Chapter 19 TV that promotes low IQ with 'jokes' and 'quiz contests'

After the authoritative newspaper came television. No matter how networked and informationized the society is, the powerful influence of television as a publicity medium is beyond doubt.But with less foresight than newspapers, all tv shows are just for ratings, so I guess the audience isn't as big as it used to be. Needless to say, current TV programs do not arouse people's sense of crisis. The Koizumi cabinet's high approval rating is due to the "political reporting show", and the recent proliferation of TV programs such as "jokes" and "quiz contests", TV has become a booster for low IQ.

The current TV shows, no matter which channel you watch, are performed by comedians, and some politicians are even invited to discuss with comedians who pretend to be prime ministers, which is extremely vulgar.I don't know how many times this is the craze for jokes. Anyway, it is said that it started in 2003, and it is impossible to know when it will end.In this way, the craze for jokes and the Koizumi regime that advocated "one-sentence politics" were almost the product of the same period, so it can be said that the IQ of the Japanese began to decline sharply during Koizumi's administration.

Recently, the low IQ of TV shows has become even more serious. Those idiot actors have extraordinary popularity, and there is a tendency to set off a wave of idiots. Fueling this trend are those quiz shows.In these programs, if the actors always give the correct answers in a serious manner, it will not whet the appetite of the audience, and there will be no ratings, so they deliberately get the answers wrong. Increase ratings. One thing people have to realize is that this kind of childish show purely for the purpose of being funny is definitely not a quiz. After program adjustments in 2008, the number of quiz programs on TV increased substantially.

According to statistics, 7 new programs like this have been added, so far there are 28 programs in total, that is to say, 4 programs like this are broadcast every day. However, the people involved in these shows are not dumb. Like newspapers, TV stations only invite students from some well-known universities to participate in the program, and the deviation value of these students' answers is very high.Because of this, when these people are on these stupid shows, they can cater to the curiosity of the public and increase the ratings.The craze pursued by agents and producers is tantamount to implementing a policy of obscuring the people.

Now they even think that it is possible to determine the IQ of the audience at will, so as to make a show.We can speculate that in the future, when the ratings of such programs increase, it means that the collective IQ of the Japanese will continue to decline. If this trend continues, the audience will no longer feel that ignorance is shameful.Just imagine, what if this situation affects our next generation? "Even if I know, no one will praise me, so it's better not to know anything." If all children thought like this... what a horrible world it would be!