic study, Vidal published his first book of essays entitled: Rocking the Boat. Books of his essays and interviews, novels and memoirs kept appearing as I entered the teaching profession in the 1960s and finally retired in the 1990s. He’s still going, although not as strong at 85 and often in a wheel-chair.-Ron Price with thanks to Harry Kloman, “Gore Vidal’s Essays, Interviews and Memoirs: 1963-Present,” 2005.

He always impressed me with
his remarkable wit and talent:
5 decades of scintillating words
in books & live whenever I saw
him on TV…He saw the moral-
intellectual hollowness of USA
politics at the same I did—in the
early 1960s with those Kennedys
and so he spent the rest of his life
writing books and essays--a lot of
other stuff(1)---thinking on paper for
a world slowly captured by electronic
distractions. Still, we go on talking about
books and writing them pretending not to
notice that the church is empty and people
have gone over to attend to other gods in
silence or new words. Surely it’s not that
bad, is it Gore? Is it?(2)

1 The Washington Post calls him “the master essayist of our age.” See David Barsamian, “Citizen Gore Vidal,” These Times, 3 November 2008
2 George Scialabba, “Civic Virtues: Gore Vidal’s Selected Essays,” The Nation, 8 October 2008.

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