For the Love and Hate of Television. Mark O'Brien

I used to spend much more time watching television than I do now.  My life seems to have become busier and busier as I have aged.  The little television I do watch is restricted to the golf channel, UK athletics, and Game of Thrones.  I will admit Game of Thrones can be somewhat time consuming, but it only is on for ten out of the fifty two weeks in a year.  I love Game of Thrones.  I hate most MTV shows.  The idea that most of those reality TV shows are completely unscripted baffles my mind.  I have a very hard time believing that people can be that ridiculous without being prompted somehow.  If a normal person were taken out of there every day lives and put in front of a camera knowing that millions of people were going to watch their every move I doubt they would be CRAZY.

I do believe that television can provide a good form of entertainment.  I have numerous memories from my childhood that involve movies/television shows.  I do not think that it is just a convenient source of advertising, although I do think that was an ingenious  idea to advertise on television.  I do not think it is an insane use of time in most cases.  I do think that it can be all three.