So the husband's position of authority in the home (which feminists call the "acceptability of domestic violence"), the number of children born, the desire to have male progeny (which is not a bad thing in itself), and the lower birth rate are all disrupted by propaganda:

This paper explores the effect of the introduction of cable television on women’s status in rural India. Using a three-year, individual-level panel dataset, we find that the introduction of cable television is associated with significant decreases in the reported acceptability of domestic violence towards women and son preference, as well as increases in women’s autonomy and decreases in fertility. We also find suggestive evidence that exposure to cable increases school enrollment for younger children, perhaps through increased participation of women in household decision-making. We argue that the results are not driven by pre-existing differential trends.

. . .

Beyond providing entertainment, television vastly increases both the availability of
information about the outside world and exposure to other ways of life. This is especially true for
remote, rural villages, where several ethnographic and anthropological studies have suggested that
television is the primary channel through which households get information about life outside their
village (Mankekar 1993, 1998; Fernandes 2000; Johnson 2001; Scrase 2002). Most popular cable
programming features urban settings where lifestyles differ in prominent and salient ways from those
in rural areas. For example, many characters on popular soap operas have more education, marry
later and have smaller families, all things rarely found in rural areas; and many female characters
work outside the home, sometimes as professionals, running businesses or in other positions of
authority.

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/emily.oster/papers/tvwomen.pdf

Traditionalism under the influence of cable television is the kind you find on FE and SD.

It isn't.

It is probably fair to say that electronic media have had a major role in depopulating the countryside:

The first thing that Rogers points out, and has been pointing out for quite some time, is that the world is short-handed when it comes to farmers. “The average age of farmers in America is 58 years old. In Japan, the average age is 66. In Australia, it’s 58. Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers commit ѕυιcιdє every year. It’s a disastrous business. In the U.K., the highest rate of ѕυιcιdє is in agriculture. It’s been a horrible business for 30 years. Prices have to go up – have go to up a lot – or we’re not going to have any food at any price” Rogers stated earlier in 2012.

http://commodityhq.com/2012/jim-rogers-the-agriculture-industry-is-doomed/

The parasitism of the financial class that pushes down prices and squeezes honest laborers is the major economic reason for this, but it would not surprise me if another major reason is that it is increasingly difficult to maintain traditional family life as a farmer because of the bad influence of the TV.

America (or other lands) couldn't have been settled and populated under feminism.  It wouldn't have been possible.

No one can set their women in children in front of a Jєωιѕн controlled hypnosis/indoctrination (Cable TV) device and expect them to maintain decent values.

Even if they hold fast to what they are taught (which is not the most likely outcome) they will be influenced in ways they themselves cannot understand.  Subconsciously they will be profoundly different than what they would otherwise be.

Just as you can't send them to the anti-Christian university and expect them not to conform to a large degree to what they are taught there, not only by their professors, but by their peers raised on filthy TV.

My family has cable television. We have two TVs. I know it is brainwashing my parents. I don't ever watch regular TV shows, but i do sometimes watch sports. I hope that doesn't harm me.

How can you stand the commercials?

One thing I noticed about TV, after an extended absence, was that I no longer had the patience for it, and that the commercials were simply intolerable.

This is typical pro-TV article gloating over the power of the media controllers to manipulate family life and the values of children and young people:

19 October 2004 - FEATURE

Five years of cable television

In June 1999 Bhutan switched on the TV, the last country in the world to do so. Today, most Bhutanese are riding the signals - excited, exhilarated, confused, and often depressed.

And it is rapidly changing Bhutanese society, according to a media impact study done in 2003. To begin with, the study conducted by a private Bhutanese consultancy firm, Mediacom Consultancy, states that television was introduced in Bhutan with minimal preparation. Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) television was still in its infancy when cable or satellite television was let in with a digital roar three months after BBS TV went on air. BBS TV, after five years of its launch, is making moves to expand coverage beyond Thimphu and improve content.

What resulted was a wave of channels with indiscriminate foreign content, so Bhutanese youth became the vulnerable target of global culture.

"With the introduction of global television Bhutanese found themselves with a choice of up to 45 channels," says Siok Sian Pek, who led the 2003 media impact study. "This chaotic and unregulated introduction of cable TV is not unlike the experience in South Asia and other developing countries but the impact will be far greater in Bhutan, a small and vulnerable society with limited resources and difficult terrain."

The study found out that impact was already perceptible in all sections of the society, while it was strongest in the urban segment.

The study of a Kuenselonline poll in 2000 and 2003 showed that TV had drastically changed a third of the respondents' lives. About 31.5 percent of the respondents to the poll said that their life style had completely changed after the introduction of cable TV, up from 2000 poll figure of 22.16 percent.

Families were also experiencing internal tensions because of differing interests which led to some families installing more than one TV set so that family members could watch the programmes of their choice. More and more families were spending less time together with men often complaining that their wives were so hooked on Indian serials that they started neglecting their household chores.

The report asserts that TV was undeniably influencing the values of urban population "importing influences from the outside world". "TV has changed social behaviour in the sense that public interaction - holding hands, kissing - has become more acceptable," the report states. "People claim TV has broadened the minds and attitudes of society."

Most popular channels in Bhutanese homes were from Rupert Murdoch's Star network like the Star TV, Zee TV and Sony TV packages broadcast from India. This resulted in Bhutanese viewers becoming more familiar with the lives of middle class society in India. Global statistics shows that the Star network reaches more than 300 million people across Asia and the Middle East.

Teachers in urban schools complained that students watched TV late into the night (another informal survey found out that Bhutanese children watched 12 hours of TV on average per week) and were "less focused in class, obsessed with TV characters and picking up language and mannerisms from Hindi and western films". "Programmes like World Wrestling Entertainment has spawned a small cult in Bhutanese children who developed new heroes like The Rock, Stone Cold, Gold Berg, and Brock Lesnar. Several schools claim that they have advised parents to restrict children from viewing WWE," the report says.

A headmistress from one of the Bumthang schools related to the study team an incident when one of the students suffered a broken hand when his friend "
threw him WWE-style".

Bhutanese languages have also become the victim of foreign media. The youth were learning more Hindi and English. Dzongkha was being increasingly sidelined with more youth believing that speaking English commanded more self-esteem and gave them an air of superiority. The switch to foreign languages was most observable during parties.

"When we meet we want to speak English because we have become ashamed of speaking Dzongkha," one youth interviewed by the study group confided. "We have a concept that those who don't speak English are conservative, old fashioned and orthodox people. Even among ourselves we are not very comfortable speaking total Dzongkha."

The study found varying views on the cultural influence of TV on Bhutanese society. While some sections voiced their concern that the Bhutanese society was leaning more towards western culture by the day, there were other optimistic segments that said that despite the deluge of foreign cultural products, Bhutanese would maintain their own culture. The cultural influence, however, was found to be already in. For example, more youth including sections of adults were increasingly donning western outfits and more people were getting fashion ideas from TV.

The study particularly found out that Thimphu youth were greatly influenced by what they claimed "modern" culture. They found western life styles and music appealing.

Advertisements mattered more to the Bhutanese today than they did five years ago. The cultural power of marketing and advertising today was immensely challenging the indigenous culture.

Parents, whom the study team talked to, had contrasting opinions as well.
Most believed that TV had positive influences on children. It boosted their confidence, gave exposure, and helped them become better informed. Parents also promised their children more time with TV if they did well in examinations. About
56 percent of the parents who responded to the study said they did not restrict children's choices compared to 44 percent who responded otherwise. While 50 percent believed TV helped their children learn, 40 percent thought it was more entertainment. Some parents believed TV kept their children occupied.

One upbeat Thimphu parent, Phuntsho Dorji, agrees that TV is making Bhutan a more consumerist society. He says that the biggest positive impact TV made was on sports. "Bhutanese people also have more access to information than ever before which I think is a good thing," he says. "Hindi serials are popular with women because they are based on strong family values no matter how bad the programme may be to some of us. Housewives do adjust evening dinner not to miss their favourite serial."

Another Thimphu civil servant adds that as an oral based society Bhutanese are more tuned to watching TV where "people just listen instead of active participation in the programme by having to read or write". "My son and his cousin'
s heroes are Batman, Spiderman and the like. They were my childhood heroes too because I read about them in comics," he says.

There are others, however, who strongly feel that TV is diluting the in built Bhutanese society that has always prided itself on its rich culture and tradition. "There has been an unprecedented influx of foreign elements in such a short time," says Ugyen Tshering, a civil servant. "But the more disturbing thing is that we have been readily assimilating these western low cultural products, without even questioning them. There is danger in such a terrifying hunger.
"

Bhutan observers from abroad also see TV as assailing the society faster than ever before. Most say youth have been the most vulnerable target. People like Dr. David Walsh, the president of the National Institute on Media and Family in Minneapolis, USA, warn that Bhutanese should work with an increased sense of urgency to protect children from the "violence and smut" of media. "Now that Bhutan has entered the electronic age, it needs to face the challenges this new age presents," he says. "The clash between 'TV values' and community values occurs everywhere television is available. Allowing your children to watch whatever they want whenever they want to watch it is like allowing a total stranger into your home. No sane parent would ever do that. The key is to set guidelines about how much and what can be watched."

Western media scholars say that the rapid growth of global music and movies with universal appeal for the young has led to a new generation and culture gap. The young population of the world today, the scholars say, have more in common with each other than with their older parents, teachers and relatives. As the media report shows more and more young people and adolescents in Bhutan dress and behave in a manner often resented by the older generation. "The real issue is that modernisation can be seen as a contradiction to culture and tradition," says Siok Sian Pek. "The underlying risk here is that if tradition is seen as opposing modernisation, the youth can reject tradition."

Several parents Kuensel talked to share this fear of impending "underlying risk". This rejection looks imminent some parents say adding that what worries them most is their children suddenly "acting strange, becoming strange" which they interpret as "slow sidelining of Bhutanese values, attitudes and aspirations by the young".

Is Bhutan then on the way to what has been often referred to as "cultural imperialism"? "The fear of negative influences from foreign media content spurred by cultural concerns is the key element of cultural imperialism," says professor Stig Arne Norhstedt of Orebro University, Sweden, who has authored numerous books on global media studies. "The presence of strong foreign broadcast media in a country like Bhutan and people's willingness to internalise the imported foreign content will certainly weaken the development of the indigenous media like the BBS TV. This is bound to have a severe cultural influence in the long run."

Bhutan certainly lacks the expertise and resources to establish a vibrant and competent domestic communication system that can authentically reflect its history, needs, concerns, values, and culture. The dominance of foreign channels in Bhutanese households proves that it is far cheaper for the service providers to import foreign TV products than to domestically produce them.

Bhutan escaped the mercantile colonialism of 1700 to 1950 when powerful industrialised nations colonised countries around the world for cheap raw materials and labour. Bhutan, however, has undeniably become a helpless victim of media colonialism. And media colonialism, experts warn, could have worse effects than the mercantile colonialism.

In a 2002 university radio programme, Bhutan Wired, the professor and dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, Orville Schell, says that if there is equilibrium that need to be maintained in a good life, Bhutan is one of the last places that has a chance to engineer that equilibrium in an intelligent way. But for the present Professor Schell certainly seems as confused as most Bhutanese when he says, "I am not sure, you know, all of these cable channels being lofted over the mountains and into these once-sylvan, quiet, peaceful valleys is the way to effect it."

Imagine being responsible for the corruption of so many millions of souls. I feel bad for these monsters.

Nice to be back on CI, and nice to see Tele started this thread. :)

Yes, television corrupts people's minds. If the tv show you're watching isn't filth, the commercials are.