what's on TV?

[cladking]

You're the last of a dying breed, Clad, I didn't think there was still such a thing as antennas. I haven't seen one in a very long time.

I got about 25 channels with nothing on.

Damned if I'll pay $100 a month to have another 300 channels with nothing on.

A lot of my friends have antenna and almost never watch. One of my friends took his working TV out since it was just clutter. The news is all lies and the shows are non-stop ads. About the only thing I can stomach is the rare time PBS puts something on and the oldies channel. The oldies channel is excellent (at least they try). They put on uncut episodes when they can find them. This is my biggest problem with commercial TV; the ads are pervasive and never ending. They run them to the exclusion of even tornado warnings more than they put the show on. Then the show flashes name brands as paid advertising as th channel runs their ad superimposed right on the show. Then the bastards will run a streaming ad for something else.

My only use for ads is to know what not to buy. 85 minutes a year is enough.

TV died about '95 and everyone forgot to bury it.

Now it looks like government is going to prop it up by running endless "public service" spots. My tax dollars will be pumped in because companies are finally coming to understand people quit watching their damn ads when someone invented the remote.

There might be a lot more of us than you think.

The damn telephone will be the next thing to go. It's already dying. You either get one implanted or go to one of the $20 a year things. The world is getting crazier every year. I'm too stubborn to adapt. I get my news on the net or al Jazeera. The Ruskies used to say there's no news in Tass (it means "truth") and no truth in Investia (it means "news"). This is like our media except the Ruskies didn't have to watch 85 minutes of ads to get their lies and history.