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On "The Ring of Fire" this afternoon, they brought up that the reason everything we see on the television is RW propaganda is because the big advertising dollars like from PHARMA and other industries won't pay for programs that have left wing pundits and spin (the truth actually). So they don't care if the numbers are low. They just want to make sure that what news does get aired is favorable to their interests.
I actually did a Nielson Family survey a couple of months ago for a week. I think they didn't like what I was watching because it was all things like the Comedy Channel, the SciFi channel, HBO and LinkTV. Then I dissed CNN and the other cable shows in a place you can write your views in. I said that I used to watch CNN all the time until it became the Bush propaganda channel. They didn't ask me to do another survey, but I get it now.
:grr:
So what do we have to do to bring real news back to television? We need a law that says advertisers can't determine the content of any news programs, or better yet, maybe we can convince HBO to use one of their channels to put up commercial free twenty four hour news as part of their package. I would pay extra. I know it would be bad for the poor who can't afford HBO, but maybe those of us better off could adopt a viewer or viewers like DUers are adopted by other DUers to get a gold star. We have to do something about this awful situation.
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