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09/24/2003 Archived Entry: "I want some tea"

Help me. My throat hurts so badly. The more I speak, the more it hurts. I tried gargling with salt, drinking liquids... I don't want to be sick. This is the worst time for it since this is the week where the first tests starts. Eck. And I have to go to my stupid design class later on today. I wish I can drop it but I can't. My whole family has caught the flu virus. I mean, first my two sisters had it, then my mom caught it, then it's my turn. Pretty soon my dad will have it. Ah.. it hurts.

I finally found a topic for my mass media criticism class. It will be about why gay characters are the fad now. I mean, show a gay character on any TV show and the networks think they'll get ratings. It's so very commercialized and it's getting to the point that it's annoying and cliche. A couple of years back, being gay on TV was very controvercial. When Ellen decided to come out on her TV show, everyone was pleased to see that the subject of homosexuality isn't really taboo anymore. Unfortunately, Ellen's show got cancelled but it was still an important issue to explore. I'm pretty sure that back then, Ellen did not focus on ratings (although obviously it is important) when she decided to tell everyone she was gay but now because of the popularity of shows like Will and Grace, every show nowadays has a gay character just to show that yeah, "we have a gay guy on the show and now we think we're funny". All these shows want to be popular. They're using homosexuality now as some "product" because if they use this product, they think they'll get viewers. Do you know what I mean? Homosexuality isn't even an issue anymore. It's sensationalism and they made it a fad to be gay.

About two years ago, with the popularity of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" and "The Weakest Link" every damn network copied each other. There were games shows everywhere that were just like The Weakest Link and Millionaire and it became a fad. Networks give you so much of it, that soon it will be watered down, and it will be gone and a new fad comes along. Homosexuality and those Reality shows are the fads now. But will the networks overdo it and just show you more and more of it, that it will have the same fate as those game shows before them? What will the next "fad" in television now?

When ER, Friends and Ally McBeal were in the height of their popularity EVERYONE copied them too. Those medical, legal, and "friends" type of shows were everywhere... they were fads as well. It's really sad to see homosexuality turn out to be a "fad" like that because the issue is STILL very controvercial and there are so many people with so many different views about it and it's really sad to see how television is overusing that theme to make money and get ratings. It's one of the reasons why I hate TV. They overuse themes. No one is original anymore.

Ok, that's all I have to say about that. The paper has to be a minimum of 15 pages... but since it's such a broad topic to criticize about, I think it will be more than 15 pages for me. If you think about it, if you really care about a topic so much and have such strong feelings for it you have to keep writing and writing.