But, of course, there is money to be made, so Ten may simply shirk its community responsibility and tell parents and concerned viewers to effectively drop dead as it laughs all the way to the bank.
Cultural decline
It is interesting that up until quite recently voyeurism was considered to be a sickness. Indeed, every textbook on abnormal psychology listed voyeurism as a classic case of an unbalanced mind. Now it seems to be an art form. We now call it entertainment. Peeping toms used to be arrested for what they did (watching strangers undress, take showers and so on). In my estimation, the Ten Network gets big money for encouraging us all to be voyeurs.
This is a sign of a culture that has lost the plot. If the only way we can now get our kicks is to watch a bunch of young people making spectacles of themselves - and worse - then Australia is in a bad way.
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It is time Ten admits that BB is a monumental catastrophe and has no place on public airwaves. I won’t hold my breath however, to see this happen.
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