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Old 5 Jun 2017, 08:09 (Ref:3738725)   #285
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I think you're off on a bit of a tangent there. The bulk of the TV audience also includes everybody who is older, not just teenagers. The fact is, the majority of people are not interested in technical details, and that's how it's always been. If you go back 20 years to 1997, ITV were doing the F1 and it was extremely dumbed down, and these "limp wristed teens" weren't even born then. Silly dumbed down TV has existed for decades because that's what a lot of people want.

We're in this ridiculous situation where we give kids exams and when they get great results, we pretend the exams are easier and say that kids don't have real world skills. Well changing a tyre is a great skill to have, it's not going to pay the bills. But programming does, and it pays pretty well too.

Teens of today are no different to the teens of before. Some can change tyres. Some cannot. Some can program. Some cannot. Some like physical things. Some do not. Everyone is different. TV has never changed - technical stuff has always been niche, otherwise a documentary about a Le Mans team would get more views than X-Factor.

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