Televison, A Vast and Terrible Wasteland

Why is it that all the Television I've seen in the past month consists of Police arresting people, Judges judging them and endless array of butchery in the form of forensic examinations, surgeries and psychic vivisection through televised "Reality" Shows. Television is the land of the lost, filled will people who suffer in some way and indicate to us all the pessimist components of life. Time after time I found myself shaking my head at the catalog of death, destruction or misfortune. I'm sure I'm in danger of generalizing, but, whether it's a Judge scowling at some miscreant or cops wrestling some angry drunk to the ground or a plastic surgeon applying acid to an aging starlet face, TV is a exploitative, cheap foray into worst that life has to offer. 24 hour news is both fearsome and pallid, reaching into a kind of abstract kind of angst that there are really bad, people and awful things that we should really be afeard of. And their stabs at entertainment are just the dregs of what they can provide. The scabs of wounds not work picking.