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Commercials Are The Real
Content |
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The following is from a
frustrated viewer of cable TV's so-called educational
programming. |
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"I have written you
before so I don't know why I bother. I wrote because I
don't feel anyone who pays for the Discovery, History,
Science and other so-called learning channels ARE NOT
getting what we pay for. That is, unless of course you
feel we like constant repeats and shows that have
nothing to do with the respective channels. |
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These channels advertise
"all new" oddities and program content. I checked and
every one is a repeat. If you can't come up with new
shows, why don't you take these channels off? If you
can't provide new shows for those of us who would like
to learn something, why do you run this programming over
and over? We cannot learn watching the same thing over
and and over and over and...." |
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Publisher's Note:
Does anyone still recall the promises of the cable
companies during the latter years of the 1970s? They
urged Americans to contact their Congressional
representatives to demand that they pass legislation
allowing for development of cable channels. In return
these companies promised all Americans that they would
provide commercial-free, high quality programming with
wide-ranging content. Americans would pay one flat fee
and receive uninterrupted entertainment. |
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Instead, today Americans
receive repetitive reruns -- that are as redundant as
that phrasing. Included with this valueless content are
more commercials than a person would care to watch even
if he were stranded on Gilligan's Island. |
