Network Television

Why you annoy me:

• Network television encourages mediocrity.  I’m sure everyone else has noticed how bad it is.  People go ape shit when one good show comes out on network TV, example that springs to mind is Desperate Housewives.  ABC’s programming was so horrendously bad that when they got one decent show people couldn’t jerk off over it fast enough.
• Network news is worthless.  Thanks to 24 hour news stations 6pm nightly news is an anachronism.
• Networks are afraid of anything that might be in the least bit controversial, and thus, thought provoking.
• Good cable stations give people like Dave Chapelle a show.  Bad networks give George Lopez a show.  That right there is pretty indicative of why network programming sucks.
• Only network sports people would pay millions of dollars to hear John Madden praddle incessantly about a 6 legged turkey.
• You honestly care what people in middle America think.  News flash: if you live in a land locked state, you don’t matter.
• Your asinine game shows keep Pat Sajak gainfully employed.
• Local news is probably the worst thing ever.

 Possible mitigating factors:

• Better than MTV.
• Free.
• Whenever you gear a show towards a minority group it’s so insultingly bad that it somehow seems funny.
• Conan O’Brien makes up for a lot of the bad stuff.