To the editor: As an older guy who has himself been deemed challenged, I wish to offer my reading neighbors a Clardy test. At a time in my lengthy life where I find more opportunity to watch TV, I am struggling to discover a reason why somebody would.
To my neighbors, try this simple experiment. Turn your TV on and sit down in front of it. If you have your cell phone, put it down. If you hold a newspaper, discard it. If you are plucking a chicken, lay it aside. I would like to believe that, for once in your life, you will actually consume the drivel that permeates the airways.
Start off with a few of our “news” programs. Listen to one or two intently. Then go to the nearest mirror and repeat any item of value that you just absorbed. Try this experiment several times. If you have been unable to glean any information of value, please explain to yourself why any somewhat reasonable adult would waste any part of their life watching that drivel.
Also, while you are paying attention, note the coverage given a public disaster. You will recognize the network rush to report first slowly replaced by the network desire to report facts. This requires that you pay attention. Secondly, it is obvious that the wave of illegal immigrants who risk their lives daily to enter the U.S. do not watch our network news.
If they did so, they would have to admit what a terribly unfair, racist cesspool of a country we are described as daily. If there is a reader who disagrees, perhaps they will reveal the last positive program, aside from the July 4th celebration, that they personally viewed.
It is my opinion that these vicious, anti-American networks have taken over America. Along that line, I will close with this idea. I find it peculiar that on any given day, I can access numerous programs that build their content on degrading my country. On one program, they include profanity in their racially unfair description of America. This would be “The Young Turks.”
Obviously, the name should have included “Turkeys.” That brings up another question for someone as slow as I. Why does censorship not work equally? Could be the subject matter and/or the control of the networks?
Bobby Clardy
Toccoa