There are some important things that must inevitably change in television media.
First, the Neilsen ratings system has to be flushed down the toilet. This has been obvious for quite some time, based simply on the statistical irrelevance of the data it allegedly collects, plus the huge potential corruptibility of that data.
It seems extremely likely that a new system will of necessity be put into place to supplant the dominance of this system of television viewer data collection, which apparently still dominates this multi-billion dollar industry we call television.
Second, in like fashion to the way that unions were created to keep workers from getting completely screwed over by corporate scumbags, new measures will need to be taken to prevent other types of corporate scumbags from making the world a worse place.
As more and more television networks appear to be either purchased or destroyed in the mindless pursuit of the almighty dollar, such as the SciFi Channel (now SyFy) and the Anime channel, sooner or later a new profit structure will have to be created.
Hulu and similar internet services are making it possible to deliver selective television entertainment content via broadband. One positive benefit of this is the minimization of advertising. Another is the evasion of the constant stream of poisonous negativity that is the television news media.
The television news is like a cancer rotting the minds and spirits of television viewers. People's perceptions are perpetually being altered and misled by the pseudo-truths of the news media. The more that people are divorced from this influence in their lives, the less insane and idiotic American culture will appear to the rest of the world.
If there were some way to prevent the Rupert Murdocks of the world from imposing their extremely biased and twisted points of view on the masses, the world would be a better place, but until a solution to this problem is found, it just seems like a good idea to have as little exposure to television news as humanly possible. It is essentially a machine for the regurgitation of memes and lies for the most part, and actively censors or suppresses much of the truth anyway.
What I propose is the creation of new non-profit media corporations to foster creativity and prevent the kind of pandering garbage our culture is slowly sinking farther and farther into.
Fans of television series created by people like Joss Whedon and Bryan Fuller have been repeatedly disappointed by cancellations. In the case of Wonderfalls this happened in only four episodes.
More and more the common media outlets are letting us down. Whether this is a product of bias, greed, or simple incompetence, the reality is that corporate control of the arts has failed, and should be replaced by a new model for creator-controlled content.
We need television networks controlled by alliances of established creative professionals who are committed to making entertainment that is unusual, intelligent, and not merely a vehicle for the sales of products.
We need an MTV that shows music videos, a SciFi Channel that shows science fiction, and more channels that are true to their labeling and refuse to give up their labels in favor of ratings whoring and fad TV. Instead of less categorized entertainment and more generic blah channels showing false reality TV garbage, we need more categorized entertainment. Instead of MTV showing the fake Real World, we need ten MTVs each showing different categories of music. We need SciFi channel, Fantasy channel, Paranormal channel, Baking channel, Soup channel, Cheese channel, etc. etc. etc.
We do not need ten thousand channels with meaningless generic names all showing reruns of Cops or Law and Order.
Television is the most powerful influence on our culture whether we like it or not. If you want to change the culture, don't just change the channel with the remote; really change the channels.
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