I’m taking bets on whether it will be TV3 or TVNZ who are first to actually air a show called “Ow, My Balls!”
(for those who haven’t seen it, this is a reference to the genius comedy movie ‘Idiocracy’, not just a crude joke)

Ratings reflect people’s choices among the options available, not what they *want* to watch. If only TV ratings could somehow include all the TV shows that people watch through other media, the results would be very different. You know, all the stuff people binge watch on DVD or streaming services, or download as torrents, because they don’t want to watch the garbage free-to-air channels serve up, especially the almost 50% of that air time taken up by ads and sponsorship messages.

If almost every aisle at the supermarket was filled with variations on human faeces, it would hardly surprising if a lot of people ate shit. That doesn’t mean it’s good for them, or that we shouldn’t put pressure on the supermarket to offer something less gross and more nutritious to their customers. I owe this charming mental images to Ozzie stand-up comic Steve Hughes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mgn-fXZRiM

I QUIT TV 7 yrs ago.

THEREAFTER, I STARTED TO GET MY OWN MIND BACK.
(Started to question, started to realise there’s ALWAYS a DIFFERENT side of any Story from PREPROCESSED & FED to general public, via Mainstream “NEWS”.

GET RID OF YOUR F***king SMARTPHONES =NO 2

= 2 BEST STRATEGIES TO QUIT OUR FAKE MIND CONTROLLED WORLD.

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SMARTPHONES HAVE DONE >> N O T H I N G .

= Z E R O.

To improve LIFE for HUMANITY. (In fact they’ve made life WORSE.)

SO WHY..? ARE WE FORCED TO HAVE THEM?

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RESIST ALL and any of today’s “DO IT ONLINE” (tricks)

There are MULTIPLE these days, (eg “Staying Online with your doctor just got easier”)

RESIST. Because THEY ARE NOT AIMING TO MAKE LIFE “EASIER”.

LIFE IS GETTING WORSE.

(UNLESS you are bought by a large salary , then you DONT CARE. What happens to rest of people.)

I don’t actually own a TV, but when ever I visit various relatives I get the impression that reality tv is all thats on offer.
These are people who would happily watch quality drama and docos…thats what they used to watch, plus a few soaps, but now they sit there watching all this reality gunk, and something they seem to call ‘News”, though why i don’t know.
They are, infact, so disengaged that they often watch TV with the sound off, and even when it is on it quickly becomes apparent that they aren’t actually listening.
Thing with humans…offer them shinny crap and they will soak it up…offer them quality programs of interest…and they will soak that up equally.
A responsible progressive government takes control of some media…for the betterment of the population, the same way government controls education and health.

I use to think it was funny when contestants on big brother would whisper as if every one wasn’t listening 😀

Reality TV is both cheap to produce and incredibly popular. Just look at the weekly Nielsen ratings in the TV Guide. Other than Shortland Street the Top 15 is entirely made up of News, Reality TV, Gameshows, and the odd documentary. All of these are “reality” in one form or another. You can complain endlessly about “reality TV”, but factually it’s what people watch – especially that key demographic of 18-30 year olds who have both disposable income and can still be influenced by advertising. Also just be glad we don’t have even worse garbage like “Opposite World”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKFgn6tNU6w