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According to a report from AdAge, every single network drama that aired on Tuesday night experienced a double-digit decline in ratings. And aside from a decent showing from The Muppets, the report relays that there have been few bright spots to the start of this year's fall TV lineup.
[...] All told, cumulative viewership during "Premiere Week", as it's called, is down 8% compared to the same period a year-ago. More worrisome for TV networks is that viewership from the highly sought-after 18-24 demographic is down 20% year over year, with male viewership within that demographic falling by 24%.
Males in the 18-24 demographic are the most coveted in advertising because that's when studies show brand preferences are formed. 24% is a catastrophic decline for TV.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @01:33PM
I would like to believe that the kids are getting smarter. My early youth was spent in front of the boob tube, unless the sun was shining. Later youth in front of the television, unless I could sneak out the door. Adolescence saw very little television. There were countless times that I left the family clustered around that glowing magic box, so that I could do ANYTHING else. Read a book. Go hunting. Mow a lawn. (my pocket money came from lawn work, shoveling snow, and other odd jobs) Work on a freind's car. Walk anywhere. (That's a lie - back then, I never walked if I could run.)
Television has been just plain stupid for as long as I can remember. Archie Bunker, and his bigoted bullshit? Or, that other guy, the black Archie Bunker, what was his name?
I remember getting flyers in the mail, asking me to subscribe to - ohhhh maybe 150 channels. Or more. I actually looked at them. MTV was the most interesting thing (at that time) but I couldn't justify spending thirty or forty bucks a month on it. Little interest in sports, no interest in soaps, less interest in moronic action channels - and MTV wasn't worth it.
So, I would LIKE to think that the kids are getting smarter.
But, alas, the truth is, the kids have found that they can find all that same simple minded "entertainment" cheaper on the internet. Better yet, they can have 4chan on the internet, without paying the cable companies for the privilege.
So, maybe they aren't any smarter, but at least they haven't gotten stupider!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday September 27 2015, @01:48PM
Or, that other guy, the black Archie Bunker, what was his name?
Bill Cosby?
You can't be thinking of Gary Coleman, can you?
Will Smith/Fresh Prince of Bel Aire? For a good laugh check out the "Thomas the dank engine" remix of that theme song on youtube.
Mr T? Not seeing it.
The pool's kinda thin on the ground for the late 70s/early 80s.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @01:57PM
Gimme a minute - I'll find him . . . The Jefferson's. From the wikipedia,
"The show focuses on George and Louise Jefferson, an affluent African-American couple living in New York City. The show was launched as the second spin-off of All in the Family, on which the Jeffersons had been the neighbors of Archie and Edith Bunker."
George Jefferson was actually a little funnier than Archie was, although that's not saying much.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2015, @02:35PM
Back in the '70s I saw Sherman Helmsley (George Jefferson) in the Broadway show Purlie! (all black cast). (Junior hs field trip).
I don't remember much about the play other than the song "First thing Monday Mornin'" and Helmsley, who projected controlled high energy.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @03:15PM
Add to the AC profile, he's an old bastard. Junior high field trip, he saw Helmsley on Broadway. Old, old bastard . . . .
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2015, @03:55PM
You spent your youth watching Archie Bunker, so that makes you a spring chicken?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @04:33PM
ROFLMAO - https://soylentnews.org/~Runaway1956/ [soylentnews.org]
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Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Monday September 28 2015, @02:06PM
Don't forget that "All in the Family" wasn't an original idea.
Also from the wikipedia,
"The inspiration for Archie Bunker was Alf Garnett, the character from the BBC1 sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, on which All in the Family was based". "The Bunker character was portrayed as somewhat more likable than Garnett ever was".
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2015, @03:49PM
> Television has been just plain stupid for as long as I can remember. Archie Bunker, and his bigoted bullshit?
Sometimes I think you are doing a caricature of yourself. No one can honestly be that clueless, right?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @04:40PM
So - give us a few clues, alright?
Did you even read the wikipedia link I offered? Right there in black and white (no racism intended, I hope) it states that a SJW company employed these actors to highlight social issues of the time. The actor played the part of a highly bigoted white man who hated blacks, and looked down on almost everyone else, including Polacks and Degos. No matter who or what the actor was, no matter the intentions of the SJW executives, the CHARACTER was a bigoted asshole. In fact, I think that he was so much a bigoted asshole, that he embarrassed a few million real bigots enough to make them take stock of their bigotry.
So, now, you add a few insightful clues for all the rest of us, since you're so very smart.
Oh - wait - maybe I'm reading you wrong. Surely Archie wasn't one of your heroes, was he? Maybe you are the bigot that the show was aimed at? Did Archie embarrass you, or not?
Give us some clues, AC - or maybe you are Whiskey Fueled himself?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2015, @06:00PM
Wow, you are so amazingly disconnected from the real world that you can literally explain why All in the Family was brilliant social criticism using Archie Bunker as a foil but your take away from the very same words is that it was "just plain stupid." Holy crap! I never really believed that the "conservative mind" was different, but you are making a fantastic case for proving me wrong.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @07:39PM
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the "conservative mind" really is different than that of a liberal mind. You might read Vox Day's writing, beginning with 'SJW's always lie'. Sometimes, I'm surprised that the two can interbreed.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2015, @07:51PM
> Sorry to burst your bubble, but the "conservative mind" really is different than that of a liberal mind.
Anyone who thinks that a tv show which convinced millions of bigots to reconsider their bigotry was a bad thing is either insane or profoundly evil. There is no place in the world for someone like that.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @08:19PM
I might suggest that you go back and actually READ MY POSTS. Nowhere did I use the words "bad thing". The worst thing I said about the show is, it was so much mindless drivel. Like all other sitcoms, it's aimed at the Lowest Common Denominator. People with the IQ of a turnip could watch it and be amused. Most people with IQ's at least as high as a household pet have to use mental tricks to get down on that level. Pretty much everything that comes out of Hollyweird is aimed at that Lowest Common Denominator.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday September 27 2015, @07:11PM
Archie was no hero. What he was is a product of his time being forced to slowly evolve and loath to admit it. Likewise, he was no villain.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @07:41PM
Not a villian - just an obnoxious old asshole. I saw a lot of Archie in my own father, and many of the people around me as I was growing up. They weren't villians, but many of them were most definitely assholes.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2015, @07:53PM
Dude, you are an Archie Bunker for the modern day.
Just like all those assholes couldn't recognize their own asshole nature that Archie illustrated back then, neither can you now.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @08:14PM
It's just so thrilling to see my devoted fan club hanging on my every word.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 28 2015, @02:14PM
By using "SJW" to refer to an era well before Tumblr and Twitter existed you're just cheapening it and proving the real SJWs right when they claim it's nothing but a snarl word used to shut down discussion.
Words have meanings, try learning them.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 28 2015, @02:24PM
What nonsense. The phenomenon wasn't invented on Tumblr or Twitter. SJW's have existed since the day of that Sanger broad, who wanted abortion legalized, so that she could get rid of the "weeds of humanity". What do you think, the new generation INVENTED social justice ideals? Remember Marx? Google Karl Marx.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday September 27 2015, @05:16PM
My early youth was spent in front of the boob tube
And your even earlier youth was spent in front of just the boob.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @05:32PM
Below it, I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiqJL9BGuXU [youtube.com]
By the time a child can stand in front of it, he doesn't need it so much.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.