I watched this and had to comment: Lauren Zalaznick: The conscience of television | Video on TED.com www.ted.comTED Talks TV executive Lauren Zalaznick thinks deeply about pop television. Sharing results of a bold study that tracks attitudes against TV ratings over five decades, she makes a case that television reflects who we truly are -- in ways we might not have expected.

Christa-Ann Faith Godsdaughter I was born in 56...I believe the fact that the masses grew up thinking
that someone was taking care of them is a factor in how media reflects who we are. Or gives place for that theory anyway.
Video and DVD gave those who wanted to opt out of TV that ability to do so plays a role. I believe that the silent morality in our nation simply shut off the TV. I do not believe media says who we are it only says what certain ones want us to believe.
Media has given rise to the voice of the squeaky few who wish to blast what gives us structure and security. They seek to destroy all, including police protection and the right to birth or raise children or teach values or morals or even to have a voice. Part of it is just to see if they can, there is power in this you know.
The fact that every generation has been taught by the media and public school system that our parents and their generation are stupid is so sad! The consequence is that we shut off their council. Even after they have gotten out of the "spending age" so they are of no use to the media and they are no longer the "target" of the media, thus having a chance to "see" what is going on and teach or educate the younger generation they are considered old, senile, out of it, etc (my all time most saddening movie that exemplifies this attitude is Fiddler on the Roof, praised by many and yet we cannot see the subtle tactics of the adversary in the show and its endearing ways) and we lose a gift from God in them or seniors and parents of the adult.
I have heard the phrase among those with no conscience for responsibility to their fellow man in the market place, "let's see how much they will tolerate, let's push the umbrella and see how much discomfort they will accept for our gain" The good thing about this is that the voices of the wicked are arising so that we can hear them and can no longer be still, but will we? What will we do as our country and values disintegrate before our eyes? Will we stand and say there is nothing we can do or it is foretold as if somehow that makes our place in it irrelevant??!!!
The choice is ours to act or be acted upon. Today is the day to decide!