So this is where TV is at?

[brettdale]

Once again the bar has been lowered.

This is disgusting, the fear this woman is going through for our entertainment.

[Undismayed]

1. Animal abuse plain and simple.

[RB TexLa]

2. Look at what people watch tv. They are providing a service to the level of their audience.

[brettdale]

3. whats next though?

It would appear this woman wanted it to stop, but they kept dunking her in.

And people clapping and cheering on, while she was crying???

It's beyond sick.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

4. This thing need to be find, out the tale for what they did to those snakes!

That is animal cruelty to the max.

You know, the snakes would not bother me. It is the tank of ice water that does. I am terrified of deep water, anything over my ankles. It is also cold. There is a reason I can't watch Titanic.

[Poll_Blind]

5. That's a fucking sick thing to do to snakes. That's really abusive. nt

PB

[Lint Head]

6. It is a vast wasteland.

From Wikipedia.
The Wasteland Speech was a speech given by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Newton N. Minow to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961. The speech was Minow's first major speech after he was appointed chairman of the FCC by President John F Kennedy. In the speech, Minow referred to American commercial television programming as a "vast wasteland" and advocated for programming in the public interest.

"When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better.

But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your own television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And endlessly commercials — many screaming, cajoling, and offending. And most of all, boredom. True, you'll see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, I only ask you to try it."

[Ron Green]

10. And what Minow was describing is a Golden Age of TV

compared to today's landscape.

[Lint Head]

13. Nothing has changed.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. And for this bit of truth Newton Minnow got the boat in Gilligan's Island named after him.

[madfloridian]

7. That's horrible!

[BlueJazz]

8. Is that a scene from "Sliders"...when they went to the ultra-low IQ world ??

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. For your consideration I give you "All My Babies Mamas" coming on Oxygen

A rapper named Shawty Lo gets a reality series about him and his 11 kids by 10 "baby mamas". Just when you thought Teen Mom and Honey Boo Boo were as bad as it could get.

http://www.thefrisky.com/2013-01-07/end-times-are-here-oxygen-special-all-my-babies-mamas-features-man-with-ten-baby-mamas/

[Warren DeMontague]

12. If you go on a hunt through all 900 channels to find something offensive, you're guaranteed a win.

I stick to the Science channel, National Geographic, The Smithsonian and HBO and AMC mostly.

[narnian60]

26. AMC?? You must like commercials.

[Warren DeMontague]

27. No, but I like Mad Men, and Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead.

And I have a DVR, so I fast forward through the commercials.

[narnian60]

28. Understood.

[marshall]

18. Oprah knows how to make a buck

There's a huge demographic for this show.

[TeamPooka]

22. Oxygen and The Oprah Winfrey Netwrok are two different things.

Oprah would never do that Baby Mama series.
OWN is an inspirational network not exploitative.
Except for the Tyler Perry stuff thats on the way....

[Warren DeMontague]

11. You watch a show called "Killer Karaoke" and are surprised when it sucks?

Man, I went to this concert by this band called "Nickelback" and it was complete crap!

In other words, I want my nickel back!

Edited to add: Yes, that whole thing sucks, by the way.

[snooper2]

14. Have you watched the Cartoon Network Lately LOL

[Lint Head]

16. I love the Squidbillies!

[rustydog]

17. Honey effing Boo Boo on the Larnin' channel!

The LEARNING CHANNEL!!!!! WTF America

Idiocracy come to life.

[hobbit709]

19. 90% of TV is mindless, moronic, cretin fodder.

[TheManInTheMac]

23. And the other 10% is even worse.

[Demo_Chris]

20. What the hell? I've seen horror movies less horrific. This is sociopathic and inhuman

Seriously, I am freaking speechless.

[RebelOne]

21. As long as none of them were poisonous, it wouldn't bother me.

I have had 2 pet boa constrictors. I like snakes.

[june starling]

24. Turn off the boob tube, dewd...

No one is forcing you to dumb-down...

[ProdigalJunkMail]

25. popularity of insane Japanese game shows?

you dumb down the population over a few decades this is the result... people that find 'reality' tv entertaining.

sP

[99Forever]

29. Like there isn't stuff this lowlife...

.. or worse all over the internet.

I have remote control, it does amazing things to make teh stoooopid disappear.

[Fla_Democrat]

30. Isn't that Steve-O?

I thought he was a big time PETA supporter.. hard to imagine him being ok with dumping snakes in "ice water".

[sad-cafe]

31. some people will do anything for money.

They have no self-respect.