Network Television - Bah Humbug!
TV is mind numbing control of the masses. It started with promiscuity and titillation in the '60 through '90's Soaps (some still running), pushed the boundaries of social taboos in weekly Sitcoms (too many to list), and now depicts every level of amoral debauchery in long running Series. What used to be decent has become uncensored and perverted. A steady diet of murder and mayhem is included in this callousness and demeaning of the human condition.
IMO, in '08, with the "first black President", the networks began an overt and concerted effort to include as many "racial equality" overtones as possible, especially in commercials. Money, powerful money, advertising money, taxpayer money for certain, was directed from white to black - positive to negative - part of the administration and media's "fundamental transformation of America".
If this is any comparison, that '08 shift on TV was not unlike the pointed and concerted effort used by gun manufacturers and writers to advanced the cause of tactical "Black Rifles" into America's consciousness since about '01 after 9-11. Before these, there was a different "branding" being done in America.
I find it subtle and difficult to comprehend in today's "woke" public consciousness, to understand why blacks let themselves "bare all" (practically) and be USED on TV to promote and display personal products (for example: diapers and bras) whereas whites are not, don't, or are (if you will pardon my stab in the dark) "to decent" to be so exposed. There remains a disparity in America that runs deep, wide, and continuous. I don't advocate for any MORE of this "pressing the flesh", just pointing to what looks to me like an example.
Oh yes, we can watch all races as multi-millionaire, anorexic, Victoria's Secret models barring nearly everything they've got left in a "fashion show" display of wings, panties, and bras for the titillation of viewers. It is Snake Oil salesmanship, a hook, and certainly a bursting of the decency "bubble" that had existed since TV's inception. Might just as well take a live camera into the house of Hugh Heffner's Playboy Mansion and perhaps, as Pay per View, that is already possible. I wouldn't know.
I have not cut the cord on my TV yet though. As I get older, and less mobile, there remain a few "redeeming values" in its use - weather at all hours and DVD movie display to name two. YouTube videos have received a lot of my attention of late. Small and large engine repair. Gunsmithing. LED lighting. There is a lot one can learn from the trials of others on YouTube. A lot of it is extremely instructive. You can vicariously go to Africa for a hunting Safari, to Texas for whitetails, western USA for elk, north for caribou, varmint hunt on practically every continent in the world, and some is pretty funny too. Still, the TV is absolutely NO SUBSTITUTE for a day outdoors.