Reply #24: I don't think it's elitist [View All]

[hippywife]

to watch only quality programming. We don't have cable because we don't want to pay for the garbage that it delivers and we don't watch mainstream network TV because it also delivers garbage. I don't like to watch people make fools out of themselves and/or be ridiculed by mean people. Even if it is all fake, it encourages people to say mean things to each other. So if there's something good on PBS, then the TV is on, if not then not.

So if wanting to learn something new, or travel to a location I'll never be able to afford to see in real life and know what the plights and pleasures are in the cultures of the people we share the world with is elitists, then the dumbing down of the American public with garbage is totally working.