Peoples views on todays television

Television has changed since it was first conceived.  Back int he beginning it was more stories of people and other things.  Today's society is about reality TV and how people can change themselves.  This is not right because people are very easily manipulative.  People are changing faster to make themselves more like the norm.  I was watching TV last week and I saw more weight loss commercials then actual television.  This should not be allowed on television.  We use television as a source of entertainment, not a critique on ourselves.  If this was happening back when television was first conceived, it would be a dead technology.  People have been become too easily manipulated and that is because we have become soft from television and it made us look at ourselves as outside the norm.  No one is outside the norm, the people who have a 0 inch waist and no depth in their cheeks, they are outside the norm because they decided to follow the crowd.