Slipping Standards, Rotting Minds

Just one quick observation today. A recent survey for channel 4 found that during last year the show 'Celebrity Love Island' accounted for three quarters (yup, thats right, 75%) of ITV's factual programming. Unbelivable as that may sound, such is the slippage of standards on terrestrial TV, that a show featuring a bunch of over hyped pituary retards trying desperately to ignore their hang-ups and phobias long enough to manage to fuck one another accounted for 75% of ITVs contractually obligated "factual programming". Begging the question how such a piss-poor excuse for a TV show gets to be classified as 'factual'. Unless of course the factual content is contained in the fact that this show clearly and demonstratably highlights how facile and unquestioning the population of this country now is. We will accept anything shoved our way, we will be distracted by it, and we will swallow it hook line and sinker. So, in a year when our government was waging an illegal war in Iraq, occupying Afghanistan, supporting US war crimes in Guantanamo, and so on, ITV managed to fob the entire population of the UK off with a show where a bunch of emotionally crippled attention seekers lie around on a beach moaning about how hard their lives are for a month. Factual programming?? I don't think so.