a network standard dialect?

Television and its desire for wide-communication, its self created problems and misunderstanding of humanity, an argument against a network standard:

The termination of the dialectical concept of a "network standard," while far from taking place in American culture, would be beneficial to the development of language in children and society as a whole and would further reflect upon our differences in American life.

First, a "network standard" for sounds of language attempts to homogenize society into one standard that does away with diverse cultures. Analyzing the concept of a "network standard" culturally, leads myself to believe the network standard would serve businesses, corporations and advertisers (all who's primary interest lies in consuming) primarily, and adversely affect regional cultures in the United States who could not adapt to the network standard of sound. A network standard creates a consumer environment in the case of television, that is easier to market towards, demographically speaking.

Second, a case for this reasoning rests in second language learning in post-pubescent teens/young adults; when learning a second language the hardest aspect and last to be learned is the sound of that language. While language is seen as a phenomenon in that its stages of development are universal and innate in children--what makes language a true phenomenon are its variations in sound within different regions of the United States. Often, these sound variations are tied strongly to the overall culture in the specific region, working to convey deep emotions in the human need for expression.

Third, children with language development problems and in need of professional assistance would not be primarly learning a network standard. This in turn creates a possible isolation from the group or community's dialect specific to the child's region of inhabitance. Termination of or ignoring these variations on sound would in some cases cause a segregation of that sub-group from a majority.

While as whole, a "network standard" may improve communication, a "network standard" rejects the idea of the individual and subjectivity, of different cultures and seems to take an ignorant stance on a human's ability to understand different dialects in order to communicate effectively.