You are what you watch?

[Pinball1970]

A comment was made a while ago with respect to a series I watch regularly, it suggested a conversation leaning. The series is American and I am British and there was some fun back and forth.
In terms of what one reads or favoured News feeds, politics, ideology, ethics can be gleaned.
What about sit coms? Films? Drama series?

If you are knowledgeable in sociology, social anthropology, TV Film and Drama studies and or psychology then you have edge and can an academic/study slant to it.

Sociology and politics is not really my thing BUT "Blue Bloods" is and that is a favourite of right wing Republicans.

Any examples you can give? Things that you watch that pigeon hole you? Things that are completely neutral?

 

[C C]

Entertainment-wise, we've watched much of everything over the past 25 years that is either highly rated or above 60%, and a few that aren't. That excludes the majority of sitcoms, though, and the deluge of police procedural dramas and special investigator team shows that broadcast networks wallow in. (HBO's "White Lotus" may be the only dark comedy I've started watching past seasons of in quite a while, though there's surely two or three others that just aren't popping to mind.)

News-wise, I don't regularly sample either the mainstream or Fox News and MSNBC, apart from when there's a breaking news event or a video covering something I'm posting about. DW, NHK, and BBC world editions are occasional exceptions since the detached or exo-American POV arguably yields some degree of objectivity, and there is coverage of other global affairs (i.e., less monomaniacal fixation with everything revolving around Trump).

In terms of politics, I go straight to the various camps themselves, rather than trudge the second-hand filtering (though I primarily read rather than watch). I visit socialist/Marxist sites, conservative and right-wing sites, and the progressive capitalist slant "just is" the establishment or mainstream media (going to encounter that particular narrative without having to exert any conscious effort). That way, whichever one of the cognitive biases it is that takes over the world, I know the in-house shop talk, concepts, posturing affectations, and interpreting presuppositions of each -- in terms of navigating my through their empire.

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

Through the years my taste in books and videos has changed. Started with mostly science fiction in teens and twenties. Then, paranormal, adventure, and thrillers. Finally I ended up with mysteries as my favorites.

 

[Pinball1970]

Through the years my taste in books and videos has changed. Started with mostly science fiction in teens and twenties. Then, paranormal, adventure, and thrillers. Finally I ended up with mysteries as my favorites.

I think age for me has been the biggest factor regarding taste.

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

Actually all you perceive with normal and extra normal senses and even say, think, and do are stored in your brain and are part of you for this lifetime.