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.