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Not sure how much "traditional" TV you've watched recently, but they are very not wrong.

• smacktoward 9y ago
  Are you kidding? Television over the last 10-15 years has been in a golden age of scripted drama. There's still a lot of crap on the tube, but there's also more good stuff than there's been at any time in history.
  • T2_t2 9y ago
    Not the "traditional" TV of free-to-air stations. That is all reality shows and pandering to the lowest denominator.
    • smacktoward 9y ago
      Your definition of "traditional" TV is extremely traditional. A majority of US households had subscribed to cable TV as far back as 1990 (see https://www.ncta.com/cables-story https://www.ncta.com/cables-story). Cable penetration has fallen off in recent years as additional options (satellite, phone-company fiber, streaming) have proliferated, but it's been a long, long time since most Americans' universe of TV options were limited to the original "big three" broadcast networks.
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  • rhizome 9y ago
    But knowing that means you're 10-15 years behind the attention spans and tastes that new television (and mass media in general) caters to and is increasingly produced by. It's a, if not the, generational shift.