ELECT TELEVISION CHARACTERS?
Television may have helped to elect Donald Trump as President. It also may have helped to elect Ronald Reagan. I do not mean televised appearances (though they do not hurt), nor news formats, but actual television : real, recurrent, weekly programs.
Television programming, I have read, seriously and adversely impacts the social psychology of its viewers. Prison inmates have been known to beat, even to kill each other over what program will be watched on which night; and woe on whomever changes the tv 📺 channel, lacking etiquette or failing to observe prison protocols .
In the 1950s and 60s some boys are said to have tied towels around their necks, in imitation of the television program "Superman" and leaped out of household windows to their deaths or grievous injuries.
Maybe this televised programming theory is totally wrong, relative to the mass psychological impact of "Celebrity Apprentice," and "Death Valley Days," as having subtly boosted Donald Trump's and Ronald Reagan's recent electability.
If so, this thought was induced by my response to an inquiry about a hypothetical I posted on Facebook, in which Trayvon Martin's acquitted killer, Florida's George Zimmerman, becomes a television celebrity and later becomes a candidate for U. S. President! What would happen? Would he win as Trump or Reagan?
Hopefully his result will not be the next Trump/Reagan President-Elect reprise, that is an alleged surprise !
Saturday, November 12, 2016
ELECT TELEVISION CHARACTERS?
ELECT TELEVISION CHARACTERS?
Television may have helped to elect Donald Trump as President. It also may have helped to elect Ronald Reagan. I do not mean televised appearances (though they do not hurt), nor news formats, but actual television : real, recurrent, weekly programs.
Television programming, I have read, seriously and adversely impacts the social psychology of its viewers. Prison inmates have been known to beat, even to kill each other over what program will be watched on which night; and woe on whomever changes the tv 📺 channel, lacking etiquette or failing to observe prison protocols .
In the 1950s and 60s some boys are said to have tied towels around their necks, in imitation of the television program "Superman" and leaped out of household windows to their deaths or grievous injuries.
Maybe this televised programming theory is totally wrong, relative to the mass psychological impact of "Celebrity Apprentice," and "Death Valley Days," as having subtly boosted Donald Trump's and Ronald Reagan's recent electability.
If so, this thought was induced by my response to an inquiry about a hypothetical I posted on Facebook, in which Trayvon Martin's acquitted killer, Florida's George Zimmerman, becomes a television celebrity and later becomes a candidate for U. S. President! What would happen? Would he win as Trump or Reagan?
Hopefully his result will not be the next Trump/Reagan President-Elect reprise, that is an alleged surprise !