[stumpstalker]

The kind of show being described, or at least prefigured by the posts of Brett and Brian, remind me of why I have never bothered to buy a TV, seeing enough of it in other people’s homes or on the tug boats I have worked on where in the common area it is on continuously.

I am reminded of WICKED TUNA, which show has publicized a sport/commercial fishery I have had some involvement in over several decades. It is not enough to highlight the talents of the participants in an extraordinary setting. No, they invariably have to be demeaned, ofttimes reduced to nattering gossipers or even portrayed at their most grotesque, intemperate worst. It just does not square with what I have known, but unfortunately probably does influence an emerging new standard of behavior.

I know ‘there is a lot of good stuff on TV”, but there is still enough of it that for me makes TV, to this day, a national embarrassment.