Michael Starr gives TLC a Tender Loving CHOP

The state of TV, all over the world, is SHIT. Thanks to cable, piracy, and streaming, obscure channels and their low-budget "reality" crap can be watched everywhere.

Naturally each country will prefer it's own stinky, sordid talk show where over-breeding monsters air their dirty laundry. Every country has it's own delusional "Got Talent" show, which pays royalties to Sir Slimy Towel. Every country has its awful variant on "Big Brother House" etc.

BUT...some horrible people do become Internationally known. The whole fucking WORLD seems to be "Keeping up with the Kardashians."

One of the worst, lowest cable channels is TLC, which used to stand for "The Learning Channel." They soon discovered they could snag more viewers with lowbrow stuff...shows about obese people, shows about over-populating swine like the Duggars, and hideous trailer trash monsters like fat Honey Boo Boo.

Nice to see that the Duggars' show got taken down due to a pedophilia scandal, and horrible Honey Boo Boo's disgusting mama helped torpedo that program. You don't expect insane families to abide a "morality clause" in the contract. Since everyone gets away with "revenge porn" websites or being Pirate Bay or hailed a hero and returning after a sports steroid scandal, "reality" people just assume any selfish stupid thing they do will be forgiven.

Columnist Michael Starr gave the slam to TLC, in just slightly less angry rhetoric than you'd find on THIS blog:

My question...where was this guy BEFORE the fall? Way too often, the reputable newspapers don't want to interfere with getting ad money from these bad cable networks, etc.

Even the TV reviewer is told to "go soft" on a bad review or "say nothing at all."

Now that TLC is in disgrace, Starr was able to kick 'em while they were down.

I get it. This is one of those "I told you so" columns. But how about being able to say, "I predicted this...let me quote from my scathing review of this awful show..."

I know it gets monotonous when critics always seem to be panning the garbage people love to slurp up and call "great." Still, it would be nice if everyone from TMZ to the Daily Fail spent more time on derision. Take that photo of Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian's "wardrobe malfunction" and question why she can't dress herself. Don't just show Viley Virus or Justa Beeper being disgusting...SAY so. Instead it's "oh, here's our favorite star being naughty again." DON'T APPROVE.

It's up to the few columnists on each paper who ARE allowed to editorialize TO editorialize. Whether it's Piers Morgan or Michael Starr or Andrea Peyser or Larry King or whoever it is...they should to more than talk after the fact. They should do more than be provocateurs with opinionated idiocy designed solely to be the center of controversy. They should point out civilization's decline and disapprove of it, and say why.

"Honey Boo Boo" should never have been on the air. Or the Kardashians. Or the Duggars. People should feel shame at best, or say "guilty pleasure" in discussing this shit. People should be embarrassed to admit to watching ridiculous TV shows and movies, or liking "Gangnam Style" or considering Sam Smith or Beyonce to be artists.

I was glad to see Starr call attention to how a network is bound to fall, and fail, by pandering to the lowest of the low. But every day, the writers should be spitting at, laughing at, or tweaking the Royals, the Beckhams, the Jenners and the rest of the useless freaks, and shaming everyone from football hooligans to rioters who steal TV sets because a career criminal got killed.

In other words, more writers should be like ME.