Comments on: Less TV? Go ahead. Make my day. http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/05/23/less-tv-go-ahead-make-my-day/ Where media and technology meet Mon, 20 May 2013 23:34:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: John C Abell http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/05/23/less-tv-go-ahead-make-my-day/comment-page-1/#comment-395834 John C Abell Sun, 27 May 2012 14:30:36 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=34803#comment-395834 @LBK2: To me this is supply and demand in the purest sense, which is why the Britt mentality is a so what. The real fear that Big TV has is that the audience will disappear (um, faster than it already is). Threaten us with less bad TV because you've ruined the advertising model with over-saturation? Yes, please. @LBK2: To me this is supply and demand in the purest sense, which is why the Britt mentality is a so what. The real fear that Big TV has is that the audience will disappear (um, faster than it already is). Threaten us with less bad TV because you’ve ruined the advertising model with over-saturation? Yes, please.

]]> By: LBK2 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/05/23/less-tv-go-ahead-make-my-day/comment-page-1/#comment-395466 LBK2 Thu, 24 May 2012 17:27:17 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=34803#comment-395466 Well said John. This is not the first time networks have professed a belief that we are obligated to watch commercials nor the first time they have tried make it law. It's been an ongoing bone of contention since the first home VCRs. The entertainment industry continues to insist it is somehow vital to our welfare, like water or food and it continues to run smack into the reality that it isn't. Well said John.

This is not the first time networks have professed a belief that we are obligated to watch commercials nor the first time they have tried make it law.

It’s been an ongoing bone of contention since the first home VCRs.

The entertainment industry continues to insist it is somehow vital to our welfare, like water or food and it continues to run smack into the reality that it isn’t.

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