Television’s Benevolent Mind Control Program?

Posted by Raymond on April 8, 2010

Although the premise of this article will probably enrage many of you, I can see its truth as I think back to my own childhood.  I’m from Georgia, and though I have a bit of an accent. I believe the reason I don’t sound like a total Squidbilly is because of childhood access to a VCR and cable television.  My first intellectual pursuits were not inspired topics we covered at school, but rather by programs (James Burke in particular) that I saw on TLC and A&E, and yes even PBS.  All that said, NBC ideas about “behavior placement” are ridiculous.

From Gawker:

America is a nation of mostly poor, unattractive people who take their cues on life from the fictional actions of rich, attractive characters on television. The NBC network, your father figure, has decided to educate our slackjawed populace. With television!

It used to be that NBC used its teevee shows’ potent mind control powers only to sell us Subway sandwiches, and feebly remind us to recycle. But knowing that you, the insecure American viewer, will take the advice of fictional 30 Rock characters when it comes to selecting a carbonated beverage, NBC figured, hey, why not instruct our viewers on how to accomplish the most basic tasks that will allow them to live a moderately healthy life, without drowning to death in their couch under a tidal wave of Cheez-Its? A healthy consumer is a consumer that can purchase advertised products, as they say in our nation’s scientific broadcasting academies. Therefore, the WSJ reports today, NBC has instituted “behavior placement” along with product placement in its shows—to teach you, the American Idiot, how to Be Good.

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