This was written by Sony for the back of a TV Guide a long time ago. A friend of mine has a picture of the original article taped to a television on the back of his door. It is a riot. The things people decide to put in print. lol...
TV IS GOOD
For years the pundits, moralists and self rightious, self appointed preservers of our culture have told us that television is bad. They've stood high on their soapbox and looked condescendingly on our innocuous pleasure. They've sought to wean us from our harmless habit by derisively referring to television as the Boob Tube or the Idiot Box.
Well, television is not the evil destroyer of all that is right in this world. In fact, we say this with all the deistain we can muster for the elitists who purport otherwise - TV IS GOOD.
TV binds us together. It makes us laugh. It makes us cry. Why in the span of ten years, TV brought us the downfall of an American president, one giant step for mankind and the introduction of Farrah Fawcett as one of "Charlies Angels". Can any other medium match TV for its immediacy, it's impact, its capacity to entertain? Who among us hasn't spent and entire weekend on the couch, bathed in the cool glow of a Sony Trinitron, only to return to work recuperated and compleatly refreshed? And who would dispute that the greatest advancement in aviation over the last ten years was the decisicion to air sitcoms during the in-flight service?
Why then should we cower behind our remote controls? Let us rejoice in our fully adjustable, leather-upholstered recliners. Let us celebrate our cerebral-free non-activity. Let us climb the highest figurative mountiantop and proclaim, with all the vigor and shrillness that made Roseanne a household name, that TV is good.
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There are SO many comments I wanted to post as I was typing that out that all I could do was laugh... over and over, outloud and hard.... omg.
Love Val
A link to my version, along with all of the snide things I was thinking...
Edit to fix posting errors and typos due to laughter while typing, because OMG there were a lot of them.
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