Do the media and the government know something we dont?

[andyBruce]

I've noticed a change in the types of tv programmes shown over the last few years.

There has been a massive shift from DIY, home makeover and property ladder style programmes to home cooking, self sufficiency promoting and animal rearing type programmes.

Is the government acutely aware that the country is sliding into a massive depression, and therefore encouraging us to be aware of a more self sufficient lifestlye to better help ourselves when the time comes?

Or is it just coincidence?

 

[Robbi]

purely a fad i reckon, it'll be boat building and space travel next

 

[BPR_MiK]

Or has it always been the same but you notice what you are "into" at the time ??

It`s like when you buy a certain make of car you suddenly notice there are LOADS of them on the road.

 

[Barn Owl]

I think the media are following the fads but hey, I like a good conspiracy theory.

To be honest I really don't think that conspiracy theories can hold their water if there are more than three people involved.

 

[Dougster]

Didn't Richard and Felicity do something similar a few years back?

 

[demographic]

Or is it that the media is following the ratings.

 

[andyBruce]

I'm not even sure who Richard and Felicity are!!!

Sorry!

 

[Robbi]

I'm not even sure who Richard and Felicity are!!!

Sorry!

LOL ! you must have lived a good life mate

 

[Bushwhacker]

I don't own a tv so I couldn't possibly know. I do notice people not previously interested that are taking an interest in what I get up to now though.

 

[johnboy]

I wouldn't get out the tin foil hat just yet....We have a heap of those cooking, lifestyle, self sufficency shows on over here as well... Hang on they are all British...Right crack out the Alcan.....

 

[Everything Mac]

LOL ! you must have lived a good life mate

ha ha ha.


The Good Life:

[video=youtube;oyZ--z8RpOI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyZ--z8RpOI[/video]

 

[Pandabean]

I dont watch daytime TV so I would have no idea what was changing. But there are still crap reality tv shows and terrible adverts that you have to escape from the room to avoid or channel hop.