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Bek was right!

homerous — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:14:03 +0000

Bek’s wanted to point out the tabloidization of the media espacially in the news. I tried to do the same kind a research for the last couple of days and saw that ithe quality of the news is actually getting desperate and desperate every single day. We see that the important stuff, like the actual politics of the politicians rather than their lifestyles, isn’t that important. It seems that people, and by people I mean the whole society which are the viewers, dont care about the serious stuff they prefer the “less important” stuff like, whp wore what for the Emre Belezoğlu wedding. And I also spotted that the number of real politics programs are so little compared to morning “women” programs which are mostly about just famous people and their lives. Its the same with sports programs, I mean there are a couple of maybe wannabe or retired sportsman arguing about a single position in a match for hours. But can we balme the media owners?, I guess not, because isn’t that what the people wants fancy lif stories rather than serious subjects. The media companies are just giving the people what they want without questioning the quality. I think its the time, and I also think its quite late, for the media networks start to get responsible and put some more serious stuff on the TV, because I think that Tv could actually make things better for the society as is it made it worst.

Tabloidization

homerous — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:39:02 +0000

“People” expect to be entertained. A boring and serious news on the TV won’t attract any audience and news people being also “people” know what their audience wants. A news about a cat singing is much more intersting than a news about the economical difficulties that our country could face in 2009 for example. These kinds of expectations also effect the subjects, which are the people that “news” are made of, like, we mostly see the rich and their luxurious lives or the poor an their desperate lives. This causes a tablodization in the news. The way to overcome this problem is simple and its with “education”. I know its not a unique solution but with education we could change the expectations of the audience and finally get a quality 8 o’clock news.

The Addiction

homerous — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:27:16 +0000

There are many kinds of addictions, like drug, alcohol and smoking. But TV addiction is something that should be discussed on another level. TV has only been in our lives for half a century yet us still managed to get addicted to it. TV addiction kills social and family life. We make are schedules depending on TV programs. For example even if we are going to meet are girlfriend the football match on TV sometimes seems better. TV also ended family conversations and rituals. Before TV families spent their time together talking, disgussing, playing games etc. But now we don’t even watch TV together. Everybody has its own favourite program so TV time becomes solo time at the same time. TV addiction is one of the worst addictions eventough it is not that unhealthy as the others. I believe that this could be solved by creating “TV addicts support groups” like the ones about drugs and alcohol. That way we may be able to get over this modern world disease.

Reality or virtuality?

homerous — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:17:55 +0000

Tv has a great role in our daily life without a doubt and reality TV shows are part of this. Reality shows gets high ratings every country in the world, so we can’t say that its only peculiar to the undevelopt countries. But why is it like this? Maybe we only mostly prefer to watch so called “real” people instead of nearly perfect people. But this also raises another question “Are the people on reality Tv programs real or fake, in this case I think its better to call them virtual. Surely they are not proffessional actors but I believe that everybody can act. Maybe the TV show producers just want to satisy the reality need of the TV viewers with a shot of “virtual” reality people.

What are we really fighting for?

homerous — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:04:52 +0000

Mariage is a sacred bond between two people which symbolizes their love to each other. On the other hand marriage also has a legal side. Couples who get marry have get marry get some specific rights trough the law. However the reason that gay people want to have the right to marry isn’t only these privaliges that we gain after marriage. Getting married showes people that we are in a way just “together”. By getting married we surely let the community know that we are in a mutual relationship and that we have some responsibilities(mostly economical) to each other. The gay community wants the same thing, they don’t only want to be know as “partners” they want the community to take their relationship serious as the other marriages. So I guess gay marriage should be allowed on these bassis because I believe that all humans should have the right to marry.

Could we blame Stew for his relationship with Kitty?

homerous — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:03:48 +0000

Stew, for sure, had also a diffucult childhood because of his neglecting father. But is this an excuse for his relationship with his daughter, well I would say it is hard to take sides on this issue.

Kitty definetly didn’t fit the perfect daughter image. She had too many problems that could be understandable till one point. We all know that teenagers have problems of their own(school, girlfriends, parents etc.) but Kitty being a lesbian seperates her from the rest. Stew was a caring father but after Kitty ”changed” his reactions towards her also changed. He was not that much loving anymore and we also knew that he even tried to throw her out of the house. But we sitll can’t say that he didn’t care even a bit about Kitty, we surely know that he would give a fortune just to make things better between him and Kitty.

So at the end I would say that Stew should not be blamed totally for the wicked relationship that he has with Kitty because Kitty was not an easy daughter to deal with. But I still agree that Stew was sometimes too harsh on her. So as I had said in the beginning it is hard to take sides on this issue.

Was Emily really happy about being single?

homerous — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:32:17 +0000

Through the story Emily was pitied by the town people for not having a real relationship with anyone for years. But didn’t she had the the chances to marry when she was young, she actually did but her father didn’t approve any of the candidates. Because, to him his family was too good for the ordinary people of the town. After her father’s death maybe she did have the chance to marry someone but we all now that she didn’t take it(except the Homer issue which we are not totally informed about). So what we actually can come up with Emily is that maybe she preferd loneliness over a life spent with someone else.