it's depressing how my mother and my middle sister often has in-depth discussions of the latest news on pinoy big brother. for one thing, they both watch the program anyways, so most of their discussion is just repeating information that's already known to both of them. (the tendency to be redundant and to point out the obvious seem to be family traits we acquired from our mother.)
secondly, on those instances where my mother would relay new information my sister has yet to know, i can't help but be disgusted of the fact that they are deeply engrossed discussing other people's lives. it's like spying on the neighbors and talking about what their lives had been like that day.
that could explain the success of pinoy big brother: it feeds on the filipinos' want for gossip. again, there's also the perverse genius of abs-cbn. not only has that multimedia company been able to find profitable ways of dumbing down the filipino audience, it has also found ways of latching unto common filipino vices and amping them into celebrated national phenomenon.
from grade school to high school, filipino students take values education among their school subjects. they are taught "morals" and "good values" -- hopefully, to make them "better" citizens. those same kids, after school, will be watching these programs in local television. "values education" is both hypocritical and pointless, but it would be unthinkable to have the subject removed from current school curriculum.
(this is what being stuck in the house does to me.)
2 comments:
the success of Pinoy Big Brother is because the masses don't have access to cable tv and the internet..so they have no alternatives....IMHO though....
we both have cable tv and internet connection in our house, and i don't think our household is something of an exception. the reason many households subscribe to cable tv is not so they'll have more choices of programs, but so they'll have better tv signal.
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