A large part of that was due to the Standards and Practices Censorship from NARTB.  For instance Lucille Ball could not use the word "pregnant".  Not because they had too high of a standard, but because the censorship blocked it.  There was a constant back and forth between what was or could be filmed and what the censorship would allow.  Entire episodes were filmed but never approved for airing.

 TV won't do it on it's own, it never has thus the invention of NARTB.

 So all we need in order to bring TV back to it's more ethical standards is to bring back more Corporate and Government censorship.  

Tacky reality shows have a higher profit margin
Cheap to produce, and scandal sells

Quality is expensive
Garbage is cheap

Don't like them, don't watch
Problem is, a lot of tasteless low IQ people will watch
The Apprentice for instance
You weren't a fan?
Go figure  

Nobody voted Woopie President

Thanks for your OPINION, and Spin that it is Censorship's fault.

 Oh did I forget to declare my post is the same as all other posts on this forum and is an opinion?  For those incapable of understanding what an opinion is, this post is an opinion.

   
Censorship has nothing to do with TEACHING MOLDABLE young people.

 NARTB section specific to children specifies, specifically, "education of children" in the very first sentence.  My opinion is that education, and TEACHING are the same thing.  Censorship attempted to teach values.

1. The education of children involves giving them a sense of the world at large. Crime, violence, and sex are a part of the world they will be called upon to meet, and a certain amount of proper presentation of such is helpful in orienting the child to his surroundings. However, violence and illicit sex shall not be presented in an attractive manner, nor to an extent such as will lead a child to believe that they play a greater part in life than they do. They should not be presented, without indications of the resultant retribution and punishment.

2. It is not enough that only those programs which are intended for viewing by children shall be suitable to the young and immature. Television is responsible for insuring that programs of all sorts which occur during the times of day when children may normally be expected to have the opportunity of viewing television shall exercise care in the following regards:

(a) In affording opportunities for cultural growth as well as for wholesome entertainment.

(b) In developing programs to foster and promote the commonly accepted moral, social, and ethical ideals characteristic of American life.

(c) In reflecting respect for parents, for honorable behavior, and for the constituted authorities of the American community.

(d) In eliminating reference to kidnapping of children or threats of kidnapping.

(e) In avoiding material which is excessively violent or would create morbid suspense, or other undesirable reactions in children.

(f) In exercising particular restraint and care in crime or mystery episodes involving children or minors.


 To say censorship has "nothing" to do with TEACHING MOLDABLE is like saying standards in education has nothing to do with teaching because all teachers do the right thing.  We know this is not true, and mega-corporations are certainly no better.

 TV Networks  are corporations designed to make money.  They were not attempting to maintain an ethical standard for the sake of TEACHING, but instead created programs designed to sell ads, or make money.  NARTB was developed specifically because TV networks, on their own, would not prioritize the lower-income programming designed for ethical TEACHING but instead attempted to make more "edgy" programs, or for that matter, ones that sell ads.  To reduce the "wild West" of broadcast television, they created their own standards to improve the impact on children, and to reduce Government interference.

 PBS is a result of the lack of Private Corporation TV wanting to make educational programming.  No money in it.

 You want more ethical TV programming, go back to the 1950's NARTB censorship.  That should cover a lot of the problems.

MnSpring wrote on Today at 10:59:47:

Harris Walz?.... Seriously?

Is it her 34 felony convictions?, being banned from ever having anything to do with charities?, Adjudicated rapist?, $25 million Trump University payout?, $100 million slander?, $500 million tax evasion?...

Kamala who?   What did she do? Jaywalk?  
Are you insane?

Serowbot wrote on Today at 11:17:39:


Don't know about Jay Walking
DO KNOW, she directly let a criminal out to KILL three people.

DO KNOW, she help to fund bail for 2 people in MN who went on to KILL.

DO KNOW, she IGNORED the Boarder ILLEGAL influx.

DO KNOW, she knows NOTHING about how economics work.

DO KNOW, she has NEVER made clear, planed out, policies about something.

DO KNOW, she makes 'WORD SALADS" when she knows nothing about the subject, and she actually believes people think she is smart.

DO KNOW, she does Sound Bites, just for votes from 18-35 year olds, who just don't know how things work, and the 25-60 to stupid to understand.

 
DO KNOW, she knows what can happen when she follows the instructions of the UL Socialists Puppet masters. (See 'Sound Bites')


"...Are you insane?..."