Bad TV: Bush’s fault too?

To read Mary McNamara’s article [“Watch TV Grow Up? Yes, We Can,” Nov. 30] touting the new “yes, we can” philosophy for TV programming, one would think that the infantile TV writers and producers who have blessed us adults with nonthinking shows for the last eight years secretly voted for George Bush, and that is why we have been subjected to such drivel -- it’s all Bush’s fault.

Now that Obama has been elected, she claims, we can get back to real programming for real adults. Imagine all those TV people secretly voting for Bush -- what a hoot!

Margo Sorenson

La Quinta

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It certainly is amusing to read an article about TV growing up in the “Age of Obama” that is written with the tone of slavish devotion and worship common to teenage girls. It does make one wonder if there is any adult supervision at the Los Angeles Times.

Kip Dellinger

Brentwood

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You got the current state of TV exactly right, but it may be overly optimistic to think that the Obamas’ influence will offer relief from this dreck. If I see one more team of world-weary, wisecracking twentysomethings with the love lives of tittering teens pursuing a serial killer, I may kick in the TV screen. On the other hand, since I work in a bookstore, I’m sure the current programming trend can only be good for our business. Remember when cable offered an intelligent alternative? Now it’s vampires and . . . more serial killers.

Bob Carlson

Garden Grove