Sponsor |  barkingspider | Jan 12, 1:09pm | 30) Do you know where that £140 tax revenue goes? Is it just a general slush fund for the BBC?
While I have your attention, Do y'all in England have to get a new telly or a set-top device to view digital television? -We're going all digital here in the USA come `2009. |
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Sponsor | | remixboy | Jan 12, 4:44pm | actually we all pay for commercial TV..in every product we buy, a % goes to advertising budget..that's when people say commercial TV is free I just smile at them..lol
The problem with the BBC is the idiots who want to make it a commercial venture..hence they have followed in the footsteps of commercial TV and make idiot programmes for the idiots..Public service broadcasting was never designed to make money, but make decent programmes. |
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|  akaginajudd | Feb 8, 6:13pm | Most of US here are aware of how the television is used to influence us into thinking things we wouldn't think if it weren't for this particular medium. Once we are made aware of how the news manipulates elections, or how Seinfeld can make us associate an Arab soup maker with Nazi's, all of these seemingly harmless images and messages are identified and discarded from our brains. We aren't so influenced as the viewer who isn't aware of how those who run the media work.
BUT I ask those of you who know that much about the evils of television to research DARPA acronym for Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, and "harmonics". Namely how harmonics are used via television. |
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| | SatyrSatellite | Feb 20, 6:18am | already 'tubeless' since december 1999
took me some time, but now i can finally say
i am dependent on no one else's prejudiced pov
but my own (*)
takes plenty of effort to keep that down alone
(*) all online bias excluded ;o)) |
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| | csny | Mar 22, 10:44am | | reading is fundamental(spellcheck)in many languages |
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Sponsor | | fugitive247 | Mar 24, 8:27am | My family has been subscription-free since October. When our contract expired I put my foot down. No friggin' more! Hubster and the kids weren't thrilled. Too bad.
For ages I've hated how television turns otherwise sensible adults into mindless drones. Don't get me started on the negative impact television can have on the cognitive development of young, impressionable minds.
Hubster keeps jockeying for at least a free-to-air system. Shyeaaah, riiiiight. Even if one's not paying those insane subscription fees to acquire the media it does not negate the fact (for this family) that television solely for television's sake is still a losing proposition.
Besides, any decent programs which used to be broadcast went the way of the dinosaurs long ago. I'm not 100% anti-television. However, I am definitely anti-consumerist, anti-propaganda and anti-bullsh!t. |
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