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Today?s Television Programming

 

Recently, we had a Satellite dish installed on a couple of our TV’s, as we ready ourselves for the big change over to all digital programming. As a bonus for signing up, we receive free Showtime channels for several months. Not being much on the local program stations this time of year I, have been taking full advantage of those premium channels. As a result, I see many commercials for the new season series programs for cable / Satellite on Showtime. Being accustomed to the more censored local channels and therefore unused to paid programming, I expected it to be a somewhat more program conscientious than what I found it to be. I realize there are the highly sexual orientated shows and movies that you can purchase additionally however, I had not expected these to be during early evening hours. My father even mentioned at dinner one evening that he was, taken aback when he turned over to watch a movie around 7:30 the previous evening to see writhing, naked couples doing things that he considered X-rated programming.

 

 

It has come to my attention that according to network ratings and critics the following are the top three cable/satellite programs watched by all America . If you have not seen them, I will supply a quick description.

 

 

#1. Dexter: About a serial killer, (and I do not mean Tony Tiger’s frosted flakes). This is a story about a man that works as a coroner and in his off time, he goes around killing people. Mostly, these are very gruesome deaths involving the tools of his trade, knives and hatchets showing an enormous amount of blood. Apparently, during the first season he tried to convince himself that the people he killed were bad and deserved to die now, it appears this new season he will be killing more for the pleasure of it.

 

 

#2. Weeds: About a family and close friends grow and sell marijuana in the USA . It depicts the horticultural aspects as well as the financial and legal aspects involving the process of growing bulk lots of the plant. This will be the third season of this show. In the second season, they branched out going into business with a cartel from Mexico smuggling the Marijuana through a tunnel back and forth from Mexico to America . 

 

 

#3. Californication: About a movie and screenwriter living in Los Angeles , CA who sleeps with almost if not all of the women he meets as if he has no control over himself. The premise is he is trying to have a relationship with a woman he professes to love, as he runs around town drinking, doing drugs and having sex at the drop of a hat. Not that he is completely to blame, the women in the show appear to throw themselves at him non-stop.

 

 

I am shocked; the public allow networks to broadcast these types of shows, regardless of access type, local or paid / cable programming.

 

 

Disappointed, that regardless of channel, the public allows this type of programming to air.

 

 

 Saddened, that our morals have dropped so low that we do not up-hold stronger censorship on the caliber of shows that can be so easily accessed day or night by our children.

 

 

Outraged when every day you see and hear in the news about how murders, drugs and prostitution are on the rise in every city in the US , a large part by our young people, even by our children. 

 

 

And confused, when we  frequently hear that TV, movies and video games are to blame so often for street gang fights and drive by shootings and deaths, mass murders, STD’s and child pregnancies being out of control, that we allow and even encourage these types of programs by watching them.  

 

 

 

 

If, such a large part of the violence and sex crimes are committed due to these programs, when is the public going to wake up and take action? Boycott these types of programs and write your congressperson to create and uphold better censorship. Stop this type of programming from being aired before; the damage is done to our young people’s mental, physical and emotional well being.