No truth on truth social
There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Kintarian@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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doleo@lemmy.one [bot] 1 week ago
Kintarian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Funny, but true
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The USA FREEDOM Act violates US citizens freedoms and civil liberties.
The “democratic” republic of NK has never been democratic.
Fox News had the motto “Fair and Balanced” for like 20 years, despite being a conservative state propaganda machine.
Turns out you can just lie without consequences!
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s why they had to call it that.
Zink@programming.dev 1 week ago
Also antisocial behavior!
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Because around 20 years ago these networks figured out that they can make just as much money pumping out cheap and crappy reality shows as they can by creating expensive and difficult to produce quality programming.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Capitalism at its best
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
capiTALiSm bREeDS INnOvATIon
Hugin@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And it worked before streaming came around. Now cable subscriptions are in free fall and they don’t know what to do.
eran_morad@lemmy.world 1 week ago
PBS is the only television worth a damn. Incidentally, it is replete with history, documentaries, non-editorial news, music, and science.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Their YouTube channels are also top notch. Spacetime, Storied, Eons, Terra, Origins, Be Smart… all gold.
IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Man I love Spacetime and Eons. I have watched almost all of spacetime. I wish there were a spacetime hardcore where they threw as much math at me as possible. Awesome channels
Chewget@lemm.ee 1 week ago
That’s why they want to get rid of it
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Shout-out the PBS passport. $5 a month and I get all the antiques roadshow I can handle.
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
It’s the tv version of NPR
jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
So true. PBS has always been a reliable place to find something decent to watch when all else fails I feel. Not to mention no commercials! or very little if any.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There’s no foxes on Fox News either.
Chewget@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Nor news
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Yeah, because they own the rights to the name. If only I ran Fox News… damn them.
Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Reminds of an observation my dad made once about how neighborhoods are named after what had to cleared away to build there. Oakwoods. Rolling hills. Pleasent view. Etc etc
rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Because of capitalism. Because all content must drive quarterly profit ever-higher.
Meanwhile, public broadcasting (PBS) is still putting out great content for families regardless of profitability.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Enshittification time
Jomega@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Don’t forget Animal Planet, which hosts shows about tree houses and mermaids now.
jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
that one pisses me off the most, not to mention that pitbulls and parolees or whatever the fuck its supposed to be. I swear its on every day.
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
History channel has Forged in Fire where, for about 30 seconds per episode, they give a quick lesson about the historic weapon the contestants will make.
But yeah, TV is bullshit. Fuck commercials.
BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I always appreciated that in shows like Pawn Stars and American Pickers, yeah the main point is entertainment, but they actually made an effort to explain the objects and history around them.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 week ago
Kinda wish they didn’t need to fake the premise of the show so hard to do the history lesson though.
stoly@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There used to be. Turns out you can make more money with reality TV.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Which reminds me. Reality TV isn’t real.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 week ago
Only temporarily which is why nobody has cable anymore.
stoly@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Cable was only good when broadcast TV was the alternative. Today it’s entirely obsolete
ieightpi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Cable is dying and they will do whatever it takes to keep it afloat until the last second
Kintarian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I can’t remember the last time I had a cable subscription. It’s been a while.
zephorah@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The last time I had cable was the year of 9/11. And that was only because I plugged in a stray cable on a whim and found that my upstairs apartment tapped into the the cable from the downstairs apartment.
Honestly, with internet, I never saw the point. And internet only cost $10-25/mo back then. Ofc, by about 2012 or so they became wise to that being the trend and started jacking the internet bill rates. And now internet costs the same as cable used to cost, or more, depending.
But I don’t think anyone ever did a GenX is Killing Cable TV headline.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 week ago
They really need to pare down the number of channels at this point since they’ve all been bought up by a few companies and all show the exact same shit just at different time slots.
Inucune@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sometimes I can get the weather forecast on The Weather Channel.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 week ago
But there are letters on ABC.
Checkmate, atheists.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
advertising is the most corrosive poison
Kintarian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes, they have people I don’t know trying to sell me things I don’t want and can’t afford just so some bigwig could buy a second yacht.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 week ago
Nickelodeon isn’t actually a movie theater that cost a nickel per show.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There was a time they tried to rebrand as CN and push live action content.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I was 100% watching MTV the other day and they legitimately played some music
Thought I was hallucinating
Kintarian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Are you sure you weren’t smoking something
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
Are you sure it wasn’t just the bumpers to rediculousness?
jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
They use to say television rots the brain, but now it’s clear that television just rots.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 week ago
All of those channels were idealistic and naive. The reality of capitalism destroyed them.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Capitalism just takes advantage of human nature. That’s why it has clearly been the most successful system, at least as a starting point, for the overall well being of a nation.
The issue with these channels is that most people just don’t give a fuck about the information. They want to be entertained. Capitalism is just good system that enabled that to be figured out.
Your issue is not with capitalism, but human nature.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s a bingo!
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So it’s a most or nothing situation? They need to be maximally broadly appealing? That sounds like capitalism to me.
I don’t care if only a certain percentage of people are into these channels. That should be just fine. It is just fine. And I’m not here to guilt anyone because they don’t like watching history shows or whatever else.
The economic model failed the audience of the original versions of these channels. It’s not society as a whole that failed the producers of the channels.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Don’t even get me starting about the Body Shop.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No bodies I suppose. The old bait and switch.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Olive oil is made of olives… at least in Italy it is. Anyway, what about baby oil? Better not think about it.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I just wanted a couple of them for my own reasons and now I have a lifetime ban from the place.
arefx@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
There used to be
Kintarian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
True, greed killed it.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Pure ignorance helped a lot.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Learning on The Learning Channel (TLC)
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That still breaks my heart. There used to be really good shows on that channel.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
All those examples (except MTV) is David Zaslav hard at work. So glad he’s in charge of WB now!
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So… No brothers I guess?
Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Murdoch bought Fox News and History Channel around the same time.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Someone should make a channel called boredom.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 week ago
There is no socialism on social media
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I remember when The Learning Channel had learning on it. Now watching it actively depletes your intellect.
ulkesh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ah, but is there Sy in Syfy?
No. No there isn’t.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 week ago
And Beyond 2000 stopped airing in 1999
deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 1 week ago
There is no Mötorhead on Lemmy
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Discovery is full of shows all about people looking for things but not discovering them.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It is frustrating. I still haven’t found that damn Grail yet.
667@lemmy.radio 1 week ago
One does have to know the airspeed velocity of an unlaiden swallow.
zephorah@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Homestead Rescue is cool. That’s about it.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 week ago
If you think of Discovery like how Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, it does seem fitting. A bunch of bullshit that later lead to genocide and scorched earth. This seems fitting for what they’ve done to HBO and all the other IP they’ve gobbled up and destroyed.