Sub TV
Television is the most powerful medium known for delivering information to the widest audience possible. Is it being used sensibly, or is there some abuse of its power of mass persuasion and extensive reach?
Welcome to Sub TV and a philosophical way of looking at that most powerful of media that has infiltrated almost every home in Western society and has an enormous presence around the world. We take a close look at the tactics used by program controllers to get us to watch certain shows in preference to others and how shows can be engineered to become more popular with viewers simply by the kind of promotion they get.
Television in Our Lives
There is little doubt that television has a great influence on most people's lives to a greater or lesser extent depending upon how much or how little they are exposed to this medium. While people who work long hours rarely have much spare time for watching more than an hour or so of television each evening, others are capable of watching eight hours of more each day. It doesn't seem to matter what some people watch, either. It can be programs on national stations or local TV stations and often even the quality of those programs is of little matter to many viewers.
Those that watch great amounts of television tend to have their whole lives center around what they watch in preference to real life. Many people are addicted to certain TV programs. Those that watch a predominance of education programs may believe they are feeding their minds with useful information, but the sad fact is that many so-called educational programs are rarely very informative and serve only to hook viewers into watching the associated commercials that are attached to every program on TV (except in the case of those rare commercial-free stations).
You could go so far as to say that ALL television programs exist purely to provide packing for the commercials that accompany them. Or is more like the programs that accompany the advertisements?
These and other searching questions will be raised at this website and discussed in our collection of associated articles on a variety of subjects concerning television as a whole.