Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: Ron Hitler Barrassi Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Is it just me... Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:46:09 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <3784l9F565ae3U2@individual.net> <420F47BC.ABBE8D93@yahoo.co.jp> <1rc9b4yw1ymyz$.l5fs7xp1d5xl.dlg@40tude.net> <63fum0nflb6g$.1iq6ayyz6xqhe.dlg@40tude.net> <4210A33D.E98CA565@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-000-091.engineering.gol.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1108439169 26473 203.216.0.91 (15 Feb 2005 03:46:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:46:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 X-Accept-Language: en, ja In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:25127 Danny Wilde wrote: > > "Eric Takabayashi" wrote in message > news:4210A33D.E98CA565@yahoo.co.jp... > >> ... ask why people would argue against >> the existence of stupidity in Japanese programming. > > > Actually I don't understand what people mean when they say a TV > programme is "stupid" or talk about "the existence of stupidity in > Japanese programming". Indiscriminate application of the word "stupid" > to Japanese television shows a limited articulacy and perhaps indicates > much more about the intellectual level of the people applying it than > the programmes they are commenting on. > > Do the people who label TV programmes as "stupid" mean the contents are > trivial, or banal, or that only a limited amount of intellectual effort > is required to understand them? Or do they mean that the people who make > the programme are incompetent, or inadequate? Do they mean that the > programme is boring? Do they mean that the TV programmes don't deal with > any serious issues, that they're too lightweight? Do they mean that the > programme is factually incorrect? Do they mean that watching the > programme is a waste of time, because the programme is so lacking in > entertainment? Do they mean that the performers on Japanese TV are > stupid? If so, who is stupid and why? Do they mean that the programmes > are fake? Which programmes, and why do they believe this? Or do they > mean the programmes are made with a different cultural perspective, or a > different sense of humour, than their own, and thus are "stupid"? Do > they find the programmes repetitive, uninspired, formulaic? > > Let's all try to say something more articulate than "Japanese TV is > stupid", in case we who rashly label the entire output of Japanese TV as > such, end up looking far more stupid than the thing we're seeking to > criticise. > > Bye for now. > You must be lonely. Can you get a dog?