GTB
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Suicide on TV: Legitimate Viewing?With televisual boundaries being broken all the time do you think that a new boundary has been broken with the screening of a person with Motor Neurone disease committing suicide? Was it really necessary to screen such a thing?
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Attrebates
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Re: Suicide on TV: Legitimate Viewing? | GTB wrote: | | With televisual boundaries being broken all the time do you think that a new boundary has been broken with the screening of a person with Motor Neurone disease committing suicide? Was it really necessary to screen such a thing? |
No it wasn't necessary to screen it (in my view) but equally it wasn't necessary to watch it.
Enough warnings were given as to the content so that one could exercise their channel switching fingers or even the on/off button.
Personal choice, but I have no wish to watch it and I didn't.
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Local lass
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in all honesty i think it was a good thing that it was on.I do belive in it and if something happend to me like that then i would want that to.
it brought to light a very contraversial subject.they were right to view it.
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Peter Dolman
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the ultimate in reality TV, no I do not think it was acceptable and did not watch it.
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GTB
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Wasn't there an uproar in the 1960s when a nature programme decided to show two rabbits mating. God knows what the sensors of the 60's would make of today's TV. Mary Whitehouse would not be amused!
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Peter Dolman
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surely you are to young for the 60's who told you about that your grandmother?
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GTB
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I certainly am too young to remember the 1960s. :thumbl: I can only just remember the 1970s.
I remember this "rabbit fact" from seeing a documentary on changing attitudes towards television. At one time there was almost no swearing at all and then it would have been a very late night film. In some ways TV has improved a hell of a lot but in some moral ways it has declined.
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Peter Dolman
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I agree, TV & Radio have been dumbing down for many years. I believe that it does reflect society but it also should be setting standards for society.
An example of what is unacceptable is Jamie Oliver and other so called celebrity chefs swearing profusely on what is likely to be a family programme. For goodness sake do we really need that on a programme about cooking.
You expect some in a drama late at night but not when they are shown!
Too much violence, drugs, nudity and sex.
To much cheap nasty programmes.
To much reality TV.
Bring back moral standards that will help our children become resonsible rounded adults.
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Attrebates
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| Peter Dolman wrote: | I agree, TV & Radio have been dumbing down for many years. I believe that it does reflect society but it also should be setting standards for society.
An example of what is unacceptable is Jamie Oliver and other so called celebrity chefs swearing profusely on what is likely to be a family programme. For goodness sake do we really need that on a programme about cooking.
You expect some in a drama late at night but not when they are shown!
Too much violence, drugs, nudity and sex.
To much cheap nasty programmes.
To much reality TV.
Bring back moral standards that will help our children become resonsible rounded adults. |
OK, Peter, you get my vote as chairman of the Grumpy old Gits Society. That's quite an accolade as you have only just acknowledged your membership.
You are 100% correct, of course, but unfortunately it is a view that is only properly appreciated from knowing what has gone before.
It is good in as much as some important aspects of life can be freely and openly discussed. The seamier side of life, which has always been with us, is given a higher degree of visiblility and creates the false impression that ALL of life is like that portrayed.
I may be niaive, but I believe that the majority of youngsters are not as often seen on TV. Many, who do not go to university, are very keen to progress quietly in their own way in life and are not as the vocal minority seen on the streets of this fair town or on TV.
Despair from the older generations about the young have always been with us. I remember my father's non PC words about my brother's Beatle's records as being Jungle music.
In the Forces, the 'hairy old chiefs' views on the young upstarts, such as me, were unprintable.
The life, aims, ambitions and way of life maybe totally different to us oldies, but THEY have to live it whilst we can only look on in bewilderment as did our parents and grandparents.
Were we any better than our children or are we any better than our parents ? ?
or does TV reflect or lead changes in society ? ?
Do we take TV too seriously ? Perhaps only those who do not know how to decide whether to watch or go and do something useful.
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