I enjoy prime time dramas that can present issues revolving around sexuality in an intriguing or even humorous manner--the new NBC show Friday Night Lights is a good example, I think. But as we've all seen, too often sex presented in a purely exploitative light is the last refuge of a desperate TV executive producer.
A case in point is the Today Show--once the indomitable force of morning TV. But recently, ratings have declined. Consequently, we get a pre-show tease this morning promoting the following stories:
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff calls homosexuality 'immoral'
- Presidential candidates with histories of infidelities--can they be elected?
- 'Victim' of a sexual liaison with a (hot, blond, young female) teacher in Colorado on set for an 'exclusive' interview (!)
- New research showing that men's sperm count may decrease with age (!)
This is the same Today Show that will regularly lament ever-earlier sexual experimentation by teens, and the pornographic dangers that loom on the Internet.
Sophocles is generally credited with first writing the words, 'look to thyself'.
Maybe he had just finished watching Matt and Meredith.
diderot
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