If it was Sweeps, the networks didn’t act like it!

A log of my average day of television for Wednesday, February 7th, 2007:

For about a year or two now, I’ve noticed that every time I watch TV, I see something unbelievably life-negating. Far from complaining about rising curseword count or 3/4-naked girlies, I am having a real problem digesting morbid material that we too often take for granted. I like to think of such content as falling under the ‘death instinct’ as opposed to ‘life instinct’ images and concerns, such as beauty, positivity, cooperation, community, dignity, etc. After a especially discordant stretch of seeing things I just don’t want to see, I figured I would keep a short-lived log of the incidences and types of overt death-instinct content I find, mostly consisting of the following: