> But not a word about the effects of commercials on
> society, of the pervasive "get anything you want whenever you want it"
> attitude,
Your right, however I haven't seen a tv commercial for about 15 years
now allthough I do watch TV.
Being rich is being satisfied with the things you got. I don't need the
products they want to get rid of as fast as possible.
> One of the secrets of our personal happiness is that we don't have a
> television.
> The time we save is precious. TV removes meaning and joy from
> lives and replaces them with whatever programming sells commercials for
> whatever products make corporations rich.
I do not agree, I often watch German TV, lots of nature in its programming
and the same goes for some NBC and BBC programms.
Newsreports never give any backgroundviews so I use the newspapers
for news and not the short "must look good because we're inbetween 2
commercials" TV newsbulletins.
TV news is very good at showing people getting in and out of cars :-)
Some movies give lots of landscape and BBC and some others give worldwide
reports and backgrounds.
(BBC one and two are commercialfree)
But if someone steels my TVset I will probably not miss it anymore after a
few days.
>
bfn
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