Obviously, because of my job, I have to watch a lot of TV. A lot means that it's on basically all day in my office. Daytime Television really, really sucks. Most of the time, I can get away with tuning to one of the movie channels, or the SciFi channel, which at least then doesn't completely suck. But then sometimes, like yesterday, I have some bug where I have to tune to a local TV channel.
CBS, ABC, and NBC _really_ broadcast crap during the day.
Network daytime television offers a choice between soaps and talk shows. The talk shows are incredible. Yesterday, I wound up seeing part of 'Dr. Phil'. What's far, far more baffling to me then the question of 'who watches this?' is 'who goes on TV shows like this?' The show yesterday was all about married or engaged couples where one person or another had suddenly decided s/he didn't want children, to the astonishment and horror of the other party.
At least with radio TV, there's the hope of anonymity. But on national TV, there you are, discussing the deepest problems of your marriage. Could anything be more humiliating?
Of course, that's probably one of the more respectable talk shows you could find. Shows like Jerry Springer or Jenny Jones are a thousand times worse, yet people go on that, too. Witness the infamous Jenny Jones episode on 'secret crushes' where a guest was surprised to learn that the person who had a secret crush on him was, in fact, a man. It's the Jenny Jones show -- who did he expect, Pamela Anderson? Give me a break. These people are retarded. In that case, especially retarded, as the guest in question went on to kill the person with the crush on him -- claiming that he was, you guessed it, "publicly humiliated". Duh. That was the point, idiot.
So -- who's stupid enough to go on these shows?