Have you "cut the cord" on EXPENSIVE cable TV? Why or why not? A PBS guide

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73. Cable T.V. - scam of the century

Some younger "lefties" ( bless each and every one of you ) weren't born yet when a collusion
of "vulture capitalists" formulated their plan to rip off American television viewers. These con artists
knew nobody would pay a fee to watch programs ABC, NBC CBS and PBS all provided for free. So,
they rubbed their greedy hands together and decided what kind of bait they needed to get the public
hooked on their product: Promise the marks COMMERCIAL-FREE BROADCASTING! No more annoying
interruptions in the middle of a good movie! No more obnoxious sales pitches for toilet paper and dog
food! Thousands of trusting souls signed up for cable television and although most of the channels
were duller than dirt, we marveled at the amazingly low cost of enjoying the few shows we liked for
only $9.95 per month!
Now of course, cable and direct T.V. stations feature dozens of eardrum-blasting commercials for every
five minutes of actual programming and the cost we pay for enduring this maddening onslaught gets
more and more exorbitant. Do I resent big corporations for making too much money? No. What makes
me want to tear up my unopened cable bill and toss it a toilet is the fact that I am being relentlessly
and steadily robbed. A multi-million dollar business enterprise, conceived in dishonesty and already
blessed with an huge profit margin, has left me and other customers no choice but to keep rewarding
a company for cheating us.