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Originally Posted by AFCM
It is crap. Task yourself with finding ANY television news broadcast that is critical of ANY of their sponsors. Reporters only report what the sponsors want them to report, and the agency will report anything in any manner that gets them more sponsors. There you have it. News agencies are sellouts, and what you're watching is crap.
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That's why the now-defunct relationship between the Oklahoman's and News9 websites was such an unholy alliance. They advertised it as the "combined" power of both newsgathering sources when, in reality, it has to end up as the lowest common denominator of both - for precisely the same reasons.
Sadly, the same reasons go back to why you won't find anything adverse about cars, automotive dealers, or the broader industry in the newspapers, because auto advertisements make up the overwhelming portion of such papers' classifieds.
rwood, yes, you are missing the point. You were diminishing the validity of the complaint about interruptions on the basis of what was being watched at the time, eg it was just "The View," or "All My Children," or whatever. The point is that's a lousy basis on which to argue the relative "validity" of an interruption. You and I and everyone else have distinct tastes in what we watch; the point isn't finding shows that "merit" interruption, its about ceasing the practice altogether.
About the only respite from commercials and interruptions is on pay movie services, I guess...I remember that cable - many years ago - was pushed as an "advertising-free" alternative to "regular" TV....pretty laughable now...
-sd