It’s been a personal source of perplexity. It hits me hardest when I watch NFL football. It distracts me from the game. Makes me think about grooming and culture and shampoo and colorful beads when I should be thinking about touchdowns, onside kicks, run-pass options and cheerleaders. I don’t know enough about dreadlocks!
Ban the bottom-of-the-TV-screen sports ticker. Everyone has a smartphone, they can get scores anytime they want, they get alerts every minute about the teams and players they care about, so enough already with the endless scroll that clutters up every freakin’ sports broadcast. ESPN used to only show scores of other games twice an hour and that was okay but now it’s a non-stop distraction that simply disrupts the game for people with razor-thin attention spans like me. I also believe that the non-stop score/news ticker is an insidious communist mind game that can hypnotize some and convince others that world-altering news is going to scroll by at any second. The sports ticker is causing mental instability and the general breakdown of society.
This is all about a very simple concept (though few people seem to get it): if the government is allowed to trample the civil rights of one of us they are taking the civil liberties from all of us.