When people turn off the tv they become more engaged with their immediate family and community.

If tv is the only source of what you are callng "news" then it will be the best thing that ever happened to them..

My life is so much better since I pared down my tv watching to a couple hours a week.

Seriously, what a sorry excuse for a cause. There are plenty of emergency alert sources, from radio, to sirens, to Churches, to neighbors to the children and grandchildren who are more tuned in.

Get a grip on yourselves.

we almost voted this BS down so they took the voting rights away!!

ha ha ha ha ha!

Pfff.... leftists defending the idiot box?

I "get" the background and the technological reasons to switch to digital TV and all that. But honestly, how many millions of our tax dollars are being wasted on this "dear god we need to drop everything and help everyone switch because lord knows we can't trust them to handle their own affairs!" game? Seriously. Why should we care? It's only television.

Having to hear every four seconds about how it's going to be some kind of goddamned tragedy because some portion of lazy motherfuckers sitting on a couch somewhere can't be arsed to replace or upgrade their own equipment (or get someone to do it for them!) when we've been listening to the same goddamned twitter about this switch for three fucking years is really wearing thin. Now we're going to have to hear three more years of whining about how the new digital TV is no good, so-and-so can't get such-and-such channel anymore, and woe is me, my reception sucks now. I have a better idea: Why don't we just turn the whole thing the fuck off? I quit watching TV when I was a teenager and honestly, my life hasn't been any less enriched because of it. I have a TV, but it's an old analog one that I use as a monitor for my game consoles. I don't have cable, I don't have a converter box, and I don't even have a damn antenna for the thing. I don't care, and I don't see why anyone else should care enough to be treating this like some kind of disaster.

Way back when this digital switchover was announced in the first place I held the vain hope that some portion of people might wake up and decide to do something else with themselves instead of park in front of their (soon to be useless) TV. Like, I dunno. Read a book. Learn some stuff on the Internet. Go the fuck outside for some reason other than to go to work or to the liquor store. Interact with real people. Learn something about the world.

I don't characterize myself as a very smart person compared to most, and I'm fairly young and therefore am automatically assumed to lack experience. Yet somehow I am continually amazed at the sheer ignorance that many people I meet display about absolutely everything. Science, literature, fiction, history, geography, mechanics, anything. Yet they can recite to me chapter and verse what happened on Survivor or American Idol. The one that gets me is how they can complain to me about the war in Iraq, yet they don't actually know where Iraq is. These are people who are older than me -- people who should be "old enough to know better." Yet the only thing they know about the world is what they see through the damned box at the other end of the living room.

And it pisses me off. These people don't need pampering. Let them flounder. Maybe it'll force them to learn something about the world, even if it's just some tiny inconsequential thing that they need to hook up to get their fucking idiot box working again.

TV is all that's left? Really?!? There are places with local TV broadcasts but no mail? No phones? No AM/FM radio? No CB/FRS/GMRS? No shortwave radio?!? No libraries?!?

When I moved toward central IL, there were no phone lines, no cable, and no DSL available in my neighborhood. I got online via a wireless ISP.

When I lived in far northern Wisconin, there was no TV, mail, phone, cable, etc. There was significant poverty in the area with many of the people I lived with needing food aid to survive. Yet when a couple dozen people pool their resources, an Internet connection from a rural ISP comes out to less than a dollar a month per person. It isn't that hard. You can get online using computers that you dumpster. You can pay for the connection (collectively) for less than you can find looking for change on the street. In any urban or suburban area (where the overwhelming majority of the population actually lives), you can leach off of someone's wifi for free.

The only place I know with TV but no net connection is in prison.

TV keeps people in the grip of the corporate propaganda machine. Leftists should be trying to free them, not keep them addicted.

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