The Tube

“Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.” -Gallagher-

About 70 years ago television was something new, unique and extremely limited. A couple of black and white channels coming in and out of constant static were part of having one. There were 1 or 2 popular channels for entertainment and of course the news.

It seems that in today’s world a person who doesn’t own a TV or cable is incredibly uncommon. TV’s come in all shapes and sizes and with different screens, ranging from LCD’s to Plasma’s. They even come with remote controls so that one doesn’t have the need to get up and turn the dial. Thousands of intense colors swim in the bright screens of emanating light. And although this is all incredibly fascinating, in today’s world it is nothing out of the ordinary. People take it for granted and if anything goes wrong they curse at it because it’s not working the way it should be.
That is, in today’s world we have hundreds of channels, instead of only a few, but more in terms of quantity instead of quality. Every channel that used to have its specialty seems to have lost its glory throughout the years. For example if you think of MTV; it started off as an incredible music video broadcasting channel and ended up showing the most pointless reality TV shows one after another. And another would be Cartoon network, the friendly cartoons ranging from Tom and Jerry to the Flintstones, which now only shows strange animated TV series and even the occasional movie.

It seems as though the industry no longer cares about what they are showing, so long as they make a profit from it. Killing all the original thoughts, and filling the minds of children, teens and adults with unpleasant and useless material. All they accomplish is killing millions of brain cells of the people hoping that maybe something good will come on, even though it is practically hopeless.
Instead of focusing on what is important and what each channel should represent as its own. Sadly the world of television and all of its wonders has come down to what show earns the biggest cash and it only seems to be getting worse every day.